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New British Airways ‘bonus Avios’ offer – extra points on flights to 21 destinations

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British Airways, in conjunction with American Airlines and Iberia, has launched a new promotion offering bonus Avios points on flights to 21 destinations.

You must register for this promotion.  As it runs until 29th February, I strongly recommend that you register now as you are likely to forget.  The registration link is here.

Here are the destinations offering a bonus:

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North America: Boston, Calgary, Denver, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Philadelphia, Toronto, Vancouver

Africa and Middle East: Abuja, Amman, Bahrain, Beirut, Cape Town, Lagos

Europe and Asia: Baku, Bangkok, Beijing, Chengdu, Singapore

South America and Caribbean: Buenos Aires, Punta Cana

These are the bonuses you will earn:

First: 6,000 Avios return

Club World / Business: 4,000 Avios return

World Traveller Plus: 3,000 Avios return

World Traveller / Economy: 1,500 Avios return

Here is a summary of the rules:

You must book between 2nd November and 13th December – existing bookings do not count

You must fly between 2nd November and 29th February

Flights can be on BA, AA or Iberia as long as they are credited to your BA account

The bonus is only given on return flights

You can earn the bonus a maximum of four times

To be honest, I find this promotion a little half-hearted.  4,000 Avios may persuade someone to move a Club World flight across to oneworld but I would be surprised if First Class passengers are swayed by a 6,000 Avios sweetener.  Similarly, I doubt 1,500 Avios makes much difference either way to a World Traveller passenger.

You shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth, though, so I recommend you click here and scroll down to the registration link just in case you do end up travelling to one of these places.

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

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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.

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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 (33)

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  • Tina silver says:
    4 Nov4 November 06:09

    Registered only to be told not eligible! No further information given as to why not!

  • Paul says:
    4 Nov4 November 07:37

    I agree not a promotion o have any interest in. Waste of time by the marketing department who must be struggling to find anything positive to highlight at BA. As for including Baku in Europe……..BA have a reputation for being economical with the truth but this revision of geographical fact takes them to a whole new level. They must now be defining location ion the basis of whether you’ve hosted the Eurovision Song Contest.

    • Moray says:
      4 Nov4 November 08:36

      Home to next year’s European Grand Prix.

    • Callum says:
      4 Nov4 November 11:03

      Where have they claimed it’s in Europe – I can’t see it anywhere? Regardless, Azerbaijan is in Eurasia. It’s therefore perfectly legitimate to include it in the Europe category. It’s an airline zone map not an atlas…

  • Brian says:
    4 Nov4 November 08:10

    But Raffles has put Baju – maybe that is in Europe.

    • Rob says:
      4 Nov4 November 09:05

      Oh yeah ….

      World Travel Market week. All articles are being written between 11pm and 1am unfortunately …..

  • Ziggy says:
    4 Nov4 November 08:44

    All you have to do is apply a reasonable valuation to the Avios to see just how pathetic these bonuses are – at 0.75p/Avios the bonuses come out to £45/£30/£22.50/£11.25.

    • Sussex Bantam says:
      4 Nov4 November 08:56

      Although if you look it another way…I fly regularly to Boston on CW.

      I earn 16K Avios with my GC. I’ll get a 25% bonus with this promotion. Not earth-shattering – but not nothing either.

    • Mark says:
      4 Nov4 November 15:52

      Depends on how you use them of course. My rule is I never redeem Avios for less than 1p each and never pay more than that.

      It’s not actually that hard to get better value as long as you don’t have millions to redeem. Currently in the Caribbean. True we travelled to Miami on what was probably our last ever Avios upgrade (booked before the devaluation), but we also got about 2p per Avios value on the AA redemption from there, even after accounting for the lost Avios earning opportunity on a cash fare.

      Post devaluation the 1p/Avios value still just about stacks up on a CW 2for1, based on what we would be prepared to pay for ex-London flights.

      Hoping to pick up some cheap CW flights over new year – an extra £40 each worth of Avios on my valuation if that comes to pass would be welcome 🙂

  • Scott says:
    4 Nov4 November 08:54

    If you’re flying to the destinations anyway, then fine, but it’s not going to encourage me to fly somewhere.
    Dates aren’t great for me anyway.

  • Brian says:
    4 Nov4 November 09:09

    OT – but does anybody know a definitive answer regarding the Avios conversion bonus from CC? I’ve just converted £10 as a test and have received 2400. I know that some people have had replies from Tesco saying the bonus points will be added later on, but if that is only done after the bonus period ends, then you’re running the risk of them NOT being added, unless this is guaranteed.

    • CV3V says:
      4 Nov4 November 10:19

      Many moons ago when Tesco used to do the bonus they were added separately. Timescale? It was many weeks, not days. I have converted a bundle of points over and have the base points, one way or another I will get the bonus points even if it means a call to Clubcard to have them added manually, not concerned about this as it’s a well promoted offer (and i have screenshots!).

    • Rob says:
      4 Nov4 November 13:26

      No-one has got a bonus.

      No-one has received the mysterious e-mail.

      AFAIK ….

      • Brian says:
        4 Nov4 November 17:08

        Thanks. So basically if we transfer CC to BAEC, we are relying on Tesco to honour the promotion AFTER it ends. Which is a bit pathetic, really – if the bonus isn’t going to be applied, then I would prefer to transfer to Virgin – the bonus 15% IS being applied there straightaway.

  • Roger says:
    4 Nov4 November 09:38

    What? Do my eyes deceive me? A BA offer to Cape Town at peak travel time??

    Golly gosh. BA redemptions are impossible for our dates so I’m still waiting for the QR 2-4-1. (Is it really coming?)

    I may even try ET’s 787s – long layover in ADD but transit visa, hotel and meals probably included, and it adds a dimension to our holiday.

  • Lady London says:
    4 Nov4 November 10:40

    If you want Capetown Roger you need to check out the current Qatar sale from non-UK starting points. There are some seriously sillily cheap prices there from non-UK. Even for peak period.

    • Roger says:
      4 Nov4 November 11:35

      Yep, I checked various ‘ex-EU’ fares at the QR website. Very often there was no offer in J to CPT, though Y fares were seriously impressive. In my youth, I would have jumped at those. 🙂

      • Roger says:
        4 Nov4 November 11:36

        Just to say, I changed the QR country page each time to change the origin, and clicked on Offers.

        • Brian says:
          4 Nov4 November 12:02

          Maybe just try a dummy booking and see what the price is, rather than expecting to see an offer advertised?

          • Roger says:
            4 Nov4 November 14:54

            Yep, done that, from several starting points. Sure, prices come up, but they’re just not of the same dimension as other offers.

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