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
May 8, 2018, 12:13 am
#1666
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: London
Programs: BA Silver (for now)
Posts: 1,000
I bought a (non BA) airline ticket over the weekend on 6 May, which very comfortably took me over the £10 spend for the 2-4-1, and as of today (8 May) the spend is showing as having posted on 6 May (i.e. no longer pending). Maybe the change from pending to posted only happened today, although I am not sure about that. However, although the spend has posted, my total shown for the spend necessary to trigger the 2-4-1 has not moved. Should that not have changed immediately when the transaction changed from pending ? Is manual intervention required ?
May 8, 2018, 5:58 am
#1668
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BAEC (Gold), IHG Rewards (Gold Elite), Marriot (Gold Elite), HHonors (Gold Elite), SPG (Gold)
Posts: 165
Quick question as posted on another thread but didn’t get a reply.
i currently have a regular BA AMEX, I spend quite a bit but never near the 20,000GBP to get the 2-4-1.
this year my early spending has been high (couple of nice watches :-)) and I’m already only £300 short of the £10k target I would get on BA Amex PP fo a 2-4-1.
does anybody have experience of applying for the PP card and the totals from your existing Amex transferring? Indications from older posts seem to indicate this used to happen but wondered if anybody had recent experience?
thanks.
i currently have a regular BA AMEX, I spend quite a bit but never near the 20,000GBP to get the 2-4-1.
this year my early spending has been high (couple of nice watches :-)) and I’m already only £300 short of the £10k target I would get on BA Amex PP fo a 2-4-1.
does anybody have experience of applying for the PP card and the totals from your existing Amex transferring? Indications from older posts seem to indicate this used to happen but wondered if anybody had recent experience?
thanks.
May 8, 2018, 6:15 am
#1670
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BAEC (Gold), IHG Rewards (Gold Elite), Marriot (Gold Elite), HHonors (Gold Elite), SPG (Gold)
Posts: 165
May 8, 2018, 6:27 am
#1671
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: England
Programs: BAEC Gold, UA Mileage Plus, Hotels.com Gold, Marriott Bonvoy Platinum, Pizza Express Gold
Posts: 600
Quick question as posted on another thread but didn’t get a reply.
i currently have a regular BA AMEX, I spend quite a bit but never near the 20,000GBP to get the 2-4-1.
this year my early spending has been high (couple of nice watches :-)) and I’m already only £300 short of the £10k target I would get on BA Amex PP fo a 2-4-1.
does anybody have experience of applying for the PP card and the totals from your existing Amex transferring? Indications from older posts seem to indicate this used to happen but wondered if anybody had recent experience?
thanks.
i currently have a regular BA AMEX, I spend quite a bit but never near the 20,000GBP to get the 2-4-1.
this year my early spending has been high (couple of nice watches :-)) and I’m already only £300 short of the £10k target I would get on BA Amex PP fo a 2-4-1.
does anybody have experience of applying for the PP card and the totals from your existing Amex transferring? Indications from older posts seem to indicate this used to happen but wondered if anybody had recent experience?
thanks.
May 8, 2018, 6:29 am
#1672
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BAEC (Gold), IHG Rewards (Gold Elite), Marriot (Gold Elite), HHonors (Gold Elite), SPG (Gold)
Posts: 165
I think you should call them before hitting £10K spend, otherwise there's a risk you might get the voucher with a 1 year expiry date - I think I've seen reports of that, although might be getting confused. If you upgrade before you spend £10K you'll be fine when you do hit the target.
May 8, 2018, 6:30 am
#1673
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: England
Programs: BAEC Gold, UA Mileage Plus, Hotels.com Gold, Marriott Bonvoy Platinum, Pizza Express Gold
Posts: 600
Can I just check that referring someone from a BA PP to a Gold Rewards Card definitely does get a 9,000 Avios referral bonus ? I only ask as when I click on the referral link it offers the BA PP to the person referred, I note that there is a link for the person referred to see the other cards, but does taking out any of those cards definitely give the referrer the 9,000 Avios ?
It seems odd, for example, that if a person is referred for a card which itself gives no bonus at all (I think there is a Basic card like that) the referrer should still get the referral bonus.
As a follow up, how long does the referral bonus normally take to post? I want to refer with my BAPP and am then planning to cancel it shortly afterwards.
It seems odd, for example, that if a person is referred for a card which itself gives no bonus at all (I think there is a Basic card like that) the referrer should still get the referral bonus.
As a follow up, how long does the referral bonus normally take to post? I want to refer with my BAPP and am then planning to cancel it shortly afterwards.
May 9, 2018, 6:46 am
#1674
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BAEC (Gold), IHG Rewards (Gold Elite), Marriot (Gold Elite), HHonors (Gold Elite), SPG (Gold)
Posts: 165
thanks for the advice everybody!
Jun 19, 2018, 3:00 am
#1675
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 116
Hi all,
possibly stupid question but appreciate your help in any event.
MrsMM and I both took out BAPP cards circa 8 months ago. MrsMM achieved the welcome bonus spend and cancelled, then I got a SC on my account to use as we intend to keep this as our main credit card for daily use.
my question is, would it be possible for me to now refer MrsMM for a regular BA blue card and receive the welcome bonus? We never downgraded to regularl when she cancelled her BAPP so has never held one of these cards but not sure if having a BA Amex of any sort counts as having held these cards therefore excludes you from bonuses.
possibly slightly more ambitious, once MrsMM has her card, could she refer me to a regular blue BA Amex and get a bonus for this whilst I still retain the BAPP?
thanks in advance, anything to get that next F redemption, eh!
TheMuffinMan
possibly stupid question but appreciate your help in any event.
MrsMM and I both took out BAPP cards circa 8 months ago. MrsMM achieved the welcome bonus spend and cancelled, then I got a SC on my account to use as we intend to keep this as our main credit card for daily use.
my question is, would it be possible for me to now refer MrsMM for a regular BA blue card and receive the welcome bonus? We never downgraded to regularl when she cancelled her BAPP so has never held one of these cards but not sure if having a BA Amex of any sort counts as having held these cards therefore excludes you from bonuses.
possibly slightly more ambitious, once MrsMM has her card, could she refer me to a regular blue BA Amex and get a bonus for this whilst I still retain the BAPP?
thanks in advance, anything to get that next F redemption, eh!
TheMuffinMan
Jun 19, 2018, 3:12 am
#1676
Join Date: Jun 2003
Programs: BA, IHG, 5C
Posts: 4,413
As long as she has not held her own BA Amex for six months, she'll get another bonus. The supplementary card on your account is irrelevant.
You cannot hold (or get a bonus) for a free BA Amex while you hold a BA PP.
These days for can refer from any card to any other. As the referrer you get 9000 avios on your BAPP regardless which card they go for. The link sent to your wife will offer her the BAPP primarily but have other options below. Therefore even once she has the free BAPP, it may be a better option for you to refer her for another card, rather than her refer you for one. The Gold Amex and/or the SPG card will give you referrer's bonuses and she'll get a bonus that can be converted to avios or otherwise.
You cannot hold (or get a bonus) for a free BA Amex while you hold a BA PP.
These days for can refer from any card to any other. As the referrer you get 9000 avios on your BAPP regardless which card they go for. The link sent to your wife will offer her the BAPP primarily but have other options below. Therefore even once she has the free BAPP, it may be a better option for you to refer her for another card, rather than her refer you for one. The Gold Amex and/or the SPG card will give you referrer's bonuses and she'll get a bonus that can be converted to avios or otherwise.
Jun 22, 2018, 1:27 am
#1679
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 116
No, neither MrsMM nor I got bonuses when we added each other as SC holders on our respective BAPP cards (this was in December and January)
however earlier in this thread someone mentioned bonus avios for adding SC holders, so maybe this is an exclusive email out offer which has launched later
TheMuffinMan
however earlier in this thread someone mentioned bonus avios for adding SC holders, so maybe this is an exclusive email out offer which has launched later
TheMuffinMan
Jun 27, 2018, 2:44 am
#1680
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: All good weekends in the UK begin at Heathrow :)
Programs: Amex MR, A3, BAEC
Posts: 195
Has anyone else noticed a distinct lack of Amex Offers on their BA (PP) and Gold cards? I seem to have loads on my Platinum Charge, but BA and Gold cards are literally zero. Have been using all cards; in fact the Gold one is my main card. Seems very odd.
