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 19, 2017, 3:20 am
#1501
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 1,663
Good to see all credit card fees, including Amex, banned in the UK from next January.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40648641
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40648641
Jul 19, 2017, 3:24 am
#1502
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, ITA Club Executive, Hilton Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 3,598
Good to see all credit card fees, including Amex, banned in the UK from next January.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40648641
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40648641
Jul 19, 2017, 3:30 am
#1503
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: EDI
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 466
Good to see all credit card fees, including Amex, banned in the UK from next January.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40648641
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40648641
Jul 19, 2017, 3:53 am
#1506
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: All good weekends in the UK begin at Heathrow :)
Programs: Amex MR, A3, BAEC
Posts: 195
Good to see all credit card fees, including Amex, banned in the UK from next January.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40648641
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40648641
Jul 19, 2017, 4:09 am
#1508
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, ITA Club Executive, Hilton Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 3,598
Jul 19, 2017, 4:18 am
#1509
Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club, easyJet and Ryanair
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: UK/Las Vegas
Programs: BA Gold (GGL/CCR)
Posts: 15,914
Jul 19, 2017, 4:27 am
#1510
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, ITA Club Executive, Hilton Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 3,598
Jul 19, 2017, 5:41 am
#1511
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: All good weekends in the UK begin at Heathrow :)
Programs: Amex MR, A3, BAEC
Posts: 195
It follows a directive from the European Union, which bans surcharges on Visa and Mastercard payments.
However the government has gone further than the directive, by also banning charges on American Express and Paypal too.
(...)
Banks typically charge large retailers between 10p and 20p for each debit card transaction, or 0.6% for credit cards.
However the government has gone further than the directive, by also banning charges on American Express and Paypal too.
(...)
Banks typically charge large retailers between 10p and 20p for each debit card transaction, or 0.6% for credit cards.
Raffles posted an article on this recently:
http://www.headforpoints.com/2017/07...-for-the-card/
Jul 19, 2017, 6:01 am
#1512
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, ITA Club Executive, Hilton Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 3,598
The article quoted states:
Basically, by limiting what card payment companies are allowed to charge retailers per transactions, some rewards cards may have their futures cast in to doubt.
Raffles posted an article on this recently:
http://www.headforpoints.com/2017/07...-for-the-card/
Basically, by limiting what card payment companies are allowed to charge retailers per transactions, some rewards cards may have their futures cast in to doubt.
Raffles posted an article on this recently:
http://www.headforpoints.com/2017/07...-for-the-card/
- merchant charging customers when using credit cards (article posted a few posts above)
- issuers charging merchants interchange fees (your point)
Jul 19, 2017, 11:47 pm
#1513
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: UK (NE)
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 223
I was in a similar situation where I cancelled before they transferred across and also ran into issues as they didn't go across the next month. When you cancel they unlink your BAEC account from your Amex account and so the transfer fails. I think I was also told that they were 'rejected by BA' but that wasn't correct.
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.
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.
Took it up with the live online chat and was told she was given wrong information and the points are forfeited when the card is cancelled!
Aug 16, 2017, 3:35 pm
#1514
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 15
Can 2x 2-4-1 from different people used together?
Newbie here, signed up to BAPP in Feb 2017 and about to hit £10k spend and unlocking first ever 2-4-1 voucher. Once that happens, my plan is:
1. Refer wife to get her own BAPP (we both earn bonus avios)
2. Cancel by BAPP (get partial annual fee refund)
3. Get added as supplementary cardholder to my wife's BAPP
4. Spend £10k on her BAPP and unlock another 2-4-1 voucher in 6 months
If the above works, by March 2018 we will have 2x 2-4-1 vouchers. My question is, can we then use both vouchers for a reward travel for 4 people? My hesitation is although we have a household account, one voucher "belongs" to my BAEC account and the other "belongs" to my wife's.
Many thanks for any advise.
1. Refer wife to get her own BAPP (we both earn bonus avios)
2. Cancel by BAPP (get partial annual fee refund)
3. Get added as supplementary cardholder to my wife's BAPP
4. Spend £10k on her BAPP and unlock another 2-4-1 voucher in 6 months
If the above works, by March 2018 we will have 2x 2-4-1 vouchers. My question is, can we then use both vouchers for a reward travel for 4 people? My hesitation is although we have a household account, one voucher "belongs" to my BAEC account and the other "belongs" to my wife's.
Many thanks for any advise.
Aug 16, 2017, 5:05 pm
#1515
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 305
Newbie here, signed up to BAPP in Feb 2017 and about to hit £10k spend and unlocking first ever 2-4-1 voucher. Once that happens, my plan is:
1. Refer wife to get her own BAPP (we both earn bonus avios)
2. Cancel by BAPP (get partial annual fee refund)
3. Get added as supplementary cardholder to my wife's BAPP
4. Spend £10k on her BAPP and unlock another 2-4-1 voucher in 6 months
If the above works, by March 2018 we will have 2x 2-4-1 vouchers. My question is, can we then use both vouchers for a reward travel for 4 people? My hesitation is although we have a household account, one voucher "belongs" to my BAEC account and the other "belongs" to my wife's.
Many thanks for any advise.
1. Refer wife to get her own BAPP (we both earn bonus avios)
2. Cancel by BAPP (get partial annual fee refund)
3. Get added as supplementary cardholder to my wife's BAPP
4. Spend £10k on her BAPP and unlock another 2-4-1 voucher in 6 months
If the above works, by March 2018 we will have 2x 2-4-1 vouchers. My question is, can we then use both vouchers for a reward travel for 4 people? My hesitation is although we have a household account, one voucher "belongs" to my BAEC account and the other "belongs" to my wife's.
Many thanks for any advise.
This should be ok. The voucher holder needs to travel on the 241 booking, so you need to travel on your voucher and your wife needs to travel on hers. You could make a booking for yourself + 1 guest (using your voucher) and your wife could make a booking for herself + 1 guest (using her voucher). This would result in all 4 passengers travelling, albeit on two separate bookings. I don't believe that you can use two 241 vouchers on the same booking.
A couple of things to note:
- Even booking 355 days out, you won't be guaranteed 4 reward seats unless you're planning to redeem in Y (or are you GGL?).
- Technically, if you cancel your BA card before using your voucher the T&Cs say that you will lose your voucher. I've never known it to actually happen, but if BA/Amex were ever to enforce this then you might lose your first voucher at some point between Step 2 and making the booking. One way to protect yourself would be to convert your BAPP to a free card at Step 2 (rather than cancelling it altogether) until the voucher is used. This also gets you your pro rata fee refund. (Some would see this as over-cautious, but just making you aware of the risks.)