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 27, 2016, 2:58 am
#1157
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 4,647
. The offer is for a 3000 Avios bonus for £1000 spend within three months (well two now) because "it looks like it's some time since you used the card".It's not much, but every little helps...
Sep 27, 2016, 8:07 am
#1158
Join Date: Dec 2015
Programs: BAEC Gold, HH Diamond, IC Ambassador, Sixt Platinum
Posts: 95
Hello!
Sorry maybe it's a dumb question and probably answered quite a few times, but I wanted to double check..
I've got the Premium Plus one since about 3 months and somehow already reached the 10k and the voucher is in the System.
Can I already downgrade the card to the blue one to get a refund or do I need to book the flight first and then I can downgrade? It'll take some more time to gather the necessary Avios for a nice first redemption..
My 6 Month waiting after cancelling the Gold Amex should be over shortly, so then reapplying there and filling the 2k spend..
Thanks
P
Sorry maybe it's a dumb question and probably answered quite a few times, but I wanted to double check..
I've got the Premium Plus one since about 3 months and somehow already reached the 10k and the voucher is in the System.
Can I already downgrade the card to the blue one to get a refund or do I need to book the flight first and then I can downgrade? It'll take some more time to gather the necessary Avios for a nice first redemption..
My 6 Month waiting after cancelling the Gold Amex should be over shortly, so then reapplying there and filling the 2k spend..
Thanks
P
Sep 27, 2016, 9:15 am
#1159
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: England
Programs: BAEC Gold, UA Mileage Plus, Hotels.com Gold, Marriott Bonvoy Platinum, Pizza Express Gold
Posts: 603
Hello!
Sorry maybe it's a dumb question and probably answered quite a few times, but I wanted to double check..
I've got the Premium Plus one since about 3 months and somehow already reached the 10k and the voucher is in the System.
Can I already downgrade the card to the blue one to get a refund or do I need to book the flight first and then I can downgrade? It'll take some more time to gather the necessary Avios for a nice first redemption..
My 6 Month waiting after cancelling the Gold Amex should be over shortly, so then reapplying there and filling the 2k spend..
Thanks
P
Sorry maybe it's a dumb question and probably answered quite a few times, but I wanted to double check..
I've got the Premium Plus one since about 3 months and somehow already reached the 10k and the voucher is in the System.
Can I already downgrade the card to the blue one to get a refund or do I need to book the flight first and then I can downgrade? It'll take some more time to gather the necessary Avios for a nice first redemption..
My 6 Month waiting after cancelling the Gold Amex should be over shortly, so then reapplying there and filling the 2k spend..
Thanks
P
In reality you can cancel the card altogether and the voucher stays in your BA account. This means that you can start the clock on the 6 month wait to get another sign up bonus - if that's what you want to do. You do need to have an Amex card of some description to pay the taxes etc on the 241 redemption - it doesn't need to be a BAPP.
Sep 27, 2016, 9:40 am
#1160
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: London
Programs: BA CCR/GGL, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 3,483
MrsLondonAndy got the 10,000 Avios for spending £10K mailshot over the weekend. AmEx are normally pretty good at marketing, but to say you've got 3 months to spend the £10K and then give you just over 2 months is a pretty poor show. We've just bought a new PC and are planning holidays for next year (like others have mentioned) but £10K in two months would be a bit of a stretch - I may contact AmEx and see if they'll extend it for a month...
Sep 27, 2016, 11:24 am
#1161
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: North of Carlisle
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 1,538
MrsLondonAndy got the 10,000 Avios for spending £10K mailshot over the weekend. AmEx are normally pretty good at marketing, but to say you've got 3 months to spend the £10K and then give you just over 2 months is a pretty poor show. We've just bought a new PC and are planning holidays for next year (like others have mentioned) but £10K in two months would be a bit of a stretch - I may contact AmEx and see if they'll extend it for a month...
Sep 27, 2016, 4:24 pm
#1162
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: London
Programs: BA Bronze
Posts: 181
A heads up to anyone who knows friends and family members off to University this year - many Universities now accept American Express for fee payments...
With the £10k/10kavios offer it could work out quite well? [If only my limit was high enough!]
With the £10k/10kavios offer it could work out quite well? [If only my limit was high enough!]
Sep 27, 2016, 10:34 pm
#1163
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: UK
Programs: BA GGL, BA Amex Prem, Amex Plat, Hilton Diamond, Sir Crazy8534 de l'ordres des aides de Pucci
Posts: 4,455
I just hit the £10k extra spend as per the offer, anyone else have any experience on how long the 10k avios take to post?
Sep 29, 2016, 6:58 am
#1166
Join Date: Dec 2015
Programs: BAEC Gold, HH Diamond, IC Ambassador, Sixt Platinum
Posts: 95
Amex will tell you that you can downgrade the card and keep the voucher (and presumably get a refund for 8 or 9 months of the fee)
In reality you can cancel the card altogether and the voucher stays in your BA account. This means that you can start the clock on the 6 month wait to get another sign up bonus - if that's what you want to do. You do need to have an Amex card of some description to pay the taxes etc on the 241 redemption - it doesn't need to be a BAPP.
In reality you can cancel the card altogether and the voucher stays in your BA account. This means that you can start the clock on the 6 month wait to get another sign up bonus - if that's what you want to do. You do need to have an Amex card of some description to pay the taxes etc on the 241 redemption - it doesn't need to be a BAPP.
Nice!
Sep 29, 2016, 7:25 am
#1167
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
Sep 29, 2016, 9:30 am
#1168
Join Date: Dec 2015
Programs: BAEC Gold, HH Diamond, IC Ambassador, Sixt Platinum
Posts: 95
Sep 29, 2016, 9:48 am
#1169
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: North of Carlisle
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 1,538
Sep 29, 2016, 10:18 am
#1170
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Exec Club Gold
Posts: 335
Perhaps I should book something quick before it disappears!
