Just did my first ever award travel flight booking using this video. I was able to book Iberia direct flight from Puerto Rico to Madrid on business class for my parents transferring from C1-BA-IB using this guide. Just created the IB account yesterday so maybe the 90day thing is bogus. Regardless super excited and got the one way ticket at CPP of 20! Thanks so much for the guide, a very frightening/stressing process made easier with this video.
Thanks for sharing your experience with the Iberia 90 day condition! That’s so awesome you booked this for your parents and I’m honored my content helped!
Hi! I just saw your comment on my page and decided to check out your channel! Great videos, and so nice to meet someone else who is relatively new to this space! :) And this video is so timely for me. I strongly dislike Iberia haha (just got downgraded on a flight and have hit a brick wall at every turn trying to get some compensation). So I have been trying to transfer my Avios out of Iberia and park it with BA for now. Anyway, I was getting every error message known to man from both sides, and I tried what you did, and was able to transfer to/from Aer Lingus, but still not to/from Iberia. So for the 1000th time, I went to Iberia's website to try again and this time got an error message that said my address wasn't in their system (trust me it was before haha), so I went in and entered it again, and this time I could connect and transfer. Yay!!! Iberia's site is just riddled with bugs, but I guess I caught them on a good day today 😂 Anyway, sorry for the long message, but I thought you might find it interesting.
Hi! I'm glad you were able to get it to work! I had been trying to make this video for FOREVER but dreaded going through this process to figure it out. I hope the comments section will just collect everyone's story on how they get unstuck, so thank you for the long message! And I just watched the video you made about it, what a nightmare! I had a friend who flew back from Spain recently, and luckily his trip went smoothly. I was sure to ask him as soon as he got back because I had heard some horror stories about it really being hit or miss.
@@NurseMichaelTravels yes, I had read a lot of bad reviews and decided to take my chances, but clearly that backfired 😂 If they handled things professionally and compensated me as dictated by EU261, I would have tried again in the future, but they have been impossible to deal with after the fact, so I take it as a lesson learned 😅
@@Xavier_ID. yup! Always recommend to make that account ahead of time. Virgin Atlantic is another one to make as well, they have like a 2-3 day hold until you can book award flights.
That’s incredibly frustrating. Does transferring to Qatar and/or Finnair work? If transferring to Avios hadn’t worked for me, my next step would’ve been to contact customer service.
@@NurseMichaelTravelsI tried logging into Qatar and that worked. I think transferring to Qatar would work but my avios are in my Aer Lingus account. I would probably call them
Thank you! And Hmm it just crashes in general or gives you an error message? If it just times out and crashes, I would try to go to settings and clear your cache and cookies, and/or try a different browser than what you’re using: Safari, Chrome, Internet explorer, etc.
@@NurseMichaelTravels It gives an error message: "Sorry, there seems to be a technical problem. Please try again in a few minutes, and please contact us if it still doesn't work. We apologise for the inconvenience."
Appreciate this video. I just spent 2 hours trying to figure this out for Iberia. You just saved me a lot of phone calls and emails. Thank you!
You’re welcome! I wanted to make the video that I needed 😂 I’m glad it found you
Just did my first ever award travel flight booking using this video. I was able to book Iberia direct flight from Puerto Rico to Madrid on business class for my parents transferring from C1-BA-IB using this guide. Just created the IB account yesterday so maybe the 90day thing is bogus. Regardless super excited and got the one way ticket at CPP of 20! Thanks so much for the guide, a very frightening/stressing process made easier with this video.
Thanks for sharing your experience with the Iberia 90 day condition!
That’s so awesome you booked this for your parents and I’m honored my content helped!
Super useful, thank you! Glad you figured out how to transfer your Avios to Iberia
You're welcome!
Hi! I just saw your comment on my page and decided to check out your channel! Great videos, and so nice to meet someone else who is relatively new to this space! :) And this video is so timely for me. I strongly dislike Iberia haha (just got downgraded on a flight and have hit a brick wall at every turn trying to get some compensation). So I have been trying to transfer my Avios out of Iberia and park it with BA for now. Anyway, I was getting every error message known to man from both sides, and I tried what you did, and was able to transfer to/from Aer Lingus, but still not to/from Iberia. So for the 1000th time, I went to Iberia's website to try again and this time got an error message that said my address wasn't in their system (trust me it was before haha), so I went in and entered it again, and this time I could connect and transfer. Yay!!! Iberia's site is just riddled with bugs, but I guess I caught them on a good day today 😂 Anyway, sorry for the long message, but I thought you might find it interesting.
Hi! I'm glad you were able to get it to work! I had been trying to make this video for FOREVER but dreaded going through this process to figure it out. I hope the comments section will just collect everyone's story on how they get unstuck, so thank you for the long message!
And I just watched the video you made about it, what a nightmare! I had a friend who flew back from Spain recently, and luckily his trip went smoothly. I was sure to ask him as soon as he got back because I had heard some horror stories about it really being hit or miss.
@@NurseMichaelTravels yes, I had read a lot of bad reviews and decided to take my chances, but clearly that backfired 😂 If they handled things professionally and compensated me as dictated by EU261, I would have tried again in the future, but they have been impossible to deal with after the fact, so I take it as a lesson learned 😅
Good tip on Iberia. Didn’t know about the 90 days. 👍🏼👍🏼
@@Xavier_ID. yup! Always recommend to make that account ahead of time. Virgin Atlantic is another one to make as well, they have like a 2-3 day hold until you can book award flights.
This is useful, thank you. Unfortunately even the Avios Program option gives an error when I try to transfer to AerLingus
That’s incredibly frustrating. Does transferring to Qatar and/or Finnair work?
If transferring to Avios hadn’t worked for me, my next step would’ve been to contact customer service.
@@NurseMichaelTravelsI tried logging into Qatar and that worked. I think transferring to Qatar would work but my avios are in my Aer Lingus account. I would probably call them
Love your videos!! British Airways' websites crashes constantly for me! Any tips??
Thank you! And Hmm it just crashes in general or gives you an error message?
If it just times out and crashes, I would try to go to settings and clear your cache and cookies, and/or try a different browser than what you’re using: Safari, Chrome, Internet explorer, etc.
@@NurseMichaelTravels It gives an error message: "Sorry, there seems to be a technical problem. Please try again in a few minutes, and please contact us if it still doesn't work. We apologise for the inconvenience."
Hmmm yeah my only guess would be to do those browser changes, and contact them if it still persists.
its absolutely impossible to get access to my PIN code for Iberia , how did you manage?
The PIN code should be the password you use to sign in to your Iberia account, are you unable to login at all?
you didn't show how you transferred to iberia
Hi! I followed the steps starting at 1:35 to actually transfer my Avios. Those steps started working AFTER I did a transfer to Aer Lingus
Did not worked for me. Don't really get why....
Dang, that’s so annoying, I would probably try to get ahold of their customer service if you’ve exhausted everything else
Didn't want to go there but I'll have to...
Now need to find time to waist.😔
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@@Xavier_ID. Happy Fourth to ya!
Say you see a transfer bonus on IB and want to use your Avios on QR. Could you go credit card ➡️IB➡️BA➡️QR?
@@jwil4286 exactly right! There’s not a direct way to go from Iberia to Qatar so you would transfer to BA then to QR