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
Oct 16, 2018, 12:49 pm
#1801
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Somewhere around Europe...
Programs: BA Gold; MB Ti; HH Diamond; IHG Plat; RR Gold
Posts: 530
Ticketmaster don’t normally allocate tickets to specific people, so buying on behalf of another should be fine. Happy to hear of any other experiences though!
Oct 16, 2018, 12:54 pm
#1802
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Dundee
Programs: BA Plastic. HH Diamond. Speedwell Bar Lifetime Platinum.
Posts: 1,425
Good to hear, I did look on TM's website about gifts, so it looks concert dependant.
Oct 23, 2018, 3:55 pm
#1803
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: GLA
Programs: BAEC GGL CCR, HHonors DIA
Posts: 148
I'm thinking of referring my dad to get the BA premium amex card, I am doing it mainly for the avios I would get off his spend (and the companion voucher), can I just stick my my BAEC details in there so the avios and the voucher comes to me, or does this get checked/verified somewhere along the way?
Oct 24, 2018, 6:24 am
#1805
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: All good weekends in the UK begin at Heathrow :)
Programs: Amex MR, A3, BAEC
Posts: 195
My six months being BA-card-free will be up at the middle of the month where I'll apply again for the BAPP. Hope you all won't save the offer for yourselves and leave me with nothing!!
Oct 25, 2018, 5:10 am
#1806
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 246
Hi,
I have the following timeline with my BA Amex:
December 2017 - Opened black card
April 2018 - Triggered Companion voucher so downgraded to Blue card
My card is currently showing the line graph of £12k spend (£8k away from a one year companion voucher). Note this spend would have included the amount that I used to get my first companion voucher. If I were to upgrade the card ow would this trigger a second voucher?
Thanks
I have the following timeline with my BA Amex:
December 2017 - Opened black card
April 2018 - Triggered Companion voucher so downgraded to Blue card
My card is currently showing the line graph of £12k spend (£8k away from a one year companion voucher). Note this spend would have included the amount that I used to get my first companion voucher. If I were to upgrade the card ow would this trigger a second voucher?
Thanks
Oct 25, 2018, 5:19 am
#1807
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, ITA Club Executive, Hilton Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 3,599
Hi,
I have the following timeline with my BA Amex:
December 2017 - Opened black card
April 2018 - Triggered Companion voucher so downgraded to Blue card
My card is currently showing the line graph of £12k spend (£8k away from a one year companion voucher). Note this spend would have included the amount that I used to get my first companion voucher. If I were to upgrade the card ow would this trigger a second voucher?
Thanks
I have the following timeline with my BA Amex:
December 2017 - Opened black card
April 2018 - Triggered Companion voucher so downgraded to Blue card
My card is currently showing the line graph of £12k spend (£8k away from a one year companion voucher). Note this spend would have included the amount that I used to get my first companion voucher. If I were to upgrade the card ow would this trigger a second voucher?
Thanks
Oct 25, 2018, 5:35 am
#1808
Join Date: Oct 2018
Programs: BAEC Bronze
Posts: 47
Is this sort of offer something that happens often?
Oct 26, 2018, 4:50 am
#1810
Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 447
Can someone be kind enough to check my thoughts on this? I think I'm right, but BA say different. I recently redeemed two reward seats from LHR-SCL-LHR using a BA Amex 2-4-1 voucher.
Got each leg in J as a one way as the seats were released, then when I booked the return I applied the voucher across both legs.
Then, as soon as availability came up, I upgraded the outbound to F, then later the inbound in F.
In terms of cash, I paid the following for 2 people when booking;
LHR-SCL - £782.82
SCL-LHR - £443.20
Upgrade LHR-SCL - £70.00
Upgrade SCL-LHR - £100.00
The taxes for 2 pax on LHR-SCL-LHR in J/F are £1,139.46.
I've been charged £782.82 + £443.20 = £1,226.02.
Also, the upgrade fee for SCL-LHR should have been £70.00 (£35pp). I seem to have been charged the extra fee for doing the transaction over the phone, even though there was no way I could have done it online.
Am I due a refund from BA on this? BA Twitter team suggesting not...
Got each leg in J as a one way as the seats were released, then when I booked the return I applied the voucher across both legs.
Then, as soon as availability came up, I upgraded the outbound to F, then later the inbound in F.
In terms of cash, I paid the following for 2 people when booking;
LHR-SCL - £782.82
SCL-LHR - £443.20
Upgrade LHR-SCL - £70.00
Upgrade SCL-LHR - £100.00
The taxes for 2 pax on LHR-SCL-LHR in J/F are £1,139.46.
I've been charged £782.82 + £443.20 = £1,226.02.
Also, the upgrade fee for SCL-LHR should have been £70.00 (£35pp). I seem to have been charged the extra fee for doing the transaction over the phone, even though there was no way I could have done it online.
Am I due a refund from BA on this? BA Twitter team suggesting not...
Oct 26, 2018, 4:57 am
#1811
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: England
Programs: BAEC Gold, UA Mileage Plus, Hotels.com Gold, Marriott Bonvoy Platinum, Pizza Express Gold
Posts: 603
Can someone be kind enough to check my thoughts on this? I think I'm right, but BA say different. I recently redeemed two reward seats from LHR-SCL-LHR using a BA Amex 2-4-1 voucher.
Got each leg in J as a one way as the seats were released, then when I booked the return I applied the voucher across both legs.
Then, as soon as availability came up, I upgraded the outbound to F, then later the inbound in F.
In terms of cash, I paid the following for 2 people when booking;
LHR-SCL - £782.82
SCL-LHR - £443.20
Upgrade LHR-SCL - £70.00
Upgrade SCL-LHR - £100.00
The taxes for 2 pax on LHR-SCL-LHR in J/F are £1,139.46.
I've been charged £782.82 + £443.20 = £1,226.02.
Also, the upgrade fee for SCL-LHR should have been £70.00 (£35pp). I seem to have been charged the extra fee for doing the transaction over the phone, even though there was no way I could have done it online.
Am I due a refund from BA on this? BA Twitter team suggesting not...
Got each leg in J as a one way as the seats were released, then when I booked the return I applied the voucher across both legs.
Then, as soon as availability came up, I upgraded the outbound to F, then later the inbound in F.
In terms of cash, I paid the following for 2 people when booking;
LHR-SCL - £782.82
SCL-LHR - £443.20
Upgrade LHR-SCL - £70.00
Upgrade SCL-LHR - £100.00
The taxes for 2 pax on LHR-SCL-LHR in J/F are £1,139.46.
I've been charged £782.82 + £443.20 = £1,226.02.
Also, the upgrade fee for SCL-LHR should have been £70.00 (£35pp). I seem to have been charged the extra fee for doing the transaction over the phone, even though there was no way I could have done it online.
Am I due a refund from BA on this? BA Twitter team suggesting not...
Making two separate online bookings is great if you're going East, but can be very expensive if going to North America. It's a slightly higher cost for South America - I was just happy to have got the return seats, having failed the night before.
Oct 26, 2018, 5:05 am
#1812
Join Date: May 2016
Location: UK
Programs: British Airways Executive Club Gold, Global Entry
Posts: 363
I'm thinking of referring my dad to get the BA premium amex card, I am doing it mainly for the avios I would get off his spend (and the companion voucher), can I just stick my my BAEC details in there so the avios and the voucher comes to me, or does this get checked/verified somewhere along the way?
Oct 26, 2018, 7:47 am
#1813
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: London
Programs: Mucci. Nothing else matters.
Posts: 38,644
If so, thes two figures are not comparable. The TFC are likely to be different if you book as two one-ways, compared to the TFC for the round-trip ticket.
FWIW, today's figures for these alternatives:-
LHR-SCL: £391.44
SCL-LHR: £223.60
LHR-SCL-LHR: £534.54
So these differences appear to be broadly consistent with the figures you gave.
Oct 27, 2018, 11:01 am
#1815
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: UK (currently)
Programs: BA Gold (and many other greater and lesser distinctions)
Posts: 7,208
I have saved the Harvey Nichols £30 back on a £100 spend on a couple of cards, but really want to buy gift cards. It says in the T&C (as usual) that gift cards are not eligible, but I have a vague recollection of doing this a few years ago and getting the credit. Can anyone confirm practical experience on this at HN (or elsewhere ) ?