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
Jan 8, 2019, 4:52 am
#1891
Join Date: Nov 2018
Posts: 100
Just to add that in my experience, admittedly with much smaller amounts, even if it goes through as a payment and then is subsequently refunded to the account it will have a nil impact on reaching the £10k spend target.
Jan 8, 2019, 5:27 am
#1892
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: UK (currently)
Programs: BA Gold (and many other greater and lesser distinctions)
Posts: 7,208
Can anyone please confirm that currently an airline ticket booked through Ebookers (part of Expedia) comes up as airline spend, for the 3x spend on the BAPP (if a BA flight) or as 2x miles on the Amex Gold (for other airlines) ?
Jan 11, 2019, 3:38 am
#1893
Join Date: Jan 2016
Programs: BAEC Silver, Avis Preferred, Hilton Gold
Posts: 521
Heads up: I received a targeted offer from BA for an increased signup bonus of 30k instead of 25k Avios.
If you're thinking of taking out a new BAPP it might be worth checking your inbox...
If you're thinking of taking out a new BAPP it might be worth checking your inbox...
Jan 11, 2019, 3:51 am
#1894
Join Date: Apr 2017
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 1,387
Haven't tried this but it is most unlikely to count as airline or BA spend I'm afraid. Simply put: ebookers is not an airline.
Jan 12, 2019, 4:33 am
#1895
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,848
"no available offers"
I've had a BA Amex for a few years and upgraded to the Premium last year.
I monitor the Amex App frequently, and usually there 5-20 offers. Granted, most are for luxury fashion or jewelry brands I'm not interested in, but sometimes there are more useful ones - Caffe Nero, various restaurants, hotels, etc. - or even, a couple of months ago, Wilkos (very handy for gift cards).
Regardless, there have always been some offers available - until today: "You currently have no available Offers. Please try again later." The few offers I'd saved are still there.
Is this common? Although my spend rate on the card over the last 3 months or so has been a bit higher than previously, I can't imagine that's the reason.
I monitor the Amex App frequently, and usually there 5-20 offers. Granted, most are for luxury fashion or jewelry brands I'm not interested in, but sometimes there are more useful ones - Caffe Nero, various restaurants, hotels, etc. - or even, a couple of months ago, Wilkos (very handy for gift cards).
Regardless, there have always been some offers available - until today: "You currently have no available Offers. Please try again later." The few offers I'd saved are still there.
Is this common? Although my spend rate on the card over the last 3 months or so has been a bit higher than previously, I can't imagine that's the reason.
Jan 12, 2019, 4:37 am
#1896
Join Date: Sep 2007
Programs: AA, BA, Accor, Honors Diamond, IHG Diamond Elite and lots more....
Posts: 2,971
I've had a BA Amex for a few years and upgraded to the Premium last year.
I monitor the Amex App frequently, and usually there 5-20 offers. Granted, most are for luxury fashion or jewelry brands I'm not interested in, but sometimes there are more useful ones - Caffe Nero, various restaurants, hotels, etc. - or even, a couple of months ago, Wilkos (very handy for gift cards).
Regardless, there have always been some offers available - until today: "You currently have no available Offers. Please try again later." The few offers I'd saved are still there.
Is this common? Although my spend rate on the card over the last 3 months or so has been a bit higher than previously, I can't imagine that's the reason.
I monitor the Amex App frequently, and usually there 5-20 offers. Granted, most are for luxury fashion or jewelry brands I'm not interested in, but sometimes there are more useful ones - Caffe Nero, various restaurants, hotels, etc. - or even, a couple of months ago, Wilkos (very handy for gift cards).
Regardless, there have always been some offers available - until today: "You currently have no available Offers. Please try again later." The few offers I'd saved are still there.
Is this common? Although my spend rate on the card over the last 3 months or so has been a bit higher than previously, I can't imagine that's the reason.
Jan 12, 2019, 4:47 am
#1897
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: UK
Programs: BA GGL, BA LTG/GFL, Honors Diamond, Accor Platinum, Bonvoy Silver
Posts: 718
Jan 12, 2019, 4:50 am
#1898
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,848
Jan 14, 2019, 1:33 pm
#1900
Join Date: Apr 2017
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 1,387
No afraid not. Only one voucher per account per year, and it should be regarded as the same account after the downgrade. The counter on the web site is known to be incorrect in these circumstances.
Jan 14, 2019, 2:09 pm
#1901
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: London
Programs: BA Silver (for now)
Posts: 1,000
Mar 15, 2019, 10:55 am
#1903
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Cayman, San Diego, London
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold, AA 4MM Lifetime Platinum, Hilton Diamond, IHG Diamond Amb, Bonvoy Lifetime Gold
Posts: 1,054
UK PP card with US BA Exec number?
My wife and I live half the year in the UK and the rest in the US (homes and bank accounts in each country).
I am registered in the BA UK Exec programme and am the primary holder of a UK AMEX PP. I would like my wife to apply for a UK AMEX PP based on her UK ties, but it would be more practical for her to retain her US registration as a BA US Exec.
AMEX can't tell us if the Avios she would earn will automatically post to her US BA account, given that the card will be tied to her UK address, and the BA account to her US one.
Does anyone know if the two addresses need to be identical, please?
There's no point in having the card issued with the high fee, only to find that the Avios won't post.
I am registered in the BA UK Exec programme and am the primary holder of a UK AMEX PP. I would like my wife to apply for a UK AMEX PP based on her UK ties, but it would be more practical for her to retain her US registration as a BA US Exec.
AMEX can't tell us if the Avios she would earn will automatically post to her US BA account, given that the card will be tied to her UK address, and the BA account to her US one.
Does anyone know if the two addresses need to be identical, please?
There's no point in having the card issued with the high fee, only to find that the Avios won't post.
Mar 15, 2019, 11:00 am
#1904
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: UK
Programs: BA Nada, HH Diamond, IHG Spire AMB, Marriott Plat, Accor Gold
Posts: 510
My wife and I live half the year in the UK and the rest in the US (homes and bank accounts in each country).
I am registered in the BA UK Exec programme and am the primary holder of a UK AMEX PP. I would like my wife to apply for a UK AMEX PP based on her UK ties, but it would be more practical for her to retain her US registration as a BA US Exec.
AMEX can't tell us if the Avios she would earn will automatically post to her US BA account, given that the card will be tied to her UK address, and the BA account to her US one.
Does anyone know if the two addresses need to be identical, please?
There's no point in having the card issued with the high fee, only to find that the Avios won't post.
I am registered in the BA UK Exec programme and am the primary holder of a UK AMEX PP. I would like my wife to apply for a UK AMEX PP based on her UK ties, but it would be more practical for her to retain her US registration as a BA US Exec.
AMEX can't tell us if the Avios she would earn will automatically post to her US BA account, given that the card will be tied to her UK address, and the BA account to her US one.
Does anyone know if the two addresses need to be identical, please?
There's no point in having the card issued with the high fee, only to find that the Avios won't post.
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