One of the bright spots of Le Club Accorhotels program has been the ability to convert or auto transfer Le Club points to Iberia Avios at the rate of 2 points to 5 Avios. I wrote about a piece about this last month.
Starting on March 1, 2013, the exchange rate will change from 2.5 to 1 Avios per Le Club Accorhotels point. This is a devaluation of 60% for those that convert Le Club points to Iberia Avios. Thanks for LoyaltyLobby reader for spotting this banner on Le Club Spanish website.
Conclusion
This is a rather drastic change for many that have been collecting Le Club points for converting them to Iberia Avios. But getting 2.5 Iberia Avios for every Le Club point was a very good deal compared to other airline options.
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I spotted the same banner a few days ago for BA Avios. That would mean a better exchange rate for BA instead.
You could have always moved Avios between Iberia and BA accounts. They allow that.
Trying to transfer, looks like for Iberia it is only possible to transfer in increments of 3,000, either by manual transfer or automatic, I wish I could clean out the 1,500 I will have left over.
I was in the same situation as you but this helped me get my points to Iberia: http://headforpoints.com/2013/01/26/some-you-win-important-flying-blue-accor-hilton-gold-updates/#comment-6792
They took about a week and a half to post for me.
Got my 3,000 to 7,500 Iberia Avios, now stuck in Iberia unless I leave my BA household account, so I will let them sit for the time being. http://boardingarea.com/blogs/rapidtravelchai/2013/02/18/my-week-in-points-febraury-3-16-deltas-partners-get-hosed-last-minute-accor-to-iberia/