Get a 500 Avios points sign-up bonus from Iberia Plus

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• Winston says:

  12 Mar12 March 07:14

  Yes I had a surprise 500 point bonus yesterday when I checked my account balance.
  But even more surprising, was a 9000 point transaction in connection with my economist subscription, even though I cancelled this within the 14 day eu cancellation period, seems they gave me the points anyway!

• JK says:

  12 Mar12 March 07:39

  Iberia regularly sends offers from Vinoseleccion where you can earn Avios for buying wine. 2 cases of Marques de Caceres arrived yesterday bringing in 960 Avios. Not a bad way to activate the Iberia account…

  • Pete McAllister says:

    13 Mar13 March 18:00

    Hi JK, that sounds like a good plan – am struggling to register on the vinoselection website though: region and postcode it won’t take, they need to be in Spain I guess? Any tips for UK registration and delivery? Thanks!

• Ralf says:

  12 Mar12 March 07:45

  Do you know if the 500 points will be credited for a Membership rewards transfer?

  • Nate says:

    12 Mar12 March 08:11

    Worked for me

• MIM says:

  12 Mar12 March 09:26

  Just signed up and got the confirmation email mentions ‘500 Avios as a gift’.

  The exact wording is “So that you have Avios from the very first day, we will give you 500 Avios as a gift if you use your card on your next flight or with one of our Partners within 45 days”.

  What’s the cheapest option to secure these?

• Gman says:

  12 Mar12 March 09:27

  500 points if you have a flight or transaction with partners in 45 days. Quote from the welcome e-mail: “500 avios as a gift. So that you have avios from the first day, we will give you 500 avios as a gift if you use your card on your next flight or with one of our partners within 45 days”

  • Rob says:

    12 Mar12 March 09:34

    Thank you!

    In that case, definitely sign up and move 1000 Amex points!

• Graeme says:

  12 Mar12 March 09:35

  Slightly OT but this article is nicely timed for me, so apologies….

  My mum, my partner and her sister recently got 12,500 Avios in their new Iberia accounts through the Economist offer and the bonus above. Since they’re all such nice people, they want to give the Avios to me. From what I understand from other HFP articles, I think I need to open each of them an Avios account, combine the Avios, then put us all together as a household account, then eventually write to Avios to split that account and leave the Avios with me.

  Is that right? Is there a simpler way to get them all in my account? Thanks all!

  • Rob says:

    12 Mar12 March 09:39

    Correct. Assuming you don’t want to open a BA household account, you need to move each persons points to avios.com, form an avios.com household account, wait a couple of months then post back the HHA break-up form indicating that 100 per cent of the Avios should be given to you.

    • Graeme says:

      12 Mar12 March 10:28

      Thanks Raffles. Your University articles work well!

• Lee says:

  12 Mar12 March 09:58

  I tried to register and it wont accept my UK passport number. Anyone else experience this?

  • AndyGWP says:

    12 Mar12 March 13:16

    Is it because you may already be registered?

    My (now) wife currently has a massive 220 points in her account, and I am struggling to change her surname using Iberia Customer Service, so thought this was a good opportunity to bin off the old account and start a new one.

    Is reporting the passport number issue here to (she hasn’t changed her name on her passport yet), so the only thing I can think of for me, is that it’s already got it in the system somewhere.

    • AndyGWP says:

      12 Mar12 March 13:22

      Ah – fixed it… it thinks it’s being clever and has spotted an error in the format of your passport number.

      Enter something like this:
      AB123456C

      It should accept it… you can then go into your account settings when registered, and change it and it will save (though still throws a validation wobbler!)

      • Jason says:

        12 Mar12 March 15:06

        I put a P in front of my pasort number. I think it might be Spanish passports have letters in there numbers.

        • Lee says:

          13 Mar13 March 08:29

          Thanks, will try this and really appreciated!

• Jono says:

  12 Mar12 March 11:09

  HI,

  Don’t have any amex points or hotel points to transfer to Iberia plus?
  Whats the next easier way to “earn” a point quickly? How would I go about buying wine and use my account to credit points?

  Thanks

  • Rob says:

    12 Mar12 March 11:42

    Heathrow Express has an option to credit to IB if you book via heathrowexpress.com/avios

    I trashed a recent email offering wine but someone may still have it.

  • Liz says:

    12 Mar12 March 20:04

    Hi Jono,
    I don’t collect Amex rewards or hotel points either. Go to the email you got from Iberia when you registered – click on “check partners” then go to Purchases – look for Vinoseleccion – click on the promotion/offer at the bottom then click “here” to get the 6 bottles of Marques de Caceres – change to English at the top of the page – 480 points and hopefully the bonus 500 plus free delivery for your first order.

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