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
Mar 17, 2019, 7:26 am
#1906
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 23
My wife and I live half the year in the UK and the rest in the US (homes and bank accounts in each country).
I am registered in the BA UK Exec programme and am the primary holder of a UK AMEX PP. I would like my wife to apply for a UK AMEX PP based on her UK ties, but it would be more practical for her to retain her US registration as a BA US Exec.
AMEX can't tell us if the Avios she would earn will automatically post to her US BA account, given that the card will be tied to her UK address, and the BA account to her US one.
Does anyone know if the two addresses need to be identical, please?
There's no point in having the card issued with the high fee, only to find that the Avios won't post.
I am registered in the BA UK Exec programme and am the primary holder of a UK AMEX PP. I would like my wife to apply for a UK AMEX PP based on her UK ties, but it would be more practical for her to retain her US registration as a BA US Exec.
AMEX can't tell us if the Avios she would earn will automatically post to her US BA account, given that the card will be tied to her UK address, and the BA account to her US one.
Does anyone know if the two addresses need to be identical, please?
There's no point in having the card issued with the high fee, only to find that the Avios won't post.
Mar 21, 2019, 4:53 am
#1907
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,015
https://www.headforpoints.com/2019/0...p-bonus-rules/
Game changer for many. AMEX ends multi-sign up bonuses with immediate effect.
Game changer for many. AMEX ends multi-sign up bonuses with immediate effect.
Mar 21, 2019, 5:02 am
#1908
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: London
Programs: Mucci. Nothing else matters.
Posts: 38,644
https://www.headforpoints.com/2019/0...p-bonus-rules/
Game changer for many. AMEX ends multi-sign up bonuses with immediate effect.
Game changer for many. AMEX ends multi-sign up bonuses with immediate effect.
Mar 21, 2019, 8:04 am
#1910
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: MAN
Programs: IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 351
Game over for many people who churn cards regularly to use their 2-4-1 vouchers. Unless you're earning plenty of Avios from flights or other sources, trying to build up a pot large enough for J or F redemptions frequently will become really difficult.
Mar 21, 2019, 9:58 am
#1911
Join Date: Jul 2016
Programs: BA Bronze SPG
Posts: 273
The only people benefitting from the F/J now will be those that fly regularly at their employer's expense. For the average person on the street, the Tesco travellers, it will put such travel out of their reach. Soon about to have my J/F trip to HKG courtesy of the 241 and sign-up bonuses. Getting another 241 wont be a problem, getting the amount of avios required will! When I let my friends know how we got to Australia in business/first class then I might be inundated with requests for Amex referrals but I wont hold my breath!
Mar 21, 2019, 10:15 am
#1913
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: United Kingdom
Programs: BAEC Blue, Flying Blue Silver, Hilton Gold, Marriot Gold
Posts: 817
Mar 21, 2019, 10:35 am
#1914
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: UK
Programs: Lemonia. Best Greek ever.
Posts: 2,271
Er, rather off the thread topic, for which I hope I might be forgiven.
AA Gill described Lemonia as the best Greek restaurant in the UK. His mum told him that he had to write that. And The Times published it. And it is true.
AA Gill described Lemonia as the best Greek restaurant in the UK. His mum told him that he had to write that. And The Times published it. And it is true.
Mar 21, 2019, 4:53 pm
#1915
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON, ATH
Programs: A3*G, BA Gold, OA Gold (in memoriam), Hertz #1 Gold
Posts: 548
Well OPSO is better but yes, lemonia is the best old school greek
Apr 13, 2019, 11:02 am
#1916
Join Date: Feb 2017
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 147
Sorry if this has been covered (I am sure it has, I just can't find it!).
I have the blue card, and am 10 days away from the end of the collection year - I am well over the £10k of spend. If I upgrade to the black premium plus card, I know that the existing spend will trigger the 2-4-1 voucher, but how long does it take to trigger the voucher after you upgrade the card? Given that they will take the fee pretty quickly, I don't fancy paying and then missing it by a day - particularly with there being several public holidays am concerned it might take longer than normal.
I have the blue card, and am 10 days away from the end of the collection year - I am well over the £10k of spend. If I upgrade to the black premium plus card, I know that the existing spend will trigger the 2-4-1 voucher, but how long does it take to trigger the voucher after you upgrade the card? Given that they will take the fee pretty quickly, I don't fancy paying and then missing it by a day - particularly with there being several public holidays am concerned it might take longer than normal.
Apr 13, 2019, 11:54 am
#1917
Join Date: May 2018
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 219
Sorry if this has been covered (I am sure it has, I just can't find it!).
I have the blue card, and am 10 days away from the end of the collection year - I am well over the £10k of spend. If I upgrade to the black premium plus card, I know that the existing spend will trigger the 2-4-1 voucher, but how long does it take to trigger the voucher after you upgrade the card? Given that they will take the fee pretty quickly, I don't fancy paying and then missing it by a day - particularly with there being several public holidays am concerned it might take longer than normal.
I have the blue card, and am 10 days away from the end of the collection year - I am well over the £10k of spend. If I upgrade to the black premium plus card, I know that the existing spend will trigger the 2-4-1 voucher, but how long does it take to trigger the voucher after you upgrade the card? Given that they will take the fee pretty quickly, I don't fancy paying and then missing it by a day - particularly with there being several public holidays am concerned it might take longer than normal.
The fee is refundable pro-rata, so the risk is only that you'd lose a tenner or so (you can downgrade to blue again afterwards).
I'd go for it now - I reckon you'll be fine.
Apr 14, 2019, 3:05 am
#1919
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: living near Malaga
Programs: BA Gold , Mucci recipient. Coffee Drinker, Blue Sky Thinker
Posts: 2,111
Apr 14, 2019, 3:43 am
#1920
Join Date: Apr 2017
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 1,387
I'm surprised you have both - I thought the black card replaced the blue one, but on the same card account?