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
Nov 11, 2018, 9:36 am
#1862
Join Date: Nov 2018
Posts: 66
Hello there - wondering if anyone would be able to help. I transferred 1500 Member Reward Points from my Gold card to my BAEC account - however a week later they haven't shown up. American Express just fobbing me off to BA, but can't find contact information for them regarding this. Anyone else having delays? It was the first time I've transferred to my BAEC account but they verified my membership number and it was correct. TIA.
Nov 11, 2018, 9:40 am
#1863
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: BAEC Silver, Hilton Honors Gold
Posts: 627
Nov 11, 2018, 9:47 am
#1864
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: All good weekends in the UK begin at Heathrow :)
Programs: Amex MR, A3, BAEC
Posts: 195
Wilko sells giftcards, as does WH Smiths. Superdrug does but only for superdrug spend. I've had offers on my BA cards now for Wilkos, WHSmith, Superdrug and Amazon. Everything so far has credited, just seeing if the partner card does as well as my wife had the same offers independently.
I've had similar offers on my Gold Rewards card and SPG, to the point where I have quite a wad of John Lewis cards plus a healthy Amazon balance.
One offer I haven't managed to trigger is the Paypal one. I've spent £30 in one transaction both at Opado and via ebay, but so far nothing. Anyone had anything come in for that one?
Amex are certainly going into overdrive on offers at the moment, which is welcome after a quiet period.
I've had similar offers on my Gold Rewards card and SPG, to the point where I have quite a wad of John Lewis cards plus a healthy Amazon balance.
One offer I haven't managed to trigger is the Paypal one. I've spent £30 in one transaction both at Opado and via ebay, but so far nothing. Anyone had anything come in for that one?
Amex are certainly going into overdrive on offers at the moment, which is welcome after a quiet period.
PayPal offer would be great though as well. I currently have my curve linked to PayPal as Amex doesn’t make sense. That will change soon though.
Nov 11, 2018, 9:49 am
#1865
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: All good weekends in the UK begin at Heathrow :)
Programs: Amex MR, A3, BAEC
Posts: 195
Hmm that’s interesting. Where in the store do Superdrug have these gift cards? Is it by the tills? If so I need to go back and have a more thorough look around as this could work well!
Nov 11, 2018, 1:39 pm
#1868
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, VS Red, HH Gold, IHG Gold, Marriott Gold, SPG Basic, Alitalia Status Match
Posts: 1,173
Yes, by the tills in both of my two local stores. I always ask about gift cards when there are Amex offers in high street shops where I'd struggle to spend the offer amount.
Nov 11, 2018, 3:23 pm
#1869
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: All good weekends in the UK begin at Heathrow :)
Programs: Amex MR, A3, BAEC
Posts: 195
Nov 12, 2018, 7:58 am
#1870
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: All good weekends in the UK begin at Heathrow :)
Programs: Amex MR, A3, BAEC
Posts: 195
Managed to get a £50 Amazon gift card from Superdrug and have applied to my Amazon account. Weird thing was the gift cards were NOT at the till. I asked and they pointed me to a corner where they had the usual (physical) gift card which also included Next, Accesories (Accesorize?), Google Play and a few others.
Thought I'd mention this in case it helps any other members.
Thought I'd mention this in case it helps any other members.
Nov 12, 2018, 10:58 am
#1872
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, VS Red, HH Gold, IHG Gold, Marriott Gold, SPG Basic, Alitalia Status Match
Posts: 1,173
Managed to get a £50 Amazon gift card from Superdrug and have applied to my Amazon account. Weird thing was the gift cards were NOT at the till. I asked and they pointed me to a corner where they had the usual (physical) gift card which also included Next, Accesories (Accesorize?), Google Play and a few others.
Thought I'd mention this in case it helps any other members.
Thought I'd mention this in case it helps any other members.
Nov 12, 2018, 12:05 pm
#1873
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The North
Posts: 1,844
I’d be interested to know whether these purchases credit - as in theory, Amex doesn’t know you’ve purchased a gift card, surely? They just see a charge of however much to a specific retailer?
Has anyone been able to confirm that this works?
Has anyone been able to confirm that this works?
Nov 12, 2018, 1:52 pm
#1875
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 783