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
Nov 2, 2018, 10:00 am
#1831
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 1,347
I would like to inform that there is a known issue specifically with this offer and we would request all card members to try this after few hours. We are also raising this from our end to make sure everything works without any interruption as soon as it can be.
Because of recent launch, you might face this issue. Rest assure, you will see it available very soon. Please try checking it after some time.
Nov 2, 2018, 10:27 am
#1832
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,848
As per Raffles’ post about the 500 Avios for £5 spend recently, the app only shows a subset of the offers available online if you log in via the web.
It’s very irritating as I tend to rely on the app, and a lot of the times the offers are identical. But sometimes there are extra ones on the website...
It’s very irritating as I tend to rely on the app, and a lot of the times the offers are identical. But sometimes there are extra ones on the website...
Nov 2, 2018, 11:01 am
#1834
Join Date: Sep 2007
Programs: AA, BA, Accor, Honors Diamond, IHG Diamond Elite and lots more....
Posts: 2,971
As per Raffles’ post about the 500 Avios for £5 spend recently, the app only shows a subset of the offers available online if you log in via the web.
It’s very irritating as I tend to rely on the app, and a lot of the times the offers are identical. But sometimes there are extra ones on the website...
It’s very irritating as I tend to rely on the app, and a lot of the times the offers are identical. But sometimes there are extra ones on the website...
Nov 2, 2018, 11:24 am
#1835
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,848
Sorry, GentleGiant, I wasn't meaning in reference to the specific issue people were talking about up-thread. I was able to save this offer when it appeared last week, but it only showed up on my web account and not the app (which is something Raffles flagged up in his post about it). I wouldn't have thought to look on the website, if his post hadn't reminded me that sometimes the app doesn't show everything.
Nov 2, 2018, 8:27 pm
#1838
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
Hopefully they will extend or expand it then for those affected. For those asking about primary only I loaded it onto both the standard and prem cards and onto the two secondary ch's cards and they all registered to the card & we all made sure all 6 cards had a fiver spent on them this evening. Hasn't had time to push through to show if worked or not but I go on the assumption that if it lets you save it to card it normally works.
Nov 3, 2018, 3:05 am
#1839
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 783
Hopefully they will extend or expand it then for those affected. For those asking about primary only I loaded it onto both the standard and prem cards and onto the two secondary ch's cards and they all registered to the card & we all made sure all 6 cards had a fiver spent on them this evening. Hasn't had time to push through to show if worked or not but I go on the assumption that if it lets you save it to card it normally works.
Nov 4, 2018, 4:13 am
#1841
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Stratford upon Avon
Programs: Amex Platinum UK and related Hotel loyalty programs
Posts: 204
Nov 4, 2018, 5:22 am
#1842
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: London
Programs: Mucci. Nothing else matters.
Posts: 38,644
Nov 4, 2018, 11:50 am
#1844
Join Date: Oct 2018
Posts: 36
It took 1 week from loading the offer to card to showing the 500 points on my statement (i made a purchase the next day to qualify) . Odd yours is not showing yet.
Nov 5, 2018, 3:08 am
#1845
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: All good weekends in the UK begin at Heathrow :)
Programs: Amex MR, A3, BAEC
Posts: 195
I've previously moaned about the lack of offers on a Gold card, which I have recently cancelled. It's almost time to apply for the BAPP for me again and would be apprehensive about doing it if the offers are lacking.