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
Dec 5, 2017, 10:51 am
#1606
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: West Sussex, UK
Programs: BAEC, Silver
Posts: 148
If the account is in my name, but my other half has a supplementary card, who gets the Avios for the purchases?
Secondly, I notice on the Wiki it says about receiving 19,000 bonus Avios for being referred & accepted for the premium plus card & having spent £3000 - is this in addition to the 25,000 welcome bonus after spending £3000 in 3 months?
- Do I get the Avios for purchases from my card and my partner gets the Avios from his purchases?
- Do I get the Avios for purchases from both cards?
Secondly, I notice on the Wiki it says about receiving 19,000 bonus Avios for being referred & accepted for the premium plus card & having spent £3000 - is this in addition to the 25,000 welcome bonus after spending £3000 in 3 months?
Dec 5, 2017, 11:05 am
#1607
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: BAEC Silver, Hilton Honors Gold
Posts: 627
If the account is in my name, but my other half has a supplementary card, who gets the Avios for the purchases?
- Do I get the Avios for purchases from my card and my partner gets the Avios from his purchases?
- Do I get the Avios for purchases from both cards?
No it refers to the welcome bonus not additional. That card has in the past offered 18,000 as a welcome bonus which increases to 19,000 when being referred. You only get 1000 additional Avios on top of whatever the standard welcome bonus is offered at the time when being referred.
Dec 12, 2017, 1:05 am
#1608
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,846
Missing Avios?
Normally, the Avios accrued transfer automatically from my Amex Blue to my BAEC account, leaving the former on 8th of each month and showing up in the latter as “Transaction” on 8th and “Posted” on 9th.
This month, the Amex app shows them as having left as usual on 8th, but they aren’t showing up in the BAEC account. It’s now several days later - I thought it was perhaps a weekend issue, but still nothing.
Has anybody else come across this before? Should I leave it a bit longer and then contact BA, or is it not worth it?
This month, the Amex app shows them as having left as usual on 8th, but they aren’t showing up in the BAEC account. It’s now several days later - I thought it was perhaps a weekend issue, but still nothing.
Has anybody else come across this before? Should I leave it a bit longer and then contact BA, or is it not worth it?
Dec 12, 2017, 1:16 am
#1609
Join Date: Apr 2017
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 1,387
Normally, the Avios accrued transfer automatically from my Amex Blue to my BAEC account, leaving the former on 8th of each month and showing up in the latter as “Transaction” on 8th and “Posted” on 9th.
This month, the Amex app shows them as having left as usual on 8th, but they aren’t showing up in the BAEC account. It’s now several days later - I thought it was perhaps a weekend issue, but still nothing.
Has anybody else come across this before? Should I leave it a bit longer and then contact BA, or is it not worth it?
This month, the Amex app shows them as having left as usual on 8th, but they aren’t showing up in the BAEC account. It’s now several days later - I thought it was perhaps a weekend issue, but still nothing.
Has anybody else come across this before? Should I leave it a bit longer and then contact BA, or is it not worth it?
Dec 12, 2017, 2:39 am
#1610
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,846
Dec 15, 2017, 12:30 pm
#1611
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: London
Programs: BA BLUE BADGE
Posts: 1,323
I recently reached the £10k spend on the BA Premium Plus card so got a 2-4-1 voucher and downgraded to the standard card. The new card arrived and a fee refund was gratefully received.
What I have noted from a note on my statement is that I now need a further £9k spend to get another voucher. So it seems the £10k spend on the Premium card that triggered the 1st voucher counts towards the £20k spend on the standard card that will trigger a 2nd voucher.
An unexpected surprise for me.
What I have noted from a note on my statement is that I now need a further £9k spend to get another voucher. So it seems the £10k spend on the Premium card that triggered the 1st voucher counts towards the £20k spend on the standard card that will trigger a 2nd voucher.
An unexpected surprise for me.
Dec 15, 2017, 3:51 pm
#1612
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: BAEC Silver, Hilton Honors Gold
Posts: 627
I recently reached the £10k spend on the BA Premium Plus card so got a 2-4-1 voucher and downgraded to the standard card. The new card arrived and a fee refund was gratefully received.
What I have noted from a note on my statement is that I now need a further £9k spend to get another voucher. So it seems the £10k spend on the Premium card that triggered the 1st voucher counts towards the £20k spend on the standard card that will trigger a 2nd voucher.
An unexpected surprise for me.
What I have noted from a note on my statement is that I now need a further £9k spend to get another voucher. So it seems the £10k spend on the Premium card that triggered the 1st voucher counts towards the £20k spend on the standard card that will trigger a 2nd voucher.
An unexpected surprise for me.
Dec 16, 2017, 5:55 pm
#1613
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Stratford upon Avon
Programs: Amex Platinum UK and related Hotel loyalty programs
Posts: 204
Retention bonus
I also mentioned that I was thinking of cancelling my card and they offered an extra avios per £ spent for 3 months as a retention incentive. So assume that I’ll get 2.5 avios/£ non-BA and 4 avios/£ BA spend.[/QUOTE]
Hi all has anyone else had any retention bonus offers. My year renews in January and I’m considering trying to downgrade to see what I get offered. I am likely to have quite a high spend in Feb as we are away but want to compare the Avios earned v the 2.99% foreign transaction fee vs using my Halifax card that had Zero fees abroad.
Dec 16, 2017, 11:47 pm
#1614
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 1,683
Hi all has anyone else had any retention bonus offers. My year renews in January and I’m considering trying to downgrade to see what I get offered. I am likely to have quite a high spend in Feb as we are away but want to compare the Avios earned v the 2.99% foreign transaction fee vs using my Halifax card that had Zero fees abroad.
Dec 17, 2017, 4:40 am
#1615
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: UK (currently)
Programs: BA Gold (and many other greater and lesser distinctions)
Posts: 7,208
I have a Costo deal on several of our Amex cards, which would work well if the cost of a high value item could be split across several cards. I have done this successfully in-store at places like Harrods, but wondered if it is possible at Costco. Maybe Costco sell their own brand gift cards for use at Costco, but I cannot see any on the website Reports of any relevant experiences appreciated.
Dec 17, 2017, 6:01 am
#1616
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: North of Carlisle
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 1,538
I have a Costo deal on several of our Amex cards, which would work well if the cost of a high value item could be split across several cards. I have done this successfully in-store at places like Harrods, but wondered if it is possible at Costco. Maybe Costco sell their own brand gift cards for use at Costco, but I cannot see any on the website Reports of any relevant experiences appreciated.
Dec 30, 2017, 12:15 pm
#1617
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL/CR; Hilton Diamond; Mucci des Puccis
Posts: 5,609
I asked on the Amex board, but no response - does anyone know if having a Gold Credit card which gives Membership points (I've had this for years and just cancelled today) invalidates the bonus for the Amex Gold Preferred Awards card? Raffles' guide on hfp doesn't mention it (it mentions a new type of credit card).
Dec 30, 2017, 2:40 pm
#1618
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, ITA Club Executive, Hilton Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 3,599
I asked on the Amex board, but no response - does anyone know if having a Gold Credit card which gives Membership points (I've had this for years and just cancelled today) invalidates the bonus for the Amex Gold Preferred Awards card? Raffles' guide on hfp doesn't mention it (it mentions a new type of credit card).
Jan 2, 2018, 10:46 pm
#1620
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: London
Programs: BA - Gold for Life, CCR & GGL; IC Spire Elite Ambassador; Diamond Hilton Honors; Hyatt Discoverist
Posts: 6,720