British Airways and BMI announced back in May that you could transfer BMI Diamond Club miles to British Airways Avios and vice versa starting on July 3rd, 2012. BMI just sent an email explaining the process.
I already did the status transfer from BMI (Gold) to British Airways (Gold) last month and that process was flawless, although not instantaneous. The status transfer took only few days. I decided to check out, how I could transfer some Diamond Club miles to Avios now that the transfer too is up and running.
First, I had some trouble finding the “Combine My Avios” link on my “Manage My Account” section of BA’s website.
The screen informing about the process was very straightforward and I decided to proceed.
Next I was prompted to fill out my BMI Diamond Club number and associated password. And then I was hoping for the best….
Here the problems started. The BA’s website just returned page not found-error message.
Decided to try again. This time combining Avios not available-error message popped up.
I thought that for sure BA and BMI had tested this few times before releasing and was presented yet another error message. This time my combining Avios was supposedly already open.
Maybe the problem was Firefox? No. Internet Explorer returned the 404 page as well.
Oh well. Nothing happening around BMI and BA can surprise me at this point. I am sure that the tool will be up in a day or two, but getting this right from the get-go shouldn’t have been too big of a task.
I have just tried to transfer my points but get this message. I can’t get through on the helpline to BA as it is too busy and they suggest I call back. There doesn’t seem to be an email address for technical issues.
It’s not ideal is it!
Your session has timed out, please log in again
Su sesion ha caducado, por favor, acceda de nuevo
Ihre Sitzung ist abgelaufen, bitte melden Sie sich erneut
Votre session a expire, s’il vous plait vous connecter a nouveau
La sessione e scaduta, si prega di accedere di nuovo
I till try again in couple of days as I don’t really need to have the Avios on my BA Executive Account right now. I do need some, however, next month.
Must say it worked flawlessly for me on first attempt!
Lucky you!
i just keep getting the message “session timed out log in again” tried yesterday about 6 times and twice tonight ….will maybe try again tomorrow
I am going to retry later tonight to see if it works.
I’ve tried several times over the last couple of days and it keeps telling me my session timed out. BA blue card help line isn’t any good either, called them half a dozen times and they say the lines are to busy and to call back later then cuts me off. Good old BA, maybe they thin we’ll forget about this
I will try it myself in the next hour. Will update the post.