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If you have a stack of Heathrow Rewards points sitting around, this is the opportunity you have been waiting for to unload them.

(Heathrow Rewards is the loyalty scheme covering the shops, restaurants, money exchange and parking facilities at Heathrow Airport.  You earn 1 point for every £1 you spend, or 2 points per £1 once you’ve spent over £500 in a year and been upgraded to the premium tier.  Points can be redeemed for Heathrow shopping vouchers, parking vouchers or miles with a variety of airlines including British Airways, Miles & More, Emirates, Etihad and Virgin.)

Heathrow Rewards

Starting today, and running until next Monday 29th May, you will receive a 100% bonus when you transfer your Heathrow Rewards points into Heathrow shopping vouchers.

Every 250 points you transfer will get you a £5 Heathrow voucher.  This can be spent on virtually anything in the airport, except foreign currency.

This is a very strong deal.  It makes little sense to redeem your points for airline miles at 1 mile per point when you could get 2p of shopping vouchers instead.

Heathrow Rewards has been running a series of 100% bonuses on transfers of points into airline miles.  These may or may not come back in the future.  However, even if you hold off in the anticipation of a 100% bonus at some point, you would still be ‘paying’ 1p per mile compared to cashing in now – and that assumes that airline transfer bonuses will come back.

If you’ve got a stash of Heathrow Rewards points, and as long as you are passing through Heathrow on a regular basis, you should have a serious think about redeeming this week.

The offer will be live at some point during today.  If it isn’t showing when you log in, I recommend waiting for a couple of hours and trying again.

Comments (84)

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  • Morgan says:

    Thank you for this story, plus the prior alert (in 2016) to the Emirates/HR promotion. It has meant my parents have just been able to cash out about £800 of points and will allow them to refresh their old iPads! I’ve been able to cash out £145 of residual points (sadly spent £300 of vouchers last November).

    Overall win for my family and appreciate the heads up to this offer!

  • samson10 says:

    I’m flying on Friday eve. If I spend £150 (with the 3000 points offer), are the points likely to post in time in order to benefit from the double up promotion?

    Also, does anyone know if this all works with the Heathrow Boutique? (presumably it does as you just reserve online and the actual payment takes palace at Heathrow)

    • Rob says:

      In World Duty Free it should post the same night. Some other shops take 2-3 days. Odds are that you’d be OK but no certainty …

  • BAGoldFlyer says:

    If I use vouchers to part-pay for a purchase, does the purchase still earn HR points? I’m thinking of buying a new laptop from Dixons, and this could work nicely if it can be combined with one of the regular bonus points for technology purchases…

    • Amit says:

      Can my friend use my voucher on my behalf?

      • Rob says:

        Yes, not a problem.

        • lgflyer says:

          I once had a problem with this at WorldDutyFree T3, they refused to accept the vouchers which were on a friend’s name. Ended up using them at M&S T3 arrivals without issue.

    • Rob says:

      Put it this way …. if you use a ‘£5 off a £75 spend’ World Duty Free voucher, you get points on the full £75. I get a feeling that you probably would, although I’m not sure I would take the risk if I knew there was a fat bonus at risk.

  • Phil says:

    O/T

    I’m booked in WT+ (J) for EDI-LHR-KUL. I’d hoped to have the option to upgrade from WT+ to CW on the LHR-KUL leg since we are already CE from EDI to LHR. It says that there’s no availability. The flight is in 4 weeks or so. Is it possible that something might become available closer to departure or is that it?

    Thanks!

  • SteveQB says:

    Thanks for this notification Rob. I had 26k EK miles expiring at the end of this week, and now have £160 worth of vouchers on their way!

  • Guy G says:

    Sorry for the OT.

    Would anyone happen to know the difference on how to get the “points saver reward rate” vs the normal rate with Marriot?

    • Rob says:

      Points Savers are a very limited range of hotels which Marriott offers at reduced points prices. There are so few of them that I tend to ignore them.

  • Bob says:

    Is there anything else that can be converted to HR points other than EK miles?

    • Rob says:

      Amex points (via Emirates) or Lufthansa miles – but the latter may be excluded.

  • Stephen C says:

    Connecting through today having transferred 96k Skywards miles back in December (then flew Qantas on Emirates metal to retain BA Gold). Not sure I can change terminals, print 192 £5 vouchers in the lounge, spend them, get something to eat and get on my flight to Belfast in two hours, but I’m willing to give it a try!

    • Stephen C says:

      Duh, just realised they arrive in the post. Guess I need to book another flight to Heathrow soon

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