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 19, 2020, 6:23 am
#2041
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Lincolnshire, UK
Programs: BA GGL - maybe only briefly!
Posts: 1,378
Same here - not that much appears on the online account but when the statement is raised it seems to have a lot more detail - including the route details. Didn't help when I was buying a surprise trip - all well initially but the cat was out of the bag once the statement was raised! Always been separate line per person for us too.
Jan 20, 2020, 12:54 am
#2042
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Up North.
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 311
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.
Have yours appeared now? If so I might have to hassle them myself...
Jan 20, 2020, 2:28 am
#2043
Join Date: Jul 2010
Programs: BD Silver, HH Gold, BA Silver, CX Gold
Posts: 443
It might not be new - but I've only just noticed it. My BA Premium has a £300+ for 3000 avios offer on BA spend on it. Expires 16th Feb. Handy as I have a holiday booking so a bit of motivation to chip away at it :-)
Jan 20, 2020, 2:35 am
#2044
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Scotland
Programs: BA Exec Club (Silver)
Posts: 451
I’d assume the more people start hassling them, the more urgency they’ll place on fixing it so it’s probably worth contacting them.
Jan 20, 2020, 4:55 am
#2045
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
Programs: Mucci, BAEC, Eurostar
Posts: 3,286
Same here, got it this morning. Now all I need are a 20% of Heathrow Express (my carnet is running out) and a 200 back on 600 with Amex Travel. They were usually January offers...
Jan 21, 2020, 6:52 am
#2046
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Scotland
Programs: BA Exec Club (Silver)
Posts: 451
They finally posted this morning and the transaction is dated 21/01. No idea if it’s related to the fix they have apparently been working on or if it’s just a coincidence however a couple of e-store transactions that have been sitting as “pending” for several months have also posted on my BAEC account this morning.
Last edited by GlasgowBlue; Jan 21, 2020 at 11:33 am
Jan 21, 2020, 7:11 am
#2047
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
Programs: Mucci, BAEC, Eurostar
Posts: 3,286
Yup, but mine say "Transaction date Jan 13", and "Posted Jan 21". I have a feeling this had something to do with the Bonus Avios per each 4 pounds spent that was running in December, because they posted at the same time under AMEX RETAIL BONUS AVIOS.
Jan 25, 2020, 8:39 am
#2050
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: UK
Programs: Mucci, Diamond Status & on the Supreme Council des Conseillers, BA Ag, Bonvoy GFL/Plat, xVS Au
Posts: 832
Hi all, apologies if this is already covered. Have the introductory bonus conditions changed yet again so that you only get the bonus if you haven’t had any personal Amex in last 24 months rather than any BA Amex? My referral t&cs still say you only need not have had a BA Amex but the general website ones now seem to indicate you can’t have had any Amex?
Grateful for any confirmation one way or the other as looking to refer a friend who has recently had the Gold Amex.
Grateful for any confirmation one way or the other as looking to refer a friend who has recently had the Gold Amex.
Feb 2, 2020, 6:39 am
#2052
Join Date: Jun 2011
Programs: BAEC Gold, HHonors Gold, Marriot Bonvoy Gold, MeliaRewards Gold, Radisson Gold
Posts: 816
Hi all, apologies if this is already covered. Have the introductory bonus conditions changed yet again so that you only get the bonus if you haven’t had any personal Amex in last 24 months rather than any BA Amex? My referral t&cs still say you only need not have had a BA Amex but the general website ones now seem to indicate you can’t have had any Amex?
Grateful for any confirmation one way or the other as looking to refer a friend who has recently had the Gold Amex.
Grateful for any confirmation one way or the other as looking to refer a friend who has recently had the Gold Amex.
And it does indeed say in the referral T&Cs that are shown to me on my SPG card that the welcome points will not be given to my friend if they have held ANY American Express product in the last 24 months.
Feb 2, 2020, 7:04 am
#2053
Join Date: Jun 2011
Programs: BAEC Gold, HHonors Gold, Marriot Bonvoy Gold, MeliaRewards Gold, Radisson Gold
Posts: 816
Feb 2, 2020, 10:28 am
#2055
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
Programs: BA, VS, HH, IHG, MB, MR
Posts: 26,871
My recent data point suggests they are now looking across the Membership Rewards, BA and Marriott card products - and if you take out a card and have had ANY type of product with them in the last 2 years, they will not give you the bonus. I recently went from BAPP to the SPG/Marriott card and my bonus was not awarded. I was sure I'd seen Raffles say you could go from BA to SPG and get the welcome bonus, but apparently no longer (although I may have been reading an old HFP article).
And it does indeed say in the referral T&Cs that are shown to me on my SPG card that the welcome points will not be given to my friend if they have held ANY American Express product in the last 24 months.
And it does indeed say in the referral T&Cs that are shown to me on my SPG card that the welcome points will not be given to my friend if they have held ANY American Express product in the last 24 months.
BAPP - rule is no BA Amex for the last 24 months, but no problem with Gold, Plat, SPG, Nectar etc