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 12, 2017, 8:43 am
#1321
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Canary Wharf, London
Programs: MyWaitrose, IC Spire Ambassador, Hilton Diamond & BAEC Gold
Posts: 2,685
I completely missed this a few months ago, but you can now use Amex Pay in the UK via their own app on Android phones for NFC payments. Annoying that they haven't joined Android Pay yet but at least it's a start.
It was one of the reasons I moved to an iPhone but may go back if Google release a nice phone.
It was one of the reasons I moved to an iPhone but may go back if Google release a nice phone.
Jan 23, 2017, 4:24 am
#1323
Join Date: Oct 2004
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 1,008
Has anyone noticed the new amex referral page? I have a BAPP Card and an amex cashback card currently, i can only refer people to those two cards - i can no longer use my BAPP to refer someone for the free BA credit card....tightening of the rules or is there a way around this???
Thanks
GavT
Thanks
GavT
Jan 23, 2017, 4:28 am
#1324
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Surrey, UK
Programs: Hilton Diamond, Amex Platinum
Posts: 89
Has anyone noticed the new amex referral page? I have a BAPP Card and an amex cashback card currently, i can only refer people to those two cards - i can no longer use my BAPP to refer someone for the free BA credit card....tightening of the rules or is there a way around this???
Thanks
GavT
Thanks
GavT
Jan 23, 2017, 4:41 am
#1325
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: BAEC Silver, Hilton Honors Gold
Posts: 627
Has anyone noticed the new amex referral page? I have a BAPP Card and an amex cashback card currently, i can only refer people to those two cards - i can no longer use my BAPP to refer someone for the free BA credit card....tightening of the rules or is there a way around this???
Thanks
GavT
Thanks
GavT
https://www.americanexpress.com/uk/c...onditions.html
Jan 24, 2017, 3:10 pm
#1326
Join Date: Dec 2014
Programs: British Airways Executive Club Gold
Posts: 1,073
Using my Amex to buy sterling travellers cheque to pay for driving lessons
Hello,
I am in the process of learning to drive. The school which i choose only takes cash, Visa, MasterCard and cheques. I wonder if i can just go to the post office and buy the sterling cheque and hand it in to the Instructor? Does it count as a pirchase or a cash advance? I really want to earn the signup bonus on the free amex card...
Thanks a lot.
P.s. Imagine the horror when you pay with a travellers cheque these days
I am in the process of learning to drive. The school which i choose only takes cash, Visa, MasterCard and cheques. I wonder if i can just go to the post office and buy the sterling cheque and hand it in to the Instructor? Does it count as a pirchase or a cash advance? I really want to earn the signup bonus on the free amex card...
Thanks a lot.
P.s. Imagine the horror when you pay with a travellers cheque these days
Jan 24, 2017, 3:27 pm
#1327
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: living near Malaga
Programs: BA Gold , Mucci recipient. Coffee Drinker, Blue Sky Thinker
Posts: 2,111
Hello,
I am in the process of learning to drive. The school which i choose only takes cash, Visa, MasterCard and cheques. I wonder if i can just go to the post office and buy the sterling cheque and hand it in to the Instructor? Does it count as a pirchase or a cash advance? I really want to earn the signup bonus on the free amex card...
Thanks a lot.
P.s. Imagine the horror when you pay with a travellers cheque these days
I am in the process of learning to drive. The school which i choose only takes cash, Visa, MasterCard and cheques. I wonder if i can just go to the post office and buy the sterling cheque and hand it in to the Instructor? Does it count as a pirchase or a cash advance? I really want to earn the signup bonus on the free amex card...
Thanks a lot.
P.s. Imagine the horror when you pay with a travellers cheque these days
Jan 24, 2017, 3:29 pm
#1328
Join Date: Dec 2014
Programs: British Airways Executive Club Gold
Posts: 1,073
Thats true! I wonder if i can use my amex to pay for the cheques? Can't fimd the optjon to use amex on the post office webpage...
Last edited by cysyuen; Jan 24, 2017 at 3:42 pm
Jan 24, 2017, 5:16 pm
#1332
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC, VS, Marriott, HH, Hertz PC
Posts: 270
I think the question is actually regarding a BA Amex Card, in which case you don't have to do anything to move them, they will go across automatically once a month to your BAEC account. Nothing you can do AFAIK to hasten them across I'm afraid.
Jan 24, 2017, 5:24 pm
#1333
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC, VS, Marriott, HH, Hertz PC
Posts: 270
Also worth doing this as the voucher you would earn under the Premium Plus card would have a 2 year validity v 1 year validity if earned from free card.
Jan 24, 2017, 11:21 pm
#1334
Join Date: Jun 2003
Programs: BA, IHG, 5C
Posts: 4,413
They should be swept over to your BAEC account monthly. If they aren't there may be something wrong in the linkage (e.g. if your BAEC account isn't UK basd?).
Jan 25, 2017, 1:29 am
#1335
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 308
Are there any restrictions on the type of open-jaw tickets that can be booked with the companion voucher? I want to book EDI-LHR-BLL out and TLS-LHR-EDI back. I realize this isn't great value for the voucher but it's either that or it expires.