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
Jul 8, 2015, 3:19 am
#706
Suspended
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold, UA Silver, CC Gold, SPG Gold
Posts: 2,000
Does anyone have a recent experience with Amex foreign currency? I tried it for the first time and I unknowingly exceeded the daily limit and the transaction was declined. Amex sent me a warning email that I tried to withdraw cash - I hope it's not treated as a cash advance if I try again with a lower amount. Also, looking at the headforpoints site, there used to be some offers like "spend X and earn 500 bonus Avios" - do you know if there's any ongoing deal at the moment?
I know i can get a slightly better rate at post office or M&S but my logic is
- it gets delivered
- it's not viewed as a cash advance on amex thus have 56 days credit
- I get some avios
Jul 9, 2015, 2:23 am
#707
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: London
Posts: 878
Jul 16, 2015, 6:02 am
#708
Join Date: Jul 2013
Programs: QFF Silver, BA Blue, GF Silver, 3V Emerald
Posts: 141
241 Voucher - Downgrade from Premium (Black) to Standard (Blue)
I want to downgrade my Premium BA card to the Blue one and I have a 241 voucher sitting in my BA account which I want to use, but not yet.
Will I still be able to use my 241 voucher?
Will I still be able to use my 241 voucher?
Jul 16, 2015, 8:32 am
#709
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: DWC
Programs: OWS, *A G
Posts: 626
Aug 12, 2015, 2:42 pm
#710
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: London
Programs: BA Silver, ZSL Silver
Posts: 2,552
just a quick question - does the name on Amex Gold have to match exactly the BAEC account name as it does with the BAPP? I'm wanting to refer my wife who uses her married name (and her maiden name as a middle name) for everything here but her passport (US) and therefore her BAEC account is still in her maiden name. Would she run into problems trying to transfer points?
Aug 12, 2015, 7:24 pm
#711
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
Programs: BA, VS, HH, IHG, MB, MR
Posts: 26,871
just a quick question - does the name on Amex Gold have to match exactly the BAEC account name as it does with the BAPP? I'm wanting to refer my wife who uses her married name (and her maiden name as a middle name) for everything here but her passport (US) and therefore her BAEC account is still in her maiden name. Would she run into problems trying to transfer points?
Aug 16, 2015, 7:17 am
#714
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: London
Programs: Programmes. Please!
Posts: 508
Aug 16, 2015, 3:23 pm
#715
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
Programs: BA, VS, HH, IHG, MB, MR
Posts: 26,871
Aug 17, 2015, 6:46 am
#716
Join Date: Apr 2008
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 151
Aug 19, 2015, 2:13 am
#718
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
Programs: BA, VS, HH, IHG, MB, MR
Posts: 26,871
Keep hold of the cancelled card, assuming you used it to pay the 241 taxes. Outside chance you will be asked to show it at check in.
Aug 19, 2015, 2:57 am
#719
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 4,648
Assuming that you have the PP card now and want to avoid the annual fee, why not just downgrade it to the fee free blue card? It never does any harm to have another card just in case of problems with your primary credit card.
Aug 19, 2015, 3:07 am
#720
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 37
I called yesterday to upgrade my amex to premium and trigger the 241 voucher.
They told me to do it online, just as a new card and on the last steps put my card number and this will be treated as a upgrade.
Anyone did it that way?
Can I use a referral bonus as well?
They told me to do it online, just as a new card and on the last steps put my card number and this will be treated as a upgrade.
Anyone did it that way?
Can I use a referral bonus as well?