Avis, the exclusive British Airways car rental partner, has made a permanent increase to the number of Avios points that you can earn from each rental.
Previously, the earnings rate was 3 Avios per £1 spent with a minimum of 500 Avios.
The minimum earnings rate has now increased to 700 Avios as long as you rent for three days or more.
And a special offer ….
To launch this new rate, Avis is offering 700 bonus Avios until the end of June. You need to reserve and pick up the car by this date, and book a Group C or higher car for 3 or more days.
You would therefore be guaranteed at least 1,400 Avios from your rental.
It is worth remembering that Avis offers some additional deals for British Airways Executive Club members who book via www.avisba.com:
Free additional driver on every rental – this can be a big saving for a couple or family
BA Gold members can pick up cars immediately outside Terminal 5 arrivals
Avis is the only rental company with cars inside the main Terminal 5 car park – no shuttle bus needed
In terms of Avios there are also special deals:
500 bonus Avios on your next rental and a free upgrade on your 2nd-next rental when you sign up for Avis Preferred (free)
750 bonus Avios when you make four bookings in a calendar year
250 bonus Avios when you pay for your Avis rental with a British Airways American Express card
Details of all of these deals can be found at avisba.com or ba.com’s car rental page.
Avis is not necessarily the answer …..
It is true that Avis is the only car hire company to partner with British Airways Executive Club.
Iberia Plus, on the other hand, has done deals with pretty much everyone. As this full-length post on earning Avios from car rentals shows, Iberia Plus partners with Europcar, Enterprise, Hertz, Sixt and Avis.
Avis earns 300 Avios per day outside Spain. Europcar, Enterprise and Hertz offer 300+ Avios per day based on car size. Standard rates with Sixt are 150-400 Avios per day with a maximum of four days.
Details of all of the Iberia Plus car rental deals can be found on the Iberia website here.
(Want to earn more Avios? Click here to see our latest articles on earning and spending your points and click here to see our list of current Avios promotions.)
About Head for Points
When did it become impossible to move Iberia Plus Avios back to either BAEC or Avios.com?
It didn’t but the system is buggy. You may need to try different versions of Combine My Avios on BA and Iberia.
Your IB account also needs to be active, ie have earned in the last year.
duh…..figured it out..
You cannot move Iberia to BA if the BA account is a household account.
Iberia Plus does not offer the transfer to avios option….as it is, as Raffles says, “buggy”
Soloution is to use Avios.com and select Iberia plus which pulls them through rather than a push transaction from Iberiaplus.
Avios = Nothing every easy!
Hey Rob, can you point to a link mentioning the 700 bonus Avios? Only seeing the stated 700 on 3+ days booking but nothing about the additional 700 (to make 1,400). Thanks!