Originally Posted by LondonElite

I may be wrong, but I believe you have to take a BA flight to get the card. At least that's the way it used to be. The card itself is pretty pointless because you don't use it to collect Avios from merchants. These all have their own cards (viz Shell, Tesco, etc) that convert into Avois. No merchant in the UK will actually take your BA card (they can't do anything with it).