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70 more free Avios for everyone via Avios Suitcase

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Avios Suitcase is a Facebook game that can be played by anyone with a Facebook and an avios.com (not ba.com) account.  You earn points for completing a series of social media tasks.

If you have not already signed up, you can find out more in this article and this article.

Two new ‘badges’ are now available for you to pick up.

Avios Suitcase

‘Big Reward Nomination’ earns you 50 Avios for sharing news of the ‘Avios Big Reward’ competition on your Facebook page.  Remember to set your sharing privileges to ‘Only Me’ when you do this so that your friends do not see it.

#BigReward Twitter earns you 20 Avios when you send a tweet promoting the Big Reward competition.  Handy to have a throwaway spare Twitter account for things like this ….

Avios points from Avios Suitcase no longer post overnight but seem to go across in a sweep at the end of the month.


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.

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.

Comments (18)

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  • Simon says:

    I did these a few days ago, the Twitter only got me 12 points though.

  • Mothballed says:

    Rather oddly, I now have so many Avios Suitcase stickers (by which I mean more than a giddy nine!) that I have to click ‘Load Content’ in order to bring up the rest on-screen. It’s as though they think I’m on a dial-up modem.

    Someone in the Avios web development team may have thought it would be cool to use some dynamic page loading, without considering whether it might actually be a good idea…

  • Enda says:

    Do you know if this will be considered “earning” avios in the sense that it will activate the reward flight saver avios.com booking option?

  • signol says:

    It looks like Red Spotted Hanky are doing another Fantasy Football game for the World Cup.
    And also, Loyalty Lobby is claiming that another IHG Big Win is coming for the summer.

    • pazza2000 says:

      Any idea when the points from the fantasy football season post across?

      • signol says:

        I think mine posted today, along with the first batch of F1 points!

  • andy stock says:

    Thanks Raffles, worked perfectly.

  • Anon says:

    OT. Anyone take up the 8000 avios promo for the Economist magazine and got a pro-rata refund?

  • N says:

    I have the 20 point Twitter, but can’t see ‘Big Reward Nomination’ . How do you find it?

  • Col A-B says:

    There’s another 50 Avios to be earned in the suitcase today when you complete “Big Reward Nomination Film”.

    • Col A-B says:

      Forgot to add the answer is New York – save 25 seconds of your life watching the film.

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