After a lot of doom and gloom in travel recently, this week has all been positive news! (Typical when I am away, in a completely opposite time zone and without Wi-Fi part of the time!).
Today Qatar Airways Privilege Club and ALL – Accor Live Limitless announced the enhancement of their partnership, providing new ways for members to earn both Avios and ALL Reward points, while also fast tracking their tier status. The partnership improves the rewards for members of both Privilege Club and ALL globally, who can now enjoy the benefit of earning both Avios and ALL Reward points upon their first eligible Accor stay or Qatar Airways flight.
Earn Avios on Accor stays
After linking membership accounts, Privilege Club and ALL members will earn up to 1 Avios for every €1 spent on eligible stays at participating Accor hotels, in addition to the usual ALL Reward points. Participating hotels include Raffles, Fairmont, Sofitel, Rixos, SLS, 25 Hours, Movenpick, Pullman and many more. Similarly, Privilege Club and ALL members can additionally earn 1 ALL Reward point for every $2 spent on eligible Qatar Airways flights, alongside the usual Avios.
You can then transfer them over to your BA account if you wish or spend them through the Privilege Club.
Status matching across Qatar and ALL Accor
This is the best news if you have status in ALL Accor.
Elite members of ALLwho have flown on their first eligible Qatar Airways flight, after linking their account with Privilege Club, will get a match to Qatar’s Privilege Club.
Gold members of ALL will be upgraded to Privilege Club Silver membership, granting them travel perks such as priority check-in, extra baggage allowance, lounge access, and more. This is only equivalent to oneworld Ruby, so not worth a lot.
Platinum members of ALL will be upgraded to Privilege Club Gold membership, offering them priority check-in, extra baggage allowance, complimentary seat selection, lounge access, meet and greet service and much more. This is equivalent to BA Silver or oneworld Sapphire, so definitely worth having. It could be worth booking more Accor stays if you are close to making Platinum with them if you don’t have oneworld status.
Diamond members of ALL will be upgraded to Privilege Club Platinum membership, the highest tier in the programme, which will allow members to enjoy enhanced benefits of extra baggage allowance, complimentary seat selection, and lounge access, including access to Al Safwa First Lounge at Hamad International Airport when travelling in Business Class with Qatar Airways. This is equivalent to oneworld emerald or BA Gold, so a big perk of Accor Diamond.
The same will work in reverse;
Following the first eligible international hotel stay with Accor, Privilege Club Gold members will be upgraded to Silver status from ALL, providing extra benefits such as complimentary welcome drinks, priority welcome, late check-out, and more.
Privilege Club Platinum members will be upgraded to Gold Status from ALL, after their first eligible international hotel stay with Accor, granting them guaranteed room availability, complimentary room upgrades, early check-in, late check-out, and more.
You can find more details on the official page here.
Qatar Airways Chief Commercial Officer, Thierry Antinori, said: “At Privilege Club we are constantly striving to achieve excellence by providing a loyalty programme that sets the highest standards for our members. To achieve this, we have taken the strategic decision to enhance our partnership with Accor, expanding benefits for both Privilege Club and ALL – Accor Live Limitless members and granting opportunities for tier fast-track. We are certain that they will enjoy the benefits of this partnership enhancement in some of the world’s most renowned hotel brands and look forward to introducing ALL members to our award-winning services.”
Mehdi Hemici, Chief Loyalty and Partnerships Officer for Accor commented: “We are thrilled to elevate our existing partnership with Qatar Airways by offering additional benefits to our joint members. Through a seamless web or app customer journey, members of ALL and Qatar Airways Privilege Club can easily enroll and get rewarded for each flight and hotel booking. In line with sport being one of our members’ passions, we are also excited to announce this partnership ahead of the upcoming World Cup being held in Qatar.”
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It’s probably worth mentioning that if, like me, anyone signed up to the recent offer that provided 500 bonus Accor points after linking your ALL with AF/KLM, then you won’t be able to link with Qatar, sadly. This is because there needs to be 12-months gap between linking. I tried unlinking my AF/KLM account and it still wouldn’t allow me to link with Qatar Airways. However, reinstating the AF/KLM account worked fine.
Thanks that’s useful information. And annoying for people that would like to swap to Qatar!
There needs to be things like this for new travellers/ young people who haven’t stayed in luxury hotels enough to acquire diamond status.
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