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News in brief:

2,400 Avios with £60 LEGO spend

Tesco Direct is running a ‘short but sweet’ offer on LEGO.

Until Wednesday night, you will receive 1,000 Clubcard points (worth 2,400 Avios or 2,500 Virgin Flying Club) when you spend £60 on the plastic stuff.

The home page for the deal on Tesco Direct is here.

Special Etihad economy deal to Hong Kong

Etihad is running a special promotional code on Hong Kong flights at the moment.  Using code JUNE30 you can fly from Heathrow to Hong Kong for just £344.  This is exceptional value for such a long trip and is £25 cheaper than the current Cathay Pacific sale prices – albeit that flight is direct and earns Avios.

I’m not sure of the exact travel dates but I was able to find dates in June at this price.

Iberia A330 350

15% off Iberia flights from the UK – today only

Iberia has been running a special discount for its newsletter subscribers this week which I forgot to mention over the weekend.

It is still valid today, however, and you can fly until the end of the year (July and August excluded).

The code ‘INTERNET’ used on iberia.com will get you 15% off economy or business class flights departing from the UK.

It is valid only on Iberia and Air Nostrum.  No stopover are allowed.

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.

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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

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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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Etihad and Etihad Guest, Iberia and Iberia Plus, Tesco Clubcard

Comments (23)

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  • Alanc says:
    17 May17 May 07:27

    Just checked EDI and it’s £337. The cost breakdown show’s the discount as £96.

  • Trickster says:
    17 May17 May 07:30

    Prices for the Lego, however, have increased significantly compared to other retailers. There are reports on HotUKDeals of people having items sat in their baskets waiting for boost to start, increase overnight by £20-30, model depending of course.

  • Tilly71 says:
    17 May17 May 07:58

    Prices increased in a few hours yesterday morning when the offer started by 25%.

    • Sideshow Bob says:
      17 May17 May 08:38

      Yup, every Lego item I looked at was cheaper at either Argos, Amazon or (even) John Lewis. Don’t fall for the boost hype – you are paying for the avios.

      • Sussex Bantam says:
        17 May17 May 09:04

        Actually John Lewis was the cheapest place for all the Lego I bought at Christmas. Tesco prices are now uncompetitive even with the bonus clubcard points.

        • harry says:
          17 May17 May 09:20

          You can try & game it, ie buy what might look expensive items & hang onto your receipt, get the points. If Tesco reduce the prices again in the next 30 days, phone & get them to refund you the difference – they readily do this. If they don’t reduce prices, return your items for a full refund (and sometimes keep the points on top).

          • James67 says:
            17 May17 May 09:39

            For many of the more popular lego sets we would probably end up returning them because if past experience is anything to go by they often go out of stock. Cannot comment this time as I have not looked but last time there was definitely a few deals to be had where MrT was significantly cheaper on some star wars sets than their main competitors. The problem this time around is that the offer coincides with boost, for which it seens prices have been hiked.

  • DS says:
    17 May17 May 09:11

    “It is valid only on Iberia and Air Nostrum. ” on BA flights also, but not only BA flights
    has to be IB segments as well.

  • USATB says:
    17 May17 May 11:36

    Several Lego items are also available at a lower price in my local Tesco Extra – I bought a couple of sets at the weekend examples. £18 down to £10 and £9 down to £4.85 and they were still at the lower prices today.

    Definitely not the best deal via Tesco Direct.

    I sometimes refer to the buy button on this link to do a quick trawl of Lego deals across a few sites, it doesn’t cover Tesco however still useful for Lego fans versus Avios fans. http://brickset.com/buy/vendor-amazon/order-percentdiscount/country-uk

  • CaptAviator says:
    17 May17 May 11:47

    Hi,
    Can anyone advise if the 15% with Iberia can be used on flights to Bangkok? Also if anyone has any advise of cheap oneworld fares to Bangkok in August would appreciate it 🙂

    • Rob says:
      17 May17 May 12:49

      Lots of bargains to BKK. Use ITA Matrix (search for my guide) and look for ex- Europe departure points. Business should be under £1k and Eco a lot less. Cathay has HKG for £369 and you could add an AirAsia leg for peanuts.

      • The_Real_A says:
        17 May17 May 15:34

        BA pricing up for BKK economy around £470 fom LHR (summer/spring) but can bring this down by £100 using part pay with Avios. Avoids any messing with connections each way.

  • TimS says:
    17 May17 May 16:48

    I use this company: http://www.autoaidbreakdown.co.uk/

    Wife & I are both covered on both cars for £42.35 a year in total, including onward travel for up to 6 people & home breakdown cover.

    • Alan says:
      21 May21 May 16:52

      Yep, I found them mentioned on MSE and been happy when I had to make a claim with how it was handled.

  • InsideFlyer Tom says:
    17 May17 May 16:11

    £344 becomes £315! Use promo code JUNE40 (i.e. rather than JUNE30) and you’ll get 40% off. As a result, I found Etihad flights to Hong Kong in June for a quite remarkable £315.

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