Unable to transfer Avios from BA to QR
Today I transferred Membership Rewards from Amex to my British Airways Executive Club account. The Avios arrived successfully and are showing in my BA account.
My BA and Qatar Privilege Club accounts have been linked correctly for a long time, and my Qatar account even shows the combined Avios balance. However, whenever I try to transfer the Avios from BA to Qatar, it fails. I even tried to book a reward seat and pay using my Avios sitting directly in my BA account but it also doesn’t work either.
The error message I get on the Avios website is “Something went wrong. Please try again.” and the one on the QR app/website tells me to contact British Airways.
I’ve already called BA Executive Club and they confirmed they can’t manually transfer the Avios and have raised a support ticket, but they said it could take 4–7 days to hear back.
The problem is that I’m trying to book Qatar reward flights and I’m worried the award availability will disappear while I wait.
I’ve seen a few posts mentioning that BA sometimes places a temporary security hold after an Amex → BA transfer, and that it can take around 7–10 days to clear. Has anyone here had this happen recently and did you manage to find a quicker workaround?