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Amex Currency Exchange 1,000 Avios deal now at avios.com too

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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 a potential chance to get 2 x 1,000 Avios bonuses.  It reads to me that you can get one bonus for crediting a transaction to avios.com and another 1,000 Avios for crediting a different transaction to BAEC.

Take a look at my original post  and the 50+ comments if you want to learn more about this offer.

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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (January 2021)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

There are two official British Airways American Express cards:

British Airways American Express card

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BA Premium Plus American Express card BAPP

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You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points, such as:

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The Platinum Card from American Express

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Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

If you have a small business, we especially recommend Capital On Cap’s Visa card which comes with a generous bonus worth 10,500 Avios:

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Comments (19)

  • jp says:
    10 Feb10 February 07:51

    I see they explicitly EXCLUDE sterling tc’s

    “You’ll not collect Avios on the purchase or sale of Sterling Travellers Cheques.”

    and also looks like collection only.

    • Raffles says:
      10 Feb10 February 08:04

      This is also in the T&C’s for the BAEC offer, and is enforced.

      However, if all you are bothered about is getting through the £2,000 of qualifying spend on your new Amex card to trigger the bonus, then £TC’s are the way to go. The fact that you don’t get Avios from Amex Currency Exchange is immaterial.

    • Neil Spellings (@neilspellings) says:
      10 Feb10 February 08:50

      Not sure why you think it’s collection only:

      2. To receive a bonus 1,000 Avios, you must exchange a minimum amount of £300 (GBP) with American Express Currency Exchange (including online at travelmoneynow.com/avios) or Moneycorp in the UK between 28 January 2013 and 31 March 2013. You are not eligible to receive these bonus points if you have already collected Avios with American Express or Moneycorp between 1 September 2012 and 27 January 2013.

  • DV says:
    10 Feb10 February 08:56

    I’m not sure you can earn the bonus a second time. See the terms and conditions:

    All you have to do is enter your Avios membership number when you order your currency between 28 January 2013 and 31 March 2013 and we’ll automatically enter you into the prize draws and add 1,000 Avios if you exchange over £300 in one transaction and have not ordered currency with American Express between 1 September 2012 and 27 January 2013.

  • DV says:
    10 Feb10 February 08:59

    …which conflict with the terms and conditions here:

    2. To receive a bonus 1,000 Avios, you must exchange a minimum amount of £300 (GBP) with American Express Currency Exchange (including online at travelmoneynow.com/avios) or Moneycorp in the UK between 28 January 2013 and 31 March 2013. You are not eligible to receive these bonus points if you have already collected Avios with American Express or Moneycorp between 1 September 2012 and 27 January 2013.

    • Alan says:
      10 Feb10 February 09:06

      But if you collect the Avios using your Avios.com membership number then they’ll have no way of linking that to Avios collected using your BAEC number. You can then just move the Avios across from Avios.com to BAEC.

      • DV says:
        10 Feb10 February 11:20

        It would be best to use a different card to purchase the currency with. Amex cards earn MRs or Avios on the currency purchase, so if you have already used a Platinum Amex, you should switch to BA Amex, for example.

      • Raffles says:
        10 Feb10 February 13:25

        Exactly my thinking. They are, technically, meant to take your passport data for money laundering but I doubt they use that for the purposes of checking whether you qualify.

  • jp says:
    10 Feb10 February 19:04

    The rate looks a bit off, not sure if this is such a great deal, checking delivery options, on 600Euros (to take it reasonably over the £500 mark for free delivery)

    via this link you pay: £527.33 with a rate of 1.1378

    checking via MSE,the normal rate for ACE delvery is 1.164 thus costing you only £520.51

    i accpet that the bonus avios make it slightly better depending on how much you are exchanging.

    • jp says:
      10 Feb10 February 19:05

      should clarify, i don;t mean your link raffles, just the difference between the “avios link” and the normal ACE rates.

  • Neilypokie says:
    11 Feb11 February 19:11

    Hope you guys are patient, I’m a bit of an avois noob 🙁

    I’ve just signed up for Amex platinum – if I were to order £1k of US$ and £1k of EUR€, I think this will qualify me for:
    2000 conditional spend, and thus 52k MR points
    1000 bonus avois through Amex promotion
    2000 avios (1 per £ of spend)
    No cash advance or other fees (not sure about this one..)

    Thanks

    • Raffles says:
      11 Feb11 February 19:33

      All correct, except that Amex is likely to throw a bit of a wobbly if your first two transactions are for currency. You are also likely to breach the daily cash limit on your card, which annoyingly Amex doesn’t tell you!

      I would limit an initial purchase to £300 of each – in separate transactions, ordered on separate days, albeit you can collect them on the same day. You can try a higher number if you want although you might get knocked back.

      In theory, if you order £300 against your BAEC account and £300 against your avois.com account, you may get the 1,000 Avios bonus twice. The rules are not clear.

      Definitely no cash advance fees unless Amex suddenly change their policy.

  • tom says:
    13 Feb13 February 00:59

    Not the best rates

    GBP to USD middle rate yesterday was 1-1.58 on amex official currency website exchange was 1-1.54 (not to bad ..) and same amex currency website via the BA or AVIOS link was 1-1.525 ! That’s 1% more exchange rate then going threw AMEX directly!

  • Jason Thorpe says:
    17 Feb17 February 17:38

    Just tried ordering with my BA Amex and transaction didn’t go through because cash withdrawal isn’t activated it says. So perhaps it now counts as withdrawal, not spend?

    • Raffles says:
      17 Feb17 February 23:02

      I ordered £509 worth last Wed, collected on Friday, on a BA Amex. Hasn’t gone through yet but shows as Pending with no fee attached.

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