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 6, 2019, 2:31 am
#2026
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 136
I just paid the balance of my BA holidays booking one day before receiving that email!!! Im really trying not to work out the math of how many extra Avios i would have got on £6545
Lesson learnt not to be to eager to pay off credit debits.
Lesson learnt not to be to eager to pay off credit debits.
Dec 17, 2019, 6:43 am
#2028
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Canary Wharf, London
Programs: MyWaitrose, IC Spire Ambassador, Hilton Diamond & BAEC Gold
Posts: 2,685
Are people seeing the bonus avios show up on the transactions page or just the usual base avios and they will hopefully show up later?
Dec 17, 2019, 7:28 am
#2031
Join Date: Jul 2013
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond *, IHG, Couples Romance Rewards
Posts: 2,351
Dec 17, 2019, 7:29 am
#2032
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Canary Wharf, London
Programs: MyWaitrose, IC Spire Ambassador, Hilton Diamond & BAEC Gold
Posts: 2,685
Thanks firstlight that's another call to Amex to make then!
Jan 1, 2020, 4:03 am
#2033
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL/CR; Hilton Diamond; Mucci des Puccis
Posts: 5,610
Credits for the extra avios seem random and sporadic. I had a few credit quickly, others not crediting at all, other numbers not really tying up, and one random large credit which may or may not be an aggregated single value. No credits for anything below £4 (as expected), other credits seem to round to the nearest £4 increment.
Jan 1, 2020, 4:14 am
#2034
Join Date: Jul 2013
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond *, IHG, Couples Romance Rewards
Posts: 2,351
Credits for the extra avios seem random and sporadic. I had a few credit quickly, others not crediting at all, other numbers not really tying up, and one random large credit which may or may not be an aggregated single value. No credits for anything below £4 (as expected), other credits seem to round to the nearest £4 increment.
I think their program calculated an aggregate amount of avios based on transactions three days previously but for me the program broke down on 13th december and didn't start working again until 28th
Jan 2, 2020, 5:12 am
#2035
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: London, UK
Programs: Not much these days: BA Silver, Bonvoy Lifetime Gold, HH Gold
Posts: 1,326
My BA Amex offers seem to be all over the place - looks like I've been getting Bonus Avios on TfL spend, which was mentioned on HFP but for which I wasn't targeted and it never appeared on my account; I haven't got any of my Bonus Avios on December spend despite getting the email (T&Cs say that it can take up to 90 days from 27 Dec for them to appear so I guess I have to wait before querying); I've got Shop Small money back on some purchases made after Christmas; and I've had emails but no refunds for a couple of other Amex Offers. Feels like their systems are in a bit of a mess at the moment...
Jan 2, 2020, 9:08 am
#2036
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Sheffield, UK
Programs: BA, Emirates, IHG, Accor, Marriott, Hilton
Posts: 637
Only had one issue with the statement credits and that was for Esso - didn't even track.
Everything else has been working OK and after a spate of not getting any tracking emails I am getting them again.
The only other issue I had is for my Amex SPG which I suddenly started getting printed statements for despite it being online only on my account - a call and raised to their IT team appears to have sorted this.
Everything else has been working OK and after a spate of not getting any tracking emails I am getting them again.
The only other issue I had is for my Amex SPG which I suddenly started getting printed statements for despite it being online only on my account - a call and raised to their IT team appears to have sorted this.
Jan 19, 2020, 3:58 am
#2037
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Scotland
Programs: BA Exec Club (Silver)
Posts: 454
My Avios haven't transferred into my BA EC account yet this month. They show as "leaving" my BA AMEX PP account on 13th January. Normally they credit within 24 hours and show on my BA account on around 14th - 15th of each month. As of this morning (19th) they still hadn't credited to my BA EC account so I had an online live chat with Amex customer services. Very quick and very helpful. Apparently there is currently a known issue with BAs systems "accepting" Avios being transferred from Amex. The assistant informed me they are working with BA to resolve this. He couldn't give me a timescale but has forwarded my query to the relevant dept. and informed me they should show in my account in the next few days.
Jan 19, 2020, 4:35 am
#2038
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 95
Hi, sorry if this has been raised and answered before, I've had a search but couldn't find anything. Has anyone else noticed that if you make a multiple person booking, this is showing up as separate charges on your Amex statement?
Just had a mini freak out at multiple lines appearing on the same day, but then dawned on me what they were doing.. Is this a new thing?
Just had a mini freak out at multiple lines appearing on the same day, but then dawned on me what they were doing.. Is this a new thing?
Jan 19, 2020, 4:49 am
#2039
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BA, Hilton
Posts: 2,091
On your full PDF statement it will have the ticket number and passenger details for each individual entry.
The total amount paid should of course be correct
Jan 19, 2020, 5:27 am
#2040
Join Date: May 2007
Programs: BA Blue, EI Silver, Honours Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 1,209
Same for me. Quite a lot of detail on the PDF statement really, which is great for reconciling various trips to various accounts.