Panic over.

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I checked my British Airways Avios account this afternoon and it was empty. This was disconcerting and a little bit odd because yesterday it contained 60831 lovely points and now they were gone. So I chatted for a while with a computer who wasn’t really programmed to deal with vanished Avios points and it wasn’t very helpful but was very polite and wished me a nice afternoon. Then I bethought it a good idea to try and transfer my invisible Avios to my Aer Lingus Avios account. I did, and it worked! I shifted 60,000 points which apparently I no longer possess, and now they have joined up with the points in that account to give a respectable 136536 total, with 831 left in the BA account to keep it open. I’m due another few thousand in a few week time bring me up to 141,000 or so. Panic over, I’m figuring out where I should fly to next to get the points spent before they really do disappear, or I become incapacitated. Do you check on your reward points if you have any or do you just trust that all’s well?