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
Jul 7, 2017, 2:52 am
#1486
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: UK (NE)
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 223
Was the correct BAEC number in the card? Can you get Amex to confirm the number?
Btw, the bolded section by me is because I am very surprised anyone would do that since there is a much larger potential to mess everything up. Surely it would have been better to get the points across first (it doesn't take more than a few days) and cancel after.
Btw, the bolded section by me is because I am very surprised anyone would do that since there is a much larger potential to mess everything up. Surely it would have been better to get the points across first (it doesn't take more than a few days) and cancel after.
We decided to cancel as the balance was zero, I had received my new card and we wanted to start the 6 month waiting period before her next card ASAP - I did have concerns but Amex assured us it wouldn't be an issue and it can be cancelled (we have this in writing via their message centre).
Plus this was at the start of the month and I always thought the points were transferred at the end of the month - so the annual fee credit owed would be less (not a huge amount, granted) and we'd lose almost a month by keeping open a card we weren't using...
Jul 7, 2017, 3:04 am
#1487
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 13
See the answer in the wiki here http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...iscussion.html
Jul 8, 2017, 7:25 am
#1488
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: UK (NE)
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 223
Yes we confirmed the correct BAEC number with them.
We decided to cancel as the balance was zero, I had received my new card and we wanted to start the 6 month waiting period before her next card ASAP - I did have concerns but Amex assured us it wouldn't be an issue and it can be cancelled (we have this in writing via their message centre).
Plus this was at the start of the month and I always thought the points were transferred at the end of the month - so the annual fee credit owed would be less (not a huge amount, granted) and we'd lose almost a month by keeping open a card we weren't using...
We decided to cancel as the balance was zero, I had received my new card and we wanted to start the 6 month waiting period before her next card ASAP - I did have concerns but Amex assured us it wouldn't be an issue and it can be cancelled (we have this in writing via their message centre).
Plus this was at the start of the month and I always thought the points were transferred at the end of the month - so the annual fee credit owed would be less (not a huge amount, granted) and we'd lose almost a month by keeping open a card we weren't using...
Jul 8, 2017, 9:24 am
#1489
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: BAEC Silver, Hilton Honors Gold
Posts: 627
Latest update from American Express message centre is that they sent the 9,000 bonus Avios but it was "rejected by British Airways". They are attempting to find out why and resolve but in the meaning suggest we contact BAEC ourselves - easier said than done though as its a non-airline partner so from what I can see will involve filling in and printing out a form and sending by post. Surely there must be an easier way?
To resolve it my case was passed to the back office team to link the accounts again. The following month they did transfer across i.e. 2 months after I cancelled.
Lesson learnt: don't cancel until they are transferred across, it's just not worth the hassle to save a few quid on the annual fee.
Jul 8, 2017, 11:38 pm
#1490
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 708
3000 avios summer bonus
Apologies if this is already covered up thread - just noticed that in my app it advised me that I have earned 3000 bonus avios for spending £3k between the start of June and end of July. Worth knowing about if you have multiple cards and would consider redirecting spend to BA Amex to trigger ^
EDIT - just seen that this is mentioned as 7k avios for £7k spend for BA PP. I have the basic BA card as I'm tight and don't want to pay the fee
EDIT - just seen that this is mentioned as 7k avios for £7k spend for BA PP. I have the basic BA card as I'm tight and don't want to pay the fee
Last edited by DocS; Jul 8, 2017 at 11:41 pm Reason: Error
Jul 10, 2017, 4:54 pm
#1491
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Essex
Programs: BAEC, Amex, SPG Gold, VA Red, HHonours Gold
Posts: 116
Upgrading from free to PP card, but I have some Amex Offers on the free card I want to still use, does anyone know ifl these carry over to the PP card? (Namely the 2.9% interest offer that runs till next year)
Jul 11, 2017, 2:49 am
#1493
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Bangkok / London
Programs: BA Silver, AmEx Platinum, AVIS Presidents Club, Marriott Titanium Elite
Posts: 1,106
Jul 11, 2017, 2:53 am
#1494
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: BAEC Silver, Hilton Honors Gold
Posts: 627
Jul 11, 2017, 4:48 am
#1495
Join Date: Apr 2017
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 1,387
But if yours are late compared to normal, it's definitely worth a call or secure message - I had a similar problem last year and they gave me a few extra Avios for the inconvenience.
Jul 11, 2017, 10:55 am
#1497
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: living near Malaga
Programs: BA Gold , Mucci recipient. Coffee Drinker, Blue Sky Thinker
Posts: 2,111
Jul 12, 2017, 7:11 am
#1499
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: UK (currently)
Programs: BA Gold (and many other greater and lesser distinctions)
Posts: 7,208
Jul 15, 2017, 8:25 am
#1500
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Scotland
Posts: 377
Just got my partner a BA Amex Premier Plus card in anticipation of paying nearly £5000 towards a future private medical bill (then clearing with cash) to grab some Avios.
However not possible now and as I referred (getting 9000 Avios) would I lose these if this card was cancelled / or downgraded to the basic BA Amex Card ?
TIA
However not possible now and as I referred (getting 9000 Avios) would I lose these if this card was cancelled / or downgraded to the basic BA Amex Card ?
TIA