30% transfer bonus to Qatar Avios from Citi ThankYou

Those with Citi ThankYou Rewards to redeem can get a 30% transfer bonus when transferring ThankYou Rewards to Qatar Airways Avios between June 1 and June 30, 2026. This is a bonus offered on the Qatar Airways end, so you won’t see this in your Citi ThankYou account, but you will later receive the 30% bonus from Qatar. The catch here is that the bonus Avios are awarded to your Qatar Airways Privileged Club account by July 31st, 2026. This won’t be useful if you’re looking to use that bonus right away.

The Deal

• From June 1 to June 30, 2026, Qatar Airways Privilege Club is offering a 30% transfer bonus when you transfer points from participating programs to your Qatar Airways Privilege Club account. For US-based members, the key partner will be Citi ThankYou Rewards.
• Direct link to this deal

Key Terms

• This campaign commences on 1st June 2026, 00:00hrs (GMT+3), and ends on 30th June 2026, 23:59hrs (GMT+3) (“Campaign Period”).
• This campaign is open to all Privilege Club Members who are also customers of Participating Partners and have Rewards Points.
• Privilege Club Members will earn bonus Avios on converting Rewards Points into Avios.
• The bonus Avios awarded will be 30% of the number of base Avios converted in a single transaction.
• The bonus Avios will be calculated per transaction and not on the cumulative sum of Avios converted from Rewards Points during the Campaign Period, accumulated transactions don’t qualify.
• The conversion of Rewards Points to Avios is subject to the conversion ratio and terms and conditions set forth by the relevant Participating Partner.
• Bonus Avios will be credited as per the transaction date notified by the relevant Participating Partner to Qatar Airways Privilege Club.
• The Participating Partners are Ahlibank, Aljazira Bank, ALL Accor, AlRayan Bank, Bank Albilad, Boubyan Bank, BSF Jana, Capital on Tap, CIMB, Citibank, Commercial Bank, Doha Bank, Dubai Islamic Bank, Dukhan Bank, Emirates Islamic, FlyerT, HeyMax, HSBC, Hyundai Amex Centurion Design Cards, ICSAB+, IHG Hotels & Resorts, Kuwait Finance House, Mashreq Vantage, mokafaa, National Bank of Oman, Ooredoo, PartsPay, pay.com.au, QIIB, Shangri-La Circle, Signature Business Rewards, Symbion Elite Rewards, UnionBank, UOB, Vodafone Qatar, WalaOne and World of Hyatt. For more details, refer to the Participating Partners’ pages.
• Bonus Avios earned as part of this campaign will be credited to a Member’s Privilege Club account by 31st July 2026.
• See landing page for full terms

Quick Thoughts

As noted at the top, this is a bonus being offered by Qatar Airways Privilege Club. The biggest catch is that the bonus Avios are awarded separately later on. That is to say that Qatar will take the cumulative sum of the points you transfer from qualifying partners between June 1st and June 30th, figure your 30% bonus, then award the 30% bonus by July 31st, 2026.

Since you don’t know exactly when you’re going to receive the bonus, you can’t really take advantage of this transfer bonus in order to lock in an award you see available right now, since you don’t know whether that award will be available when the bonus comes through. That’s my least favorite form of transfer bonus, since you’ll potentially end up with points you don’t actually need.

That said, if you ave a near-term need to book an award with Avios anyway and you are going to transfer one-to-one to one of the Avios programs, you might as well make it Citi ThankYou to Qatar Airways Avios, book your award, and then end up with what will essentially be a nice rebate in the form of the bonus Avios that show up later on. For those who use Avios quite frequently, that’ll be useful. Keep in mind that Avios is one of the unique programs that serves several different airlines, so you can actually move your Avios from Qatar Airways to British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Aer Lingus, or Logan Air. That makes Avios a more useful tool in the sense that you can take advantage of the sweet spots from multiple programs. As a result, this transfer bonus is even more useful than it may appear on the surface.

Qatar Airways does have some sweet spots of its own, particularly the fact that they release additional business class award space to their own members that you won’t necessarily find available through other programs. If you’re looking to fly Qatar Q Suites, then this transfer bonus could certainly help you get there, particularly if it’s a booking you’re considering at some point down the road.

That said, I always caution against speculatively transferring points because you never know when a program is going to devalue. Our advice is usually to transfer only when you have a near-term, specific use case in mind. However, with this transfer bonus being offered later on, this lends itself more to those who would transfer speculatively. For those who use Avios frequently, a speculative transfer might not be a bad deal. Again, that’s a little easier to consider with Avios since you do have the flexibility to move them from one Avios program to another, so you’re not necessarily locked into one airline program that could devalue at any time.

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