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Superb Heathrow Rewards deal …. 1000 Avios / Flying Club / Miles & More miles for spending £10

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Since BAA WorldPoints relaunched as Heathrow Rewards last year, the sign-up bonuses have been pretty weak, to be honest.  Now we have a real return to form.

In conjunction with Virgin Atlantic, Heathrow Rewards is offering 1,000 points to new members who sign up and spend £10 in a single day at Heathrow before 31 May.

1000 Heathrow Rewards points can be converted into 1000 Avios, 1000 Virgin Flying Club miles, 1000 Lufthansa Miles & More miles or a £10 Heathrow shopping voucher.

Heathrow Rewards

Here are the rules:

Offer is only available to new members of the Heathrow Rewards programme who join using the above link or register their card and enter promotion code VAFEB14 before 31 May 2014.

1000 WorldPoints will be awarded when you spend £10 in a single day before 31 May 2014. Excludes Bureaux de Change purchases. One offer per member on the first £10 spend only.

The link to sign up is here.

If you are already a member, you have a couple of options:

You could sign up again under a different post and email address (work vs home etc).  As long as you send the miles to a different scheme to your other Heathrow Rewards account (eg to BAEC instead of avios.com) you should be OK.

You could sign up someone who is in your BA or avios.com household account, as you would still benefit from the miles once they had been transferred to their airline account.

Do try to take advantage of this promotion, as Heathrow Rewards bonuses do not get any better.

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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British Airways and Avios, Heathrow Rewards, Lufthansa and Miles & More, Virgin Atlantic and Flying Club

Comments (69)

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  • Flashware says:
    20 Feb20 February 07:20

    When trying to sign up my wife (Using UK as the country) we get the following error: Invalid country for this postcode/ZIP, please update.

    Have tried xxx xxx and xxxxxx, neither work. Odd….

  • AviosNewbie says:
    20 Feb20 February 07:45

    Same problem.

    But Raffles, even if I do sign up for my wife, how do I get the points in her name? I am flying through T5 tonite alone – do I just give my wife’s Heathrow Rewards number while paying?

    • Rebecca says:
      20 Feb20 February 08:28

      I set up my husband’s account and travelled alone. I just wrote down his card number. When paying with my credit card I just showed them the piece of paper with his card number. No questions were asked. His points were posted within a week.

    • Rob says:
      20 Feb20 February 08:40

      Yes, they dont care about the name on the card.

      If flying today, sign up now and post them the receipt ( or email a scan) to retroclaim, or get them to type number into the till. You can also download the card to Passbook on an iPhone.

  • Tim Millea says:
    20 Feb20 February 07:57

    Setting off via Heathrow tomorrow, is it possible to pick up a temporary card there?

    • Werner says:
      20 Feb20 February 08:02

      If you have an iPhone the virtual card may do.

      • TimS says:
        20 Feb20 February 08:08

        You can print off a temp paper card via the Heathrow Rewards website. From memory it is in your account details, on the left menu bar.

        • Flashware says:
          20 Feb20 February 08:09

          I think you can also just keep the receipt and then retro-claim.

          • Alan says:
            20 Feb20 February 08:15

            Agree that might be the simplest way, certainly in BAA Worldpoints days they were very efficient at dealing with retroclaims.

        • Tim says:
          20 Feb20 February 10:33

          Many thanks. After registering and logging in, on the right hand side there is a box labelled “My summary”. The first item is the card no. which is an active link. Click on that and there is the option to print a ‘virtual card’. Done and thanks again.

    • Rob says:
      20 Feb20 February 08:41

      Sign up today and retroclaim your purchase. Or get them to type in your number manually.

  • Scott says:
    20 Feb20 February 08:16

    Doesn’t work for me either so I’ll take that as an omen telling me not to spend money at Heathrow.

  • Scott says:
    20 Feb20 February 08:25

    Did try joining the rewards scheme through a Google search link without the promo code and exactly the same thing so obviously they don’t want British residents shopping at Heathrow.

  • AviosNewbie says:
    20 Feb20 February 08:53

    I signed up with an US address for my wife

  • Scott says:
    20 Feb20 February 09:05

    I just tried again out of curiosity and changed the country to USA whilst still entering a normal British address and it worked fine.

  • john says:
    20 Feb20 February 09:29

    I have just joined using a UK address, maybe they fixed it?

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