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Virgin Flying Club is currently offering double miles (2 miles per £1) when you exchange your foreign currency at Amex Currency Exchange at Heathrow, Edinburgh or Birmingham. You can also get double miles at Gatwick at Moneycorp. You can read full details of the offer here. [...]
I posted two weeks ago about the offer of 1,000 bonus Avios via British Airways Executive Club for buying £300 of currency from American Express Currency Exchange. This is a quick heads up that the same offer has now appeared at avios.com as well. This gives you [...]
Last year I ran a number of posts about American Express Currency Exchange, the new bureau de change partner of British Airways Executive Club. See here, here and here. What we discovered was that Amex Currency Exchange treats pre-ordered foreign currency purchases on an Amex [...]
Some people received this offer by email yesterday. However, it is NOT targetted and is described on the Amex Currency Exchange website, and so must be open to all. It is not a bad deal and certainly worth a look if you need foreign currency. [...]
Well, the results of my experiment are in. This is what turned up on my Membership Rewards statement: 22/10/2012 AMEX TRAVEL MONEY Charge: £166.92 Base points: 166 Bonus points: 0 Total points: 166 And on my Amex card statement it just shows: 22 Oct 2012 [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote this piece on Avios dropping their relationship with Travelex and jumping into a metaphorical bed with American Express Currency Exchange. A reader has been in touch to tell me about his experience with ACE at Heathrow. As I [...]
On 31st August, the very long-term relationship between Travelex and BA / Avios came to an end. This partnership has been going for years, and was deep enough for Travelex to have occasional built-in FX booths inside BA lounges, including Terminal 5 at Heathrow. (Very [...]
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