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 31, 2015, 2:01 am
#571
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Sheffield, UK
Programs: BA, Emirates, IHG, Accor, Marriott, Hilton
Posts: 637
If you are not using it and you are going to downgrade, you may as well do it now and get some of the £150 fee back.
Jan 31, 2015, 4:51 am
#572
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: NW London and NW Sydney
Programs: BA Diamond, Hilton Bronze, A3 Diamond, IHG *G
Posts: 6,344
Downgrading to the regular card does not affect a 241 voucher once it's been earned and added to your BAEC account. But I would wait until you actually renew so that you can continue to benefit from the better earn rate for as long as possible (unless you have diverted your spend elsewhere now you have earned the voucher?).
Once the renewal fee has billed, call up and downgrade and they will credit the fee back to your account.
Once the renewal fee has billed, call up and downgrade and they will credit the fee back to your account.
You don't have to wait for the renewal fee to show up on your statement to downgrade. If you downgrade before it has shown up, it will still show up in full and you will get most of it back shortly afterwards.
Jan 31, 2015, 5:05 am
#573
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: South Oxfordshire
Programs: Yes please
Posts: 564
Basically, the card costs 41p per day. If you value an Avios at 1p, then you need to be spending £82 per day on the paid card for it to be worthwhile keeping.
You don't have to wait for the renewal fee to show up on your statement to downgrade. If you downgrade before it has shown up, it will still show up in full and you will get most of it back shortly afterwards.
You don't have to wait for the renewal fee to show up on your statement to downgrade. If you downgrade before it has shown up, it will still show up in full and you will get most of it back shortly afterwards.
Jan 31, 2015, 5:22 am
#574
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Ether
Programs: Some, not all.
Posts: 1,595
Hopefully Amex will make the annual fees non-refundable to stop this kind of abuse. I'm sure once their finance department sees the churn %, marketing will be suitably restrained.
Jan 31, 2015, 3:21 pm
#575
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: usually LON
Programs: BA Gold (OWE), Tesco Blue, TK Elite (*G), Oyster Diamond Jubilee edition
Posts: 1,546
Feb 1, 2015, 10:27 am
#579
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: London
Programs: Amex Platinum, BA Amex, SPG Gold, Hilton Diamond, BA Exec
Posts: 32
So Amex confirmed voucher issued after upgrade is valid for two years and the card anniversary doesn't chnage. I was told a different story previously.
Do you need to call to upgrade I though I saw a post where someone said can be done online?
Do you need to call to upgrade I though I saw a post where someone said can be done online?
Feb 2, 2015, 2:06 am
#580
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
Posts: 32,146
I did mine on-line in Nov 2013 without any trouble. Took a couple of months to get the 2-4-1 I was due after the upgrade to PP, though.
Feb 2, 2015, 2:58 am
#581
formerly rxfleming
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: AUH, DXB (and GLA)
Programs: BA GGL, HHonors Diamond, Marriott Plat Elite
Posts: 2,456
Voucher was only valid for 1 year. AMEX confirmed this was normal practice.
No matter anyway, I've already used it.
Feb 2, 2015, 3:48 pm
#582
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: UK
Programs: BAEC, IHG, LeClub, HHonors
Posts: 599
Basically, the card costs 41p per day. If you value an Avios at 1p, then you need to be spending £82 per day on the paid card for it to be worthwhile keeping.
You don't have to wait for the renewal fee to show up on your statement to downgrade. If you downgrade before it has shown up, it will still show up in full and you will get most of it back shortly afterwards.
You don't have to wait for the renewal fee to show up on your statement to downgrade. If you downgrade before it has shown up, it will still show up in full and you will get most of it back shortly afterwards.
Feb 3, 2015, 1:50 am
#583
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2012
Programs: BA Gold, QF WP
Posts: 12,551
Once you've earned the companion voucher the only difference in earning is 0.5 avios on regular spend (ignoring BA spend bonus). The cost is £150/365 days = 41p/day, so at £82 spend per day the extra 0.5 avios per £ earned on a BAPP over the normal BA Amex is worth 41p which balances the annual fee.
Feb 3, 2015, 2:59 am
#584
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Here today, gone tomorrow
Programs: Nothing shiny :-(
Posts: 2,493
Once you've earned the companion voucher the only difference in earning is 0.5 avios on regular spend (ignoring BA spend bonus). The cost is £150/365 days = 41p/day, so at £82 spend per day the extra 0.5 avios per £ earned on a BAPP over the normal BA Amex is worth 41p which balances the annual fee.
Feb 3, 2015, 3:49 am
#585
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 4,648
I still don't get that low valuation. With a 2-4-1 the cash outlay on a pair of CW returns to, say UVF, is £150 (Amex PP) + £1,000 (tax and surcharge). Surely that must make the "value" of the 100,000 Avios at least £1,000?