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 Ł3,000 within the first three months of card membership.
British Airways American Express Credit Card:
Collect 9,000 bonus Avios when you spend Ł1,000 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 Ł10,000 (or Ł20,000) 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 Ł3,000 within the first three months of card membership.
British Airways American Express Credit Card:
Collect 9,000 bonus Avios when you spend Ł1,000 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 Ł1,000 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 Ł3,000 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 Ł1,000 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 Ł3,000 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 Ł10,000 (or Ł20,000) 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 Ł1 (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: Ł2,500
- Refund protection: Ł300 (Ł200) per item
- Flight delay / cancellation / overbooking / missed: Ł200 (Ł0)
- Baggage delay (6+ hours): Ł750 (Ł0)
- Baggage delay (48+ hours): Ł1,000 (Ł0), additional to 6 hours benefit
- Accident: Ł250,000 (Ł75,000)
- Hijack (24+ hours): Ł1,500
- Hijack (72+ hours): Ł3,000, additional to the 24h benefit
BA American Express credit card
Aug 7, 2018, 3:17 am
#1712
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,844
When one goes to use the voucher, and pays the taxes and fees, do these earn 3 Avios per pound, and count towards the Ł10,000 spend? This assumes your year has rolled over and you’re working towards your next voucher, of course.
I assume so - it is a transaction on BA.com - but I haven’t seen this specified anywhere. Depending on what one redeems for, it could be >Ł500 per person, so 3000 Avios and 1/10 of your next voucher...
I assume so - it is a transaction on BA.com - but I haven’t seen this specified anywhere. Depending on what one redeems for, it could be >Ł500 per person, so 3000 Avios and 1/10 of your next voucher...
Aug 7, 2018, 3:31 am
#1713
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, ITA Club Executive, Hilton Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 3,598
When one goes to use the voucher, and pays the taxes and fees, do these earn 3 Avios per pound, and count towards the Ł10,000 spend? This assumes your year has rolled over and you’re working towards your next voucher, of course.
I assume so - it is a transaction on BA.com - but I haven’t seen this specified anywhere. Depending on what one redeems for, it could be >Ł500 per person, so 3000 Avios and 1/10 of your next voucher...
I assume so - it is a transaction on BA.com - but I haven’t seen this specified anywhere. Depending on what one redeems for, it could be >Ł500 per person, so 3000 Avios and 1/10 of your next voucher...
Aug 7, 2018, 3:39 am
#1714
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 783
[QUOTE=ringingup;30056205]
Of course, you’ll earn 3 Avios
I was under the impression that once you have spent 10k and got your 241, you had to wait until the start of year 2 on your account for any new spend to count towards your next 241?
Of course, you’ll earn 3 Avios
I was under the impression that once you have spent 10k and got your 241, you had to wait until the start of year 2 on your account for any new spend to count towards your next 241?
Aug 7, 2018, 3:47 am
#1715
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, ITA Club Executive, Hilton Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 3,598
Earning 3 Avios on BA transactions has got nothing to do with the spending target to trigger a companion voucher. Of course you need to wait for the new year to start spending towards the Ł10k.
Aug 7, 2018, 3:50 am
#1716
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,844
Thanks for the clarification @ringingup. Yes, I realise the year will have to 'tick over', but because I'm likely to trigger the voucher close to the end of my spend year, it will probably be spent (and taxes/fees charged) in the following spending year and therefore count towards the following 10k.
Aug 8, 2018, 6:19 pm
#1717
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: London / Los Angeles
Programs: Hilton Diamond, IHG Diamond Ambassador, Marriott Platinum, Hyatt Globalist, BA Silver
Posts: 1,631
Quick Question-
It used to be that referring from BA free Amex to BA premium Amex got a referral bonus of 9.000 amex. Is this now only 4,000 even if the person you refers gets the Premium?
Thanks
It used to be that referring from BA free Amex to BA premium Amex got a referral bonus of 9.000 amex. Is this now only 4,000 even if the person you refers gets the Premium?
Thanks
Aug 8, 2018, 8:28 pm
#1718
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Brighton UK
Programs: BAEC-Silver, AMEX-BA Prem' Plus & Standard, Accor Gold, HH-Silver, IHG,IBIS On Business
Posts: 955
Its 9 for the Prem' 4 for the standard but how much it pays out is tied to YOUR card. If you only have the Prem and they've sent you referral link cards awarding 4 it'll be an accident just call them up and im sure they'll send you out new ones. What card they take won't change that especially as in these days where awarding based on their card would tell you what one they got and that would probably breach GDPR in some stupid way
Aug 8, 2018, 11:13 pm
#1719
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: UK (currently)
Programs: BA Gold (and many other greater and lesser distinctions)
Posts: 7,202
Quick q. on cancelling one half of an Amex 2-4-1. If the 2nd pax (i.e. the non-Amex cardholder) booking is cancelled, there are obviously no Avios to refund and the cancellation fee will be payable, but am I right in assuming that the 2-4-1 voucher will just drop back into the account of the person who used it to make the original booking ?
Aug 8, 2018, 11:45 pm
#1720
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Brighton UK
Programs: BAEC-Silver, AMEX-BA Prem' Plus & Standard, Accor Gold, HH-Silver, IHG,IBIS On Business
Posts: 955
Not as simple as that. If the voucher has been logged then it's deemed as spent. I'd speak to Amex CC first about getting a new one before canx anything. BA would be powerless to help to a degree as they don't generate them and once the code has been used it's basically useless.
Sorry to say this may require some tooing and froing between them so probably better to ask amex cc to sort it out for you and let them do the work which I'm sure they'll be happy to do.
Sorry to say this may require some tooing and froing between them so probably better to ask amex cc to sort it out for you and let them do the work which I'm sure they'll be happy to do.
Aug 8, 2018, 11:49 pm
#1721
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: UK (currently)
Programs: BA Gold (and many other greater and lesser distinctions)
Posts: 7,202
Not as simple as that. If the voucher has been logged then it's deemed as spent. I'd speak to Amex CC first about getting a new one before canx anything. BA would be powerless to help to a degree as they don't generate them and once the code has been used it's basically useless. Sorry to say this may require some tooing and froing between them so probably better to ask amex cc to sort it out for you and let them do the work which I'm sure they'll be happy to do.
Aug 8, 2018, 11:53 pm
#1722
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Brighton UK
Programs: BAEC-Silver, AMEX-BA Prem' Plus & Standard, Accor Gold, HH-Silver, IHG,IBIS On Business
Posts: 955
Yes if the booking is killed and a new one generated then the voucher becomes usable again however of BA are lazy and just remove one pax but keep the original booking then you run the risk of the voucher being deemed as used and spent. Tbh my bad for lot making that distinction above
Aug 8, 2018, 11:55 pm
#1723
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: UK (currently)
Programs: BA Gold (and many other greater and lesser distinctions)
Posts: 7,202
Yes if the booking is killed and a new one generated then the voucher becomes usable again however of BA are lazy and just remove one pax but keep the original booking then you run the risk of the voucher being deemed as used and spent. Tbh my bad for lot making that distinction above
Aug 10, 2018, 9:47 am
#1724
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
Programs: Mucci, BAEC, Eurostar
Posts: 3,286
- Companion vouchers earned each year upon reaching a cumulative spend of Ł10,000 increments. Each voucher is valid for two years and can be used for a guest to accompany the cardholder on a redemption ticket. Redemptions can be one way or round trip (open jaws accepted), must be on BA metal and subject to standard redemption rules
Aug 10, 2018, 9:56 am
#1725
Join Date: Jul 2013
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond *, IHG, Couples Romance Rewards
Posts: 2,347