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Activate your Iberia Plus account with 15 Avios via Facebook

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If you collect Avios, you should have an Iberia Plus account. This is because, should you ever choose to redeem your Avios points for a long-haul flight on Iberia, you will pay substantially lower taxes by booking via the Iberia website rather than the BA site.

This article shows how much cheaper taxes can be when booking via Iberia Plus.

You can move Avios to or from BA, Iberia and avios.com for free, instantly, using ‘Combine My Avios’. However, there are two hurdles you need to jump over before you can move Avios into Iberia Plus:

Your Iberia Plus account must be 90 days old, and

You must have ‘earned’ 1 Avios in Iberia Plus

The second point can be a bit messy, requiring you to credit a oneworld flight or a hotel stay to Iberia, to transfer some American Express Membership Rewards points over or to buy some over-priced Iberia miles.

There is now an easier way.

Iberia has launched a promotion offering 15,000 bonus Avios if you collect miles from 10 of their partners. Now, frankly, this is not going to be possible if you don’t live in Spain. You might manage 3 or 4 via hotel stays or car rentals, but the bonus is pathetically small (150 Avios for 4 partners) and you really need to hit 10 to get anything worthwhile.

However … posting this promotion on your Facebook page earns you 15 Avios.

Here is the webpage for this promotion. It is in Spanish, so using Google Chrome is an idea if you have it, as it will translate it automatically.

Click of the ’15 Avios’ bit in the bottom right and let it install the Facebook app. (You can delete the post from your wall immediately afterwards.) When it takes you back to the promotion home page, there will be a box where you need to input your Iberia Plus number to get your 15 Avios.

You can actually repeat this once a day to get 15 additional Avios but for me it is too much of an effort! It is well worth doing this once, though. Even if you don’t plan to book an Iberia flight now, you never know when you might want to do it, and having an ‘activated’ Iberia Plus account would be required.

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2024)

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

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

Barclaycard Avios Plus card

Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard

Get 25,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £10,000 Read our full review

Barclaycard Avios card

Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

5,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £20,000 Read our full review

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending £15,000 Read our full review

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital on Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 12th May 2024, the Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa card is offering a bonus of 30,000 points, convertible into 30,000 Avios. You must have a Limited Company to apply. Click here to learn more and click here to apply.

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

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You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus.

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year Read our full review

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

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Comments (31)

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  • thesaver79 says:
    11 Jun11 June 09:12

    I can’t see to see any field where I can insert my Iberia Plus number when I am taken back to the page. I just appear as recognised through Facebook, as it shows my name! Maybe it associated automatically my Facebook profile to my Iberia Plus account?

    • Ed E says:
      11 Jun11 June 09:25

      OK, have just done this (as a distraction rather than a real earner).

      Once you have been recognised through Facebook, back on the big browser window you will have a man with your FB profile on it, you then click on the man next to it as you are “Throwing Down The Gauntlet” to your friend(s) for them to collect Avios this way too. Once you have clicked on the second man, you can select one of your FB friends and this posts to THEIR wall, not on your wall.
      I would only do this to one friend who is sympathetic to your Avios habit.

      You can then go onto THEIR wall and delete it, ready to do it all again tomorrow!

      As Raffles says, a fair bit of work for 15 Avios!

      • BigTex says:
        11 Jun11 June 12:56

        Thanks — excellent description and was able to snag 15 points.

  • MichaelP says:
    11 Jun11 June 09:43

    Done. Now cant see how I delete it off the left bar of my Facebook.. Is under the “More” section and called “Tira el guante de Iberia Plus”

  • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:
    11 Jun11 June 10:33

    Tried this yesterday – you have to post it onto a friend’s wall and they will get a message in Spanish that links to a page that doesn’t work on mobile.

    • Mark says:
      11 Jun11 June 21:27

      You can get it to work on a mobile browser by selecting the ‘Request desktop site’ option, or at least you can with Chrome on Android.

      Incredibly fiddly though….

      You can always leave it on a friend’s wall to test their grasp of Spanish… 🙂

  • FromTheRail says:
    11 Jun11 June 10:55

    I didn’t send it to any friends and it seemed to pick some random person, so it saved my friends getting annoyed with my avios habit 🙂

  • signol says:
    11 Jun11 June 11:46

    Does anyone know how long an account stays active after this?

    • Rob says:
      11 Jun11 June 12:13

      12 months

      • Roger says:
        13 Jun13 June 10:32

        This is worrying. I had assumed 3 years.

        I have about 6,000 Avios in my IB+ account and need to retroclaim some 4-5,000 car hire Avios.

        Sounds like I should transfer these a.s.a.p.!

        • Rob says:
          13 Jun13 June 10:51

          They don’t expire for 3 years (I think).

          But you need activity every 12 months to keep your account ‘active’ and thus let you transfer Avios.

          • Roger says:
            13 Jun13 June 10:56

            Thanks. That sounds better, though crediting again within 12 months will require a bit of discipline!

  • Jason says:
    11 Jun11 June 12:15

    Raffeles, can you move avios around even if they are in a household account?

  • Bits ‘n Pieces for June 11, 2013 - View from the Wing says:
    11 Jun11 June 12:22

    […] There remain times when the Iberia Avios program is better — such as redeeming for Iberia flights (no fuel surcharges). To move British Airways Avios to Iberia’s program your Iberia account needs to be open for 90 days and must have earned at least a mile. Fortunately you can earn 15 points via Facebook. […]

  • Steve @ Canadian Travel Hacking says:
    11 Jun11 June 18:28

    Thanks for this tip – I am looking to use my Avios the next few months. How long does it take to transfer Avios to Iberia?

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