Buy Qatar Airways Avios with a 40% Bonus

Qatar Airways occasionally puts on promotions for buying points with its buy, gift, or transfer Avios feature. 

While buying points speculatively might not be the best idea, promotions such as this can be useful for topping up your account for an upcoming redemption or strategically scoring premium cabins at a bargain compared to the cash price.

With the latest promotion, Qatar Airways is selling Avios with a 40% bonus, which can be a great way to score a flight on the renowned Qsuites product at a steep discount. 

Buy Qatar Airways Avios with a 40% Bonus

From now until 8:59pm GMT on February 1, 2024, Qatar Airways is offering a 40% bonus on purchased Avios.

This time, you’ll receive a different bonus depending on how many Avios you buy, structured as follows:

• 3,000–10,000 Avios: 15% bonus
• 11,000–25,000 Avios: 20% bonus
• 26,000+ Avios: 40% bonus

Normally, Qatar Airways sells points at a base price that ranges from 2.3–2.8 cents per point (USD), depending on how many Avios you buy. As is the case with purchased British Airways Avios, the price lowers as you buy more points, but flattens out after around 25,000 points.

If you were to take advantage of the 40% bonus promotion, you’re reducing the acquisition cost to just 1.64 cents per point (USD) on the low end.

It’s worth noting that you need to have at least 1,000 Avios in your Qatar Airways Privilege Club account before you’re eligible for any of the buy, gift, or transfer points features on offer.

We value Qatar Airways Avios at 1.5 cents per point (USD). Therefore, the cost of acquisition through this promotion at the lowest rate is above our target valuation, but not by much.

Looking back at previous offers, a 40% bonus is a fair margin lower than some of the higher bonus offers we’ve seen. However, Qatar Airways recently lowered the base price of purchased Avios, and the price now works out to be lower than what was available during recent 50% bonus promotions.

Keep in mind that you can also transfer Avios from British Airways Executive Club to Qatar Airways Privilege Club at a 1:1 ratio. British Airways tends to put on more promotions than Qatar Airways, but if you’re a really big fan of the Oneworld alliance, you can take advantage of promotions from both programs to circumvent annual caps on purchased Avios.

As with all loyalty programs,…