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Earn bonus Avios or Virgin Atlantic miles with new Tesco Clubcard offers

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Tesco Direct has released a number of new Clubcard offers in recent days.  None of these are outstandingly generous (ie make it worthwhile to buy a product you don’t need purely for the points) but some are good value.

Apologies for the lack of detailed analysis into resale potential etc but I am still officially on holiday!

1,000 bonus points – buy any Nintendo console (ENDS TODAY)

25 – 500 bonus points – buy selected home office equipment items, the best deal is 500 points on a £20 laminator! (ends 11th November)

200 bonus points – pre-order Little Mix (Get Weird) for £10 (ends 5th November)

150 bonus points – pre-order Now That’s What I Call Music 92 for £13 (ends 19th November)

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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (July 2025)

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

Get 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 Card

30,000 Avios and the famous annual Companion Voucher voucher Read our full review

British Airways American Express Credit Card

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 Credit Card

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

50,000 bonus points and great travel benefits – for a large fee Read our full review

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital on Tap for limited companies. You earn points worth 0.8 Avios per £1 on the FREE standard card and 1 Avios per £1 on the Pro card. Capital on Tap cards also have no FX fees.

Capital on Tap Visa

NO annual fee, NO FX fees and points worth 0.8 Avios per £1 Read our full review

Capital on Tap Pro Visa

10,500 points (=10,500 Avios) plus good benefits Read our full review

There is also a British Airways American Express card for small businesses:

British Airways American Express Accelerating Business Card

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.

The American Express Business Platinum Card

50,000 points when you sign-up and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

The American Express Business Gold Card

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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British Airways and Avios, Tesco Clubcard, Virgin Atlantic and Flying Club

Comments (24)

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  • Mikeact says:
    25 Oct25 October 08:27

    The good old days seem to be rapidly disappearing.

    • Rob says:
      25 Oct25 October 09:49

      People have been saying that for the 10 years I have been playing this game …. it is never true! One door opens, another closes.

      For example …. when I started HFP three years ago you couldn’t redeem on airberlin (and so avoid taxes) or Qatar (and get one of the worlds finest in-flight products with excellent availability). Now you can. It is only recently that you have been able to aggressively churn Amex sign-up bonuses. It is easy to forget that the 241 voucher on the BA Amex didn’t exist before 2002, when Amex took over the card contract.

      Similarly, you’ve never been able to buy flights in business as cheaply as we’ve seen over the last year or so. I remember paying £1700 ex-Budapest about 7 years (on BA) to fly to Tokyo and thinking it was an astonishing bargain. Now you can pick up such a trip on Qatar ex-Europe in a sale of £800. The idea of BA selling Club Europe for £150 return would have been unthinkable inyears gone by.

      • Brian says:
        25 Oct25 October 09:56

        Indeed – it seems that points-earning options are going, but cheaper flights are becoming increasingly common. The latter more than makes up for the former, I guess, as long as one has the requisite flexibility.

      • James says:
        25 Oct25 October 13:30

        Speaking of which, skyteam are offering £959 business class from Norway to San Francisco. Usual dates apply. Wondering if one world will match!?

      • oyster says:
        25 Oct25 October 14:13

        Very true.
        Of course it was nice to pop to LGW each weekend armed with bundles of cash to buy £stg TCs from Travelex and earn BA Miles for next to free. Or earn stacks of Clubcard points whilst eating cheap sliced beef for a year.

        But this year I got 150,000 Avios just from Amex plat churn alone. With manufactured spend the miles were virtually free.

      • mike says:
        25 Oct25 October 19:25

        “officially on holiday!” and still working hard – Raffles for London Prime Minister !

        Seriously thanks for all your hard work – oh I found your twitter feed by accident when googling head for points to look up the website address as i was using a work PC – most amused with your photographs. Oh and yes I know realized I googled-ed “Head For Points” to find the website address only for the answer to come back “headforpoints” – my excuse it had been a hard day. but I wanted to show some guys at work the site so they could sign up for the daily updates.

    • harry says:
      25 Oct25 October 17:11

      My Morrisons petrol deal has also contributed about 10,000 Avios and £500 of free petrol.

      • wetboy1uk says:
        25 Oct25 October 17:59

        How did you manage to get so many through Tesco given that their option for earning additional points are limited at present.

      • harry says:
        25 Oct25 October 21:36

        And roll on Madonna, lol. Next Q.

        Cheers m’dears, ‘Touty’.

        • Spotted Dick says:
          26 Oct26 October 07:42

          Selling Lego purchased from Tesco on eBay, why the need for clues I don’t know??

          • wetboy1uk says:
            26 Oct26 October 09:59

            Thanks Spotted dick. It seems some individuals own greed prevents them from helping others. Had it not been for some peoples own greed when it comes to Tesco i feel there would still be a lot more generous offers out there!

    • harry says:
      25 Oct25 October 21:18

      This Q we had 20K on Gold plus another 30K on spend (mostly 2x on BMI) which would reduce the cost to 0.417p/ Avios or thereabouts.

  • Swibbz says:
    25 Oct25 October 10:27

    Raffles – do you have any method of easily finding ALL of the ‘collect extra clubcard points’ offers for tesco? Tesco doesn’t always list all of them on their “offers” page (e.g. the home office equipment you list above).

    • Swibbz says:
      25 Oct25 October 17:26

      Yes unfortunately that site only generally shows tesco brand offers. It excludes things like the nintendo console deal. Ah well, there probably isn’t a perfect source.

  • MoNkEyMaN says:
    25 Oct25 October 10:40

    Great timing, I need a laminator in my life.

  • Saif says:
    25 Oct25 October 11:40

    Sightly OT but does anyone know if and when the next Tesco to Virgin transfer bonus might be? I’ve got a load I need to transfer but there could be a bonus just around the corner.

    Thanks

    • Mike says:
      25 Oct25 October 12:07

      It has been quite a while since the last one…
      Unless you need the miles in the immediate future, hold on to the vouchers until they’re about to expire.

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