30% bonus when you buy Avios via Iberia Plus – a good deal?

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• jon says:

  27 Mar27 March 07:21

  Raffles,

  What about looking at this a different way. Pay €54 for 2,600 (rather than 2,000) to activate your Iberia account with a valid transaction (which in theory must actually come with a guarantee of turning up) – does this make the easiest way of crediting a valid transaction?

  • xcalx says:

    27 Mar27 March 07:34

    A free way to activate an Iberia account is to transfer some ereward points takes about 5/6days, Dont forget an ereward account can be changed to any name good for topping up FF accounts

  • Rob says:

    27 Mar27 March 07:50

    Certainly the easiest, unless you have some hotel points to transfer.

• Col A-B says:

  27 Mar27 March 08:53

  Don’t forget also that you cannot move Avios from IB Plus to a household BA Exec Club account, as I found out to my chagrin this week.

  • susan says:

    27 Mar27 March 13:53

    Move them via avios.com: iberia-avios-BA

    Have never had any problems this way and have held BAEC family for years.

    • Col A-B says:

      27 Mar27 March 14:27

      Tried that too – won’t allow me to move any way other than into IB from either BA or Avios :-/

      Luckily on 599 stuck there.

• Jamie says:

  27 Mar27 March 10:18

  As usual, loving the blog! Looking for some advice from other points lovers.

  I have been diligently saving up my points for the last 12 months and now 160,000 avios and a companion voucher, which I plan to redeem on 2 x BA First flights to Tokyo in April 2015.

  I am currently trying to hit the £2,000 spend for 20,000 membership rewards on my Amex gold charge card, which will give me the 180,000 I need – but if I don’t hit the spending in the required time, what would be the best way to purchase the remaining 20K Avios that I need?

  I have a suspicion that buying directly from BA will not be the most cost-effective option, but happy to be proved wrong.

  • Col A-B says:

    27 Mar27 March 10:34

    Could you simply buy gift vouchers for websites/stores you would normally shop in anyway on your AMEX to take you to the £2000? eg: Amazon/Sainsbury

    Or, not sure how ethical this is, book very expensive rooms on a fully refundable rate in a hotel quite far in advance, get your sign-up bonus then cancel the booking so you’re refunded after your MR points have credited & been transferred to Avios.

    • Rob says:

      27 Mar27 March 10:49

      I would personally buy a few hundred quid of vouchers for your usual supermarket chain. Easy and no risk of not using them.

  • Polly says:

    27 Mar27 March 12:05

    You could very quickly up the avios numbers with the extra 150 cc points in tesco for every £50 worth of gift cards. Buy john Lewis gift cards on line with the 3v cards, waitrose can give change from vouchers too, useful if you need milk etc. As every £1 spent gives you roughly 9 avios via the tesco route, using your amex to pay for them and scanning your tesco master card or even club card. Definitely as raffles says, get supermarket cards etc. shouldn’t take you too long. One other thing is to buy UK sterling traveller cheques via amex forex website, then pay them back into your bank account later on, as a last resort, that is. Useful short cut.

  • Polly says:

    27 Mar27 March 12:12

    Or buy Japanese yen !

• James says:

  14 Apr14 April 10:28

  Does buying Euros in cash on the BAPP card via the travel money service (as opposed to Moneycorp) still count as a purchase (rather than a cash advance) thus earning Avios AND counting towards the spending threshold to activate a bonus (2-4-1 or signup) ?

  • Rob says:

    14 Apr14 April 12:15

    Yes

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