How to earn and redeem Avios on Philippine Airlines flights

Every so often, a new airline turns up on the Avios partner list that’s worth a second look. If Asia is on your travel wish list, Philippine Airlines (PAL) should be one to pay attention to. Starting 18 May 2026, you can use Avios to book PAL flights through Qatar Airways Privilege Club, and the whole process can be done online. Given how thin British Airways' own Asia network has become, this is a great addition if you’ve been chasing Avios flights to Asia.

Before you get carried away planning a Manila stopover, though, it's worth knowing how redemptions work, because the mechanics here aren't quite the ones you're used to. We've dug into the fine print on Philippine Airlines Avios bookings so you don't have to.

Here's what we found.

How Does the Partnership Work?

Philippine Airlines isn't part of any airline alliance, which has historically made it a difficult carrier to book with points. Even with the new partnership with IAG Loyalty, Avios redemptions are only available through Qatar Airways Privilege Club, and cash flights with the airline won't be credited to a British Airways Club account either.

Philippine Airlines and Qatar Airways also have a broader partnership, including codeshares and connections via Doha. For points purposes, though, Qatar Privilege Club is where you’ll need to book.

How to Book Flights

The only setup required is linking your British Airways Club and Qatar Privilege Club accounts. After that, your BA Avios are available to use when you book, so there's no separate transfer to worry about.

Where it gets less convenient is the household rule, something worth knowing among Avios airline partners in general. Qatar Privilege Club can only draw on a personal Avios balance. Anyone who's been pooling points with a partner for exactly this kind of trip will need the balance sitting under their own name.

If your Avios are sitting with British Airways, there's no need to worry, as BA Avios and Qatar Avios are fully interchangeable, instant, fee-free, and reversible in either direction, as often as needed. Avios parked with Iberia Club, Aer Lingus AerClub, Finnair Plus, or Loganair can also make the journey, just routed through British Airways Club first.

It's also worth sorting your accounts sooner rather than later. BA already requires your account to be 30 days old before it'll link to Qatar Privilege Club, and Qatar introduced the same rule in June 2026. Leave it until the night before you book, and you'll be waiting another month.

Which Destinations Does Philippine Airlines Fly To?

Philippine Airlines flies to 30 destinations within the Philippines and 42 international ones across 22 countries. It’s not the widest network in Asia, but it covers plenty of ground, including:

• North America: Chicago, Honolulu, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver
• Middle East: Doha, Dubai, Riyadh
• Oceania: Brisbane, Guam, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Papua New Guinea, and the Northern Mariana Islands
• Asian travel destinations: Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Palau, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Philippine Airlines doesn't fly its own metal into Europe, but the wider partnership now extends that far anyway. Connections via Doha can take you to more than 20 European cities through Qatar's codeshare, including Paris, Rome, and Frankfurt, so a points itinerary that starts on PAL and finishes on Qatar into Europe isn't off the table the way it once was. What it does mean, either way, is a new way to hop around once already in the region, plus a side door into North America, which means you don’t have to rely solely on Qatar's own one-stop service via Doha.

What Do the Redemptions Cost?

Qatar has done away with a fixed award chart for partner redemptions, so Philippine Airlines Avios prices are generally higher than they used to be. Premium Economy doesn't appear to be available with Avios at the moment, so your choices are usually Economy or Business. And they’re reasonable for short regional hops:

• Manila to Taipei costs 12,000 Avios in Economy and 24,000 in Business.
• Manila to Singapore comes in at 17,000 and 34,000, respectively.
• Manila to Seoul, Osaka, or Tokyo costs 18,000 and 36,000, respectively.

The picture looks rather different on longer flights. Manila to Honolulu costs 50,000 Avios in Economy and 100,000 in Business. Flights to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, or Vancouver are steeper still at 55,000 and 110,000. By the time you're looking at Toronto or New York, you're into 77,250 and 154,500 territory, and Qatar isn't shy about passing on Philippine Airlines' carrier-imposed surcharges either, so the taxes on these longer legs aren't exactly pocket change.

The lesson for anyone hunting the best Avios redemptions in Asia: keep it short-haul.

What most first-timers don’t get is that connecting itineraries don’t price as a single neat fixed-cost award; each leg is charged separately, and it adds up. A Singapore to Manila to Los Angeles Business Class routing costs 144,000 Avios plus taxes.

To book a connection like this on a single ticket with bags through-checked, skip the standard one-way or return search and reach for the multi-city tool on the Qatar Airways website instead, entering each segment one by one. Not the slickest booking experience, but it gets the job done.

How to Use the Partnership to Your Benefit

Our advice is to avoid getting distracted by regional routes. Instead, look at the transpacific Business Class for availability. PAL operates up to three daily flights from Manila to Los Angeles, plus regular services to San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, New York, and Honolulu, on a mix of Airbus A350-900s and the newer A350-1000s, both equipped with 1-2-1 Business Class seating.

That's the case for keeping this one in the back pocket and not treating it as the first port of call among Avios airline partners. The long-haul pricing on these long routes is steep, but Philippine Airlines may be useful when you need transpacific Business Class availability on the dates when Qatar's own Doha routing simply won't cooperate. Sometimes the win is less about getting a bargain and more about getting a seat at all.

How to Earn Avios on Philippine Airlines?

The partnership works both ways. If you buy a cash ticket with Philippine Airlines, you can credit it to a Qatar Privilege Club account and earn Avios. How many you'll earn depends on your fare. Splash out on Business Class in C, D, or J, and you'll earn 150%, while I or Z earn 125%.

Most standard Economy fares, including Y, S, L, M and H, earn 100%, but the cheaper your ticket, the fewer Avios you'll collect. Q, V, B, and X earn 75%, T, E, and K earn 50%, and the cheapest U and O fares earn just 10%.

Crediting Philippine Airlines flights to Avios makes more sense for most collectors than earning Mabuhay Miles. The latter simply don’t stretch as far once you're outside the Philippines.

What's the Verdict?

No need to oversell it: Philippine Airlines isn't about to dethrone the usual go-to options for Avios flights to Asia, and it certainly isn't whisking anyone from Europe to Manila anytime soon. Longer routes are priced towards the upper end of what's reasonable for a partner redemption, and connecting flights can become surprisingly expensive since each leg is priced separately.

But as a fully online way to get around Asian travel destinations once you're already in the region, and as a dependable fallback for transpacific Business Class when the usual suspects come up dry, it's a great tool worth keeping in the kit. Just don't make it the first one you reach for.

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