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Get 15 free Avios per day (and earn 15,000) with Iberia’s Partners Gym promo

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Iberia Plus has launched an interesting promotion called Partners Gym.  The aim is to get you to collect Avios points with as many of Iberia’s partner programmes as possible.

To get started, you need to log in at this website using your Iberia Plus credentials.  (If you are not an Iberia Plus member yet, you can join at iberia.com – assuming the site is working properly …..)

There are two parts to this promotion – one is easy but not very worthwhile, the other is generous but very difficult if you live in the UK.

Part 1 – earn 15 Avios per day until 31 January for logging in to the site

If you go to the site above and link to either your Facebook or Twitter account, you will earn 15 Avios per day.  (With Facebook, remember that you can set it up so that when you ‘share’ the promotion it is only visible to you and not your friends.)

I’m not sure this is worth the trouble, to be honest!

However, everyone should do this once.  Why?  Because you need to earn at least 1 Avios in Iberia Plus to activate your account.  Only once your account is ‘active’ can you move Avios back and forth and to book redemptions via iberia.com (where the tax, for Iberia flights, is 75% lower than using ba.com).

So, do it once, bag your 15 Avios and keep your Iberia Plus account active.

Part 2 – collecting with Iberia partners

Iberia is offering you a bonus – which won’t arrive until the end of March – based on the number of different partners from whom you collect Avios points between now and January 31st.

The bonus is:

  • 4 partners = 150 Avios
  • 5 partners = 750 Avios
  • 6 partners = 1,500 Avios
  • 7 partners = 6,750 Avios
  • 8 or 9 partners = 9,000 Avios
  • 10+ partners = 15,000 Avios

If you live in Spain, this should be doable.  Most of us, of course, do not!

And that is the problem.  Whilst Iberia has 70 partners, a lot of them are only available in Spain.  You could – if you stayed in a lot of different hotels across a lot of different chains – possibly get up to 10.  The same goes for someone who does a lot of car hire.   Transferring Avios from American Express Membership Rewards is the only easy one to get, as would be buying some Avios, albeit at a poor price!

This is annoying, because it is very generous if you can hit 10.  Below 10, though, it isn’t really worth the trouble given the number of hotel and car hire transactions required – plus the time it will take to ensure that they all post in your Iberia Plus account.

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2024)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

Barclaycard Avios Plus card

Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard

Get 25,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £10,000 Read our full review

Barclaycard Avios card

Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

5,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £20,000 Read our full review

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending £15,000 Read our full review

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital on Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 12th May 2024, the Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa card is offering a bonus of 30,000 points, convertible into 30,000 Avios. You must have a Limited Company to apply. Click here to learn more and click here to apply.

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

Huge 30,000 points bonus until 12th May 2024 Read our full review

You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus.

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year Read our full review

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

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Comments (48)

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  • Swiss says:
    8 Dec8 December 08:13

    Sorry, feeling a little dense this morning (and don’t use facebook very often). How do you link this promotion to your facebook account?

    • Rob says:
      8 Dec8 December 09:21

      I did it via twitter, but I assume you just click the FB logo and sign in, rest is automatic.

      • Swiss says:
        9 Dec9 December 07:14

        Raffles thanks now done. Feel very foolish at how dense I was. Ah well, happens to us all sometimes…

  • Matthew Felgate says:
    8 Dec8 December 12:12

    15 Avios points per day seems pretty good.

  • pazza2000 says:
    8 Dec8 December 12:43

    OT; I’m waiting on the IB Avios to post from from a Hilton stay 6 weeks ago. Hilton insist they have sent across the Avios to Iberia and this issue is at their end, however are following it up for me. Also, of less concern, I have an e-rewards > Iberia redemption that is also about 6 weeks outstanding, where by in the past it has taken 1-2 weeks.

    • louie-m says:
      8 Dec8 December 14:35

      Ditto re the e-rewards > Iberia redemption. Again, no problems in the past.

      • pazza2000 says:
        8 Dec8 December 17:30

        Must be an issue at IB’s end, for both e-rewards and Hilton to suddenly stop carrying across.

        • Jonny says:
          8 Dec8 December 18:49

          likewise, e-rewards to iberia from around 6 weeks ago – previously have posted within a couple of days

          • Simon says:
            9 Dec9 December 23:33

            Did an e-rewards to avios transfer last week and the points appeared today, so the issue would seem to be at IB’s end as pazza2000 says.

      • louie-m says:
        13 Dec13 December 17:47

        The e-rewards points have now arrived in the Iberia account. Just very slowly this time!

    • What's the Point says:
      9 Dec9 December 21:29

      I too had the same problem with a Hilton stay not posting to Iberia. Chased Hilton twice after the 30 day period and the points appeared on my Iberia account 5 days later. I wish I knew how Hilton can get hold of someone at Iberia plus so quickly!

  • Myer says:
    8 Dec8 December 18:05

    Not wishing to bore everyone after my rather lengthy diatribe about the not receipt of award following Iberia Dual competition last June. Likewise I am awaiting credit for e-rewards, which used to be posted within 10 days.
    I opted for Iberia as opposed to BA for the double dip to get 50% more Avios, as with e-rewards, but with this sort of agro it really isn’t worth the bother.
    what I fail to understand is why they will no longer respond to my emails. I really have lost all faith in Iberia Plus. As to when, or if I manage to obtain the 15K Avios that I “won” in the Dual, remains to be seen.
    I do not intend to give up!

  • avidsaver says:
    8 Dec8 December 18:29

    Hi Raffles – Possibly a little off topic BUT having read your previous advice about the advantage of having an “active” IB Plus account I’ve taken advantage of this current offer and just opened one! My question is……after 90 days how fast do avios transfer to IB Plus from Avios.com and BAEC? Many thanks.

  • avidsaver says:
    8 Dec8 December 20:41

    Thanks Jonny – good to know that it’s instant – may come in handy!

  • pauldb says:
    9 Dec9 December 08:15

    Any idea how quickly these points will post. I need to check availability for a Vueling flight but it won’t let me do that; probably as I have no Avios. (Not that I could then book it until I become an active account eligible for transfers.)

  • gnarlyoldgoatdude says:
    10 Dec10 December 09:48

    This reminds me of the wonderful US Airways Grand Slam promotions, the last of which ran in 2011. Partners were bunched into groups of 4, so after 4 hits you received a bonus. It was relatively easy to earn 50k+ by making hotel transfers, hotel stays, renting cars etc. (all of which potentially cost a lot of money). The real trick was to minimise the cost of each hit. There were lots of genuinely free hits (e-rewards transfer, e-miles transfer, audience rewards, receiving transferred miles, spending miles on magazine subscriptions).

    Anyway, the US Airways deal had a good number of opportunities for members outside of the US. The Iberia deal on the other hand looks quite tricky.

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