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
Sep 29, 2016, 12:26 pm
#1171
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: England
Programs: BAEC Gold, UA Mileage Plus, Hotels.com Gold, Marriott Bonvoy Platinum, Pizza Express Gold
Posts: 603
Sep 29, 2016, 12:47 pm
#1172
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: DWC
Programs: OWS, *A G
Posts: 626
Has anyone on the board any thoughts on today's M&S announcement and the general decline of BA's product offering - in relation to the increased annual fee of the BAPP card?
I, for one, am out as soon as I obtained my 2-4-1 from which I am weeks away only. As difficult as it is to find availability and plan a year in advance, I think I will focus on aggressive sale fares and pricing errors.
I, for one, am out as soon as I obtained my 2-4-1 from which I am weeks away only. As difficult as it is to find availability and plan a year in advance, I think I will focus on aggressive sale fares and pricing errors.
Sep 29, 2016, 1:22 pm
#1173
Join Date: Apr 2016
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 157
Has anyone on the board any thoughts on today's M&S announcement and the general decline of BA's product offering - in relation to the increased annual fee of the BAPP card?
I, for one, am out as soon as I obtained my 2-4-1 from which I am weeks away only. As difficult as it is to find availability and plan a year in advance, I think I will focus on aggressive sale fares and pricing errors.
I, for one, am out as soon as I obtained my 2-4-1 from which I am weeks away only. As difficult as it is to find availability and plan a year in advance, I think I will focus on aggressive sale fares and pricing errors.
I do think it's marginal though: the BA AMEX really only works for me because I have the work travel to drive the spend through it, and I value premium travel enough that I would probably be paying cash for some of these trips if I wasn't redeeming the avios+241.
The whole thing is very marginal and dependent on circumstances.
Sep 29, 2016, 4:26 pm
#1174
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Silver, SPG Gold, Hilton Gold, Melia Gold, Shangri-La Jade, BA Amex PP, Iberia+, Nandos Card
Posts: 1,523
As I see it the optimal thing is a kind of tick-tock approach; alternate 2-4-1 redemptions with paid oneworld fares (which handily top up your avios and TPs). With the 2 year shelf life of the 2-4-1, it isn't necessary to keep the paid AMEX continuously if you take this approach.
I do think it's marginal though: the BA AMEX really only works for me because I have the work travel to drive the spend through it, and I value premium travel enough that I would probably be paying cash for some of these trips if I wasn't redeeming the avios+241.
I do think it's marginal though: the BA AMEX really only works for me because I have the work travel to drive the spend through it, and I value premium travel enough that I would probably be paying cash for some of these trips if I wasn't redeeming the avios+241.
Where revenue fares have come up that have been of good to exceptional value, we've ended up using the 2-4-1 to position on occasions...
I think overall though there is more value in having the card than not having it.
Sep 30, 2016, 12:41 am
#1175
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club, Iberia Airlines, Airport Lounges and Environmentally Friendly Travel
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: London, UK
Posts: 22,212
Was this a recent experience? I cancelled my BAPP 5 and a bit weeks ago after hearing from HfP that the voucher wouldn't be removed, I've just checked and the voucher is still there and available for redemption.
Perhaps I should book something quick before it disappears!
Perhaps I should book something quick before it disappears!
Sep 30, 2016, 3:47 am
#1176
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: UK
Programs: BA Bronze
Posts: 523
This month I had 3 separate avios transactions to my account from my BA Amex, the usual Base and BA spend, but a new one: listed in BA as "Finance Card - Foreign Currency Campaign Spend Bonus" and in Amex as "BAPP Consumer Avios Bonus4"
I don't remember any promotional material on this - can anyone remember what this is?
I don't remember any promotional material on this - can anyone remember what this is?
Sep 30, 2016, 7:22 am
#1177
Join Date: Apr 2016
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 157
This month I had 3 separate avios transactions to my account from my BA Amex, the usual Base and BA spend, but a new one: listed in BA as "Finance Card - Foreign Currency Campaign Spend Bonus" and in Amex as "BAPP Consumer Avios Bonus4"
I don't remember any promotional material on this - can anyone remember what this is?
I don't remember any promotional material on this - can anyone remember what this is?
Oct 11, 2016, 12:24 am
#1179
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 191
For the last several weeks, earned Avios haven't been displaying on the Amex website. Clicking on 'View earned Avios' results in a line which says they are unable to complete the request at the current time. Is this happening to everyone, or just me?
Oct 11, 2016, 1:25 am
#1180
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 935
They are showing fine on my account.
Oct 12, 2016, 1:57 am
#1182
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: UK
Programs: BA GGL; Lifetime Gold
Posts: 256
This month I had 3 separate avios transactions to my account from my BA Amex, the usual Base and BA spend, but a new one: listed in BA as "Finance Card - Foreign Currency Campaign Spend Bonus" and in Amex as "BAPP Consumer Avios Bonus4"
I don't remember any promotional material on this - can anyone remember what this is?
I don't remember any promotional material on this - can anyone remember what this is?
Oct 12, 2016, 3:24 am
#1183
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
Posts: 32,145
Agreed ... had mine credit last month. I think we had to sign up for it ... a long-forgotten click on an email button!
Oct 14, 2016, 3:42 pm
#1184
Join Date: Sep 2007
Programs: AA, BA, Accor, Honors Diamond, IHG Diamond Elite and lots more....
Posts: 2,971
Protection question.
If I pay 50% of a villa stay abroad on one BA card and then pay the balance on a different one would there be any issues claiming if the villa failed to materialise or other issues?
Just wondering if paying on two different Amex accounts would affect anything.
The villa is in the USA so payments all made in USD with a large charge for foreign use.
If I pay 50% of a villa stay abroad on one BA card and then pay the balance on a different one would there be any issues claiming if the villa failed to materialise or other issues?
Just wondering if paying on two different Amex accounts would affect anything.
The villa is in the USA so payments all made in USD with a large charge for foreign use.
Oct 16, 2016, 6:41 am
#1185
Join Date: Dec 2015
Programs: BAEC Gold, HH Diamond, IC Ambassador, Sixt Platinum
Posts: 95
Hey folks!
We got a bit of a problem.. My girlfriend has got her premium plus card now. Unfortunately only with 1k credit limit.
The Amex guy on the phone said we'd have to wait 3 months for an increase. I asked if we could 'top up' some thousand pounds so that we're able to use the card. Or at least directly paying off what we're spending.
He advised that we should keep it within the 1k for three months. Well that's already full after a few days plus that would actually mean its unrealistic that we hit the 3k bonus within 3 months (we'd have to land on spot with the spent)
We'd appreciate advise here, particularly if you think it's bad to immediately pay off the card. Thanks
We got a bit of a problem.. My girlfriend has got her premium plus card now. Unfortunately only with 1k credit limit.
The Amex guy on the phone said we'd have to wait 3 months for an increase. I asked if we could 'top up' some thousand pounds so that we're able to use the card. Or at least directly paying off what we're spending.
He advised that we should keep it within the 1k for three months. Well that's already full after a few days plus that would actually mean its unrealistic that we hit the 3k bonus within 3 months (we'd have to land on spot with the spent)
We'd appreciate advise here, particularly if you think it's bad to immediately pay off the card. Thanks