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Save £15 tax on eight Club Europe routes via avios.com

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On top of the British Airways and Iberia sale deals, avios.com has slipped out a small Club Europe promotion of its own.

If you book and travel before December 31st, the tax on Club Europe tickets to the following destinations is reduced from £50 to £35:

Amsterdam

Bologna

Dublin

Dusseldorf

Frankfurt

Lisbon

Oslo

Stockholm

These deals are ONLY available if you book via avios.com.  If your Avios points sit in British Airways Executive Club, you will need to move them across to avios.com using Combine My Avios.

The deal effectively equalises the tax between Eurotraveller and Club Europe, which means that the only difference is the additional Avios.  If you are relatively Avios rich and do not have lounge access via BA status, I would be tempted to jump on this.  You can drink your way through the value of the additional Avios if nothing else ….

Full details can be found here at avios.com – see the box halfway down the right hand side.


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 (9)

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  • Nick says:

    Thanks. I hadn’t realised that BA had put up the “tax” on club europe redemptions to £50. Sigh.

  • Mikeact says:

    I though it had been £50 since the beginning.
    And another benefit for those gradually falling down the tiers….lounge access.

    • Rob says:

      Wasn’t it £40, then £45, then £50? I think economy was £25, £30, £35?

  • Dalr says:

    I don’t know if the Avios site is less sophisticated, or just if regional flights are excluded, but I can’t get availabilty from Edinburgh to Bologna for example – even though LHR-BLQ and EDI-LHR flights show as available when you do separate seacrhes..
    Any ideas?

  • ECR says:

    It is available on the BA Executive Club website as well. It is showing under offers and news.

  • Dalr says:

    The T&Cs stipulate from LON only so I wonder if the free domestic connection is excluded, which makes it a poor offer for those outside London

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