Jan 1, 2014, 5:45 am
Last edit by: EsherFlyer
Current sign-up, referral, spend promotions and retention offers
New member sign ups
British Airways American Express Premium Plus Card:
Collect 25,000 bonus Avios when you spend £3,000 within the first three months of card membership.
British Airways American Express Credit Card:
Collect 9,000 bonus Avios when you spend £1,000 within the first three months of card membership.
Referrals
If you are already a BA American Express card holder (either BA card) and introduce a friend to the BA American Express card, you'll receive a 4,000 Avios bonus once your friend's application is approved.
If you are already a BA American Express card holder (either BA card) and introduce a friend to the Premium Plus card, you'll receive a 9,000 Avios bonus once your friend's application is approved.
If your friend achieves the spend required for the welcome offer on either card they'll receive an additional 1,000 Avios. I.e. 26,000 or 10,000 total bonus Avios for the Premium Plus and Credit Card respectively.
Promotions
Retention offers
Voucher eligible spend
Pretty much everything counts towards the £10,000 (or £20,000) required to earn a 2-4-1 Companion Voucher, including the following which might be unexpected:
A few things that don't:
The online total to the right of the card summary is pretty up to date, and far more useful for tracking spend than what the statements show.
Insurance
Both standard and Premium Plus cards include insurance benefits for goods and services purchased on the card. Full details here and here respectively. Summary of Premium Plus benefit are shown here, with standard card offering same cover unless alternate figure is shown in parentheses:
New member sign ups
British Airways American Express Premium Plus Card:
Collect 25,000 bonus Avios when you spend £3,000 within the first three months of card membership.
British Airways American Express Credit Card:
Collect 9,000 bonus Avios when you spend £1,000 within the first three months of card membership.
Referrals
If you are already a BA American Express card holder (either BA card) and introduce a friend to the BA American Express card, you'll receive a 4,000 Avios bonus once your friend's application is approved.
If you are already a BA American Express card holder (either BA card) and introduce a friend to the Premium Plus card, you'll receive a 9,000 Avios bonus once your friend's application is approved.
If your friend achieves the spend required for the welcome offer on either card they'll receive an additional 1,000 Avios. I.e. 26,000 or 10,000 total bonus Avios for the Premium Plus and Credit Card respectively.
Small print:
You must refer your friend via the referral link provided above to be eligible for this offer.
You may recommend as many friends or family members as you wish but you can only receive a maximum of 45,000 Avios per calendar year for those approved for a Card.
You will receive 4,000 bonus Avios if your friend applies and is approved for the British Airways American Express Credit Card. Your friend will receive 4,000 bonus Avios after they have been approved and spent a minimum of £1,000 on goods and services purchased and charged to their Account within three months of Account opening.
You will receive 9,000 bonus Avios if your friend applies and is approved for the British Airways American Express Premium Plus Card. Your friend will receive 19,000 bonus Avios after they have been approved and spent a minimum of £3,000 on goods and services purchased and charged to their Account within three months of Account opening.
When completing the referral form, you must
(i) select the Card you hold from the list at Step 1 and
(ii) select a card to recommend from those listed at Step 2. If you do not follow this process, you and your friend will not be eligible for the bonus.
If your friend has already applied for any of the British Airways American Express Credit Cards without using this referral, you and your friend will not be eligible for the bonus Avios.
All introductory offers are subject to change, can be withdrawn at any time and are not available if your friend currently holds or has held any other British Airways American Express Credit Cards in the past six months.
You must refer your friend via the referral link provided above to be eligible for this offer.
You may recommend as many friends or family members as you wish but you can only receive a maximum of 45,000 Avios per calendar year for those approved for a Card.
You will receive 4,000 bonus Avios if your friend applies and is approved for the British Airways American Express Credit Card. Your friend will receive 4,000 bonus Avios after they have been approved and spent a minimum of £1,000 on goods and services purchased and charged to their Account within three months of Account opening.
You will receive 9,000 bonus Avios if your friend applies and is approved for the British Airways American Express Premium Plus Card. Your friend will receive 19,000 bonus Avios after they have been approved and spent a minimum of £3,000 on goods and services purchased and charged to their Account within three months of Account opening.
When completing the referral form, you must
(i) select the Card you hold from the list at Step 1 and
(ii) select a card to recommend from those listed at Step 2. If you do not follow this process, you and your friend will not be eligible for the bonus.
If your friend has already applied for any of the British Airways American Express Credit Cards without using this referral, you and your friend will not be eligible for the bonus Avios.
All introductory offers are subject to change, can be withdrawn at any time and are not available if your friend currently holds or has held any other British Airways American Express Credit Cards in the past six months.
Promotions
Retention offers
Voucher eligible spend
Pretty much everything counts towards the £10,000 (or £20,000) required to earn a 2-4-1 Companion Voucher, including the following which might be unexpected:
- Foreign transaction fees
A few things that don't:
- Annual membership fee
- Interest payments
- Transactions under £1 (although you can earn the single Avios
)
The online total to the right of the card summary is pretty up to date, and far more useful for tracking spend than what the statements show.
Insurance
Both standard and Premium Plus cards include insurance benefits for goods and services purchased on the card. Full details here and here respectively. Summary of Premium Plus benefit are shown here, with standard card offering same cover unless alternate figure is shown in parentheses:
- Purchase protection: £2,500
- Refund protection: £300 (£200) per item
- Flight delay / cancellation / overbooking / missed: £200 (£0)
- Baggage delay (6+ hours): £750 (£0)
- Baggage delay (48+ hours): £1,000 (£0), additional to 6 hours benefit
- Accident: £250,000 (£75,000)
- Hijack (24+ hours): £1,500
- Hijack (72+ hours): £3,000, additional to the 24h benefit
BA American Express credit card
Feb 14, 2014, 6:50 am
#31
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Feb 14, 2014, 8:22 am
#32
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I would like someone to confirm an assumption I'm making based on the several pieces of information I've read on here.
Less than a year ago I applied for the PP card, spent £10k, got my 2-4-1 voucher and then downgraded to the free card.
In April it'll be 12 months since I originally applied for the PP card.
If, after the anniversary date, I start spending on the card and, let's day, I upgrade to the PP one after I've spent 9k, when I reach the 10k I will have the voucher issued and I'll be able to downgrade again.
Is that right? (Obviously, I'd be conscious of the fact that I would miss out on 50% extra Avios for the spending)
Less than a year ago I applied for the PP card, spent £10k, got my 2-4-1 voucher and then downgraded to the free card.
In April it'll be 12 months since I originally applied for the PP card.
If, after the anniversary date, I start spending on the card and, let's day, I upgrade to the PP one after I've spent 9k, when I reach the 10k I will have the voucher issued and I'll be able to downgrade again.
Is that right? (Obviously, I'd be conscious of the fact that I would miss out on 50% extra Avios for the spending)
Feb 14, 2014, 8:30 am
#33
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Ringingup ... That might work once. Possibly.
I will let you cope with the loss of Abios earning and the moral dimension.
I'm still waiting for my 241 after upgrading, supposedly issued 8 Dec 13, having chased both BA and Amex.
I will let you cope with the loss of Abios earning and the moral dimension.
I'm still waiting for my 241 after upgrading, supposedly issued 8 Dec 13, having chased both BA and Amex.
Feb 14, 2014, 8:32 am
#34
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Feb 14, 2014, 8:34 am
#35
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Feb 14, 2014, 10:02 am
#37
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Not very impressed. I conversed by the telephonic instrument on 7 Feb with both BAEC and ( via the wonders of technology) Amex. They are "trying to trace this" and it should be resolved ... Oh, in a week?
I will see where we are by Wednesday ... I accept the possibility the flooding has washed my records off a hard drive somewhere.
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I will see where we are by Wednesday ... I accept the possibility the flooding has washed my records off a hard drive somewhere.
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Feb 14, 2014, 10:17 am
#38
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Feb 14, 2014, 10:43 am
#39
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Don't you think it might piss Amex off if you upgrade and downgrade all the time so that you basically earn Premium Plus 2-year 2-4-1 vouchers at £10K spend pa whilst holding the free card most of the time? Don't you think that this would be regarded as scamming the system? And it's not exactly as if what you're trying to do is particularly opaque.
Feb 14, 2014, 10:48 am
#40
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Don't you think it might piss Amex off if you upgrade and downgrade all the time so that you basically earn Premium Plus 2-year 2-4-1 vouchers at £10K spend pa whilst holding the free card most of the time? Don't you think that this would be regarded as scamming the system? And it's not exactly as if what you're trying to do is particularly opaque.
My current plan is to wait until the anniversary date and then enquire about an upgrade, to see if there is any chance that they can offer me a intro bonus (I've heard of a few receiving 6,000 recently) and perhaps a discount on the annual fee (unlikely). If it's favourable, I'll almost certainly upgrade before I start working on hitting the target spend, as I'd quite like the extra 0.5 Avios per £1.
Feb 14, 2014, 11:07 am
#41
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Feb 14, 2014, 11:28 am
#42
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Whether I'll downgrade at some point, if I ever decide to upgrade, is something I'd have to ponder. I'd certainly not do that straight after having my voucher issued and I have no intention of playing games with them.
Feb 14, 2014, 11:40 am
#43
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You're mixing my two posts. As I said, I made the first scenario very extreme and I don't intend to do exactly that.
Whether I'll downgrade at some point, if I ever decide to upgrade, is something I'd have to ponder. I'd certainly not do that straight after having my voucher issued and I have no intention of playing games with them.
Whether I'll downgrade at some point, if I ever decide to upgrade, is something I'd have to ponder. I'd certainly not do that straight after having my voucher issued and I have no intention of playing games with them.
I would like someone to confirm an assumption I'm making based on the several pieces of information I've read on here.
Less than a year ago I applied for the PP card, spent £10k, got my 2-4-1 voucher and then downgraded to the free card.
In April it'll be 12 months since I originally applied for the PP card.
If, after the anniversary date, I start spending on the card and, let's day, I upgrade to the PP one after I've spent 9k, when I reach the 10k I will have the voucher issued and I'll be able to downgrade again.
Is that right? (Obviously, I'd be conscious of the fact that I would miss out on 50% extra Avios for the spending)
Less than a year ago I applied for the PP card, spent £10k, got my 2-4-1 voucher and then downgraded to the free card.
In April it'll be 12 months since I originally applied for the PP card.
If, after the anniversary date, I start spending on the card and, let's day, I upgrade to the PP one after I've spent 9k, when I reach the 10k I will have the voucher issued and I'll be able to downgrade again.
Is that right? (Obviously, I'd be conscious of the fact that I would miss out on 50% extra Avios for the spending)
Feb 14, 2014, 11:54 am
#44
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I have explained further what my intentions are and it seems that you're are trying to make me look like a game player, which I'm not.
Other readers, differently from you, will understand my explanation and assume that I am being honest and truthful.
Feb 14, 2014, 12:08 pm
#45
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Platinum Card holders who applied for a PP card when they first came out (and for some years thereafter) had the PP card for free. I think that you had to be grandfathered in, so that current Platinum card holders (and those who have held this card for several years) are probably not eligible for this anymore, but someone may correct me.
I have never paid for our various PP cards.
I have never paid for our various PP cards.