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100 free Heathrow Rewards points (=100 Avios) for downloading their app

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Heathrow Airport has launched its very own Heathrow Airport Guide app aimed at helping you find your way to and around the airport and to maximise your use of its facilities.

It is available for iPhone, Android and Windows smartphones.

This might not sound hugely exciting to experienced travellers.  However, according to an email I received yesterday, I will receive 100 free Heathrow Rewards points if I download the app before 31st July.

Heathrow Rewards

The only condition is that I link my Heathrow Rewards card to the app – which I would need to do anyway so they know where to send the 100 points!

There is no indication that the offer is targetted.  Previous Heathrow Rewards offers which have been emailed to selected members have worked for everyone.

The app also contains all of your Heathrow Rewards data, including your points balance and a list of all recent transactions.

Heathrow Rewards points can be transferred at 1:1 into:

Lufthansa Miles & More

Etihad Guest

Emirates Skywards

Avios / British Airways Executive Club

Virgin Flying Club

…. albeit a minimum transfer of 250 points is needed.  You will earn 1 point for every £1 you spend at Heathrow, including Official Heathrow Parking and Heathrow Express.  Foreign exchange earns 1 point for every £10 swapped.

If you are not already a member, the best deal (I think) is here.  You will earn 2,500 points (=2,500 miles) for signing up and spending £150 in one day before the end of the year.

Comments (33)

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  • Gavin says:

    I presume having the App downloaded already and linked to my Rewards account, as I do, precludes me from the points?

  • Rhys says:

    Hey Rob
    My email mentioned the app was available to download but not that I would get any points for it.
    Do you think points might still be awarded?

  • C Y S Yuen says:

    Very OT but I want to remind people that QR is doing a sale at ARN in business class.

    Book by 31st May.

  • David says:

    Thanks for all your great advice, Raffles!

    I signed up to Heathrow Rewards yesterday following your link to get the 2,500 bonus on at £150 spend, but there’s no reference to this offer in emails or on my account so far. I guess I just wait to spend £150 and then I’ll find out…

    • Rob says:

      There would have been a promo code automatically inserted into the application form. These tend to track OK and if not, as the offer is still running, you won’t have any trouble convincing customer services to give you the points.

  • Waribai says:

    Slightly OT. I’ve had my Regus Gold card for about 3 years now. I used it yesterday for the first time in about a year. Then I cam again today. They let me in but said my card had expired. Looked at my online profile and lo and behold I am now a mere blue member. Anyone had a similar experience? Are my regus days over or can I still flash my gold card?

    • John says:

      Same here. I think their software is carrying out a purge (although they don’t get you free access, the blue cards at least have very distant expiration dates!)

    • Matt says:

      Regus appear to be getting rid of the free Gold memberships that were given out via partner reward schemes in the post-recession years. I had one (through Virgin Atlantic) which expired sometime last year after the Virgin-Regus partnership was dropped.

    • AndyR says:

      Same here. Used the Heathrow T5 a couple of weeks ago with Gold card but just looked and I am now blue. Damn it.

      • Rob says:

        Bit worried for mine now, luckily the staff wave me through at the one I use most. If I have to pay I’m decamping fully to WeWork – free beer and more better looking young people around each day (of both sexes) than you will see in a month of working out of Regus …. 🙂

        That said, HFP is literally ‘the business that Regus built’. I probably did 150 days a year in Regus for the first 3 years of the life of this site, for which I paid a grand total of £0.

        (Not entirely true – at one point you could pay £20 for a standby day office and I used a few of those. Never paid for my Gold though.)

        Been working mainly from home since we moved house last year and I gained an office, except during school holidays ….

  • michael says:

    Hmm, I have just downloaded the app but there is no reference to any extra points and it only shows on my balance the 100 points I got when i joined the programme back in April.

    • Rob says:

      It isn’t instant, they will add them on after 31st July presumably

  • NFH says:

    I have 234 points already, which expire on 13/07/2017. I installed the app and logged in. I want to transfer 250 points to British Airways (which is the minimum transfer amount). It sounds as if the 100 points might not credit until the end of July. Therefore what should I do?

    • NFH says:

      Silly question. I misread the date. There shouldn’t be a problem then.

  • Keri says:

    Hi

    I have been a member of Heathrow Rewards for several years.

    I have downloaded their new Heathrow app – it is assuming that I am a new customer and to join, so it is not asking me for my Heathrow Rewards membership number other than to log in

    Am I doing something wrong ?

    • Rob says:

      Are you sure? I got an opening screen which said log-in or register.

      • Keri says:

        I got that screen – so I logged in – so does that mean that it will register my membership number ?

        • TimS says:

          Should do. After logging in you should see an icon for Heathrow Rewards about 3/4 down the screen (on Android at least). Click on that and you will go to a page that has, amongst other things, your card number & current points total on.

          I assume anyone who logs in to the app (certainly those who log in to the app for the first time) between now & the end of July will get the 100 bonus points.

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