Big 40% bonus lets you buy Avios points via Iberia for as low as 1.0p each

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• Nigel says:

  24 May24 May 18:46

  Just so happens, as for an earlier reader that this is very frustrating timing for me. Have been actively collecting avios using lots of the tricks for about 6 months and yesterday bought 30,000 for a huge £495 (which I felt bad about then given how expensive it was) and booked 2 first class flights to Rio and 2 business class return flights back which is what I’d been working towards booking. So annoying that this offer comes the day after and it would have saved me £140! It’s just over the 24 hours when I read about it as well!

• Steve says:

  25 May25 May 08:35

  If you pay by BA Amex does it get treated as double Avios like flights/holidays?

  • NickS says:

    29 May29 May 11:50

    just purchased the 100,000 avios via IB plus bonus 40,000 and used my Curve Card to pay that bill via BA Amex so should get those avios as well but that opportunity stops on 31st may of course but so does the iberia bonus which ends today so hurry up!

    Also can anyone explain how I go about transferring my IB plus Avios to my BAEC account. Just tried on IB site and it seems to want to charge me and there is a max transfer of 24,000 or am I doing the wrong thing?

    • Rob says:

      29 May29 May 12:19

      You need to use Combine My Avios via BA.com or Iberia.com

• ADS says:

  25 May25 May 14:25

  i was working this out for myself (using an interbank EUR/GBP exchange rate) – so thought i would share – hope the formatting works:

  Avios EUR GBP Pence/Avios
  2800 54.00 40.96 1.46
  5600 91.00 69.03 1.23
  11200 164.00 124.40 1.11
  16800 237.98 180.51 1.07
  21000 293.00 222.25 1.06
  28000 385.00 292.03 1.04
  33600 459.00 348.16 1.04
  49000 665.00 504.42 1.03
  56000 757.00 574.20 1.03
  63000 845.00 640.95 1.02
  70000 935.00 709.22 1.01
  77000 1027.00 779.00 1.01
  84000 1118.00 848.03 1.01
  91000 1209.00 917.06 1.01
  98000 1300.00 986.08 1.01
  105000 1390.00 1054.35 1.00
  112000 1475.99 1119.57 1.00
  119000 1564.00 1186.33 1.00
  126000 1647.00 1249.29 0.99
  133000 1729.01 1311.50 0.99
  140000 1800.00 1365.34 0.98

  I think i might purchase at the 1.04 pence per Avios level.

• Arun says:

  26 May26 May 00:03

  “You must also have earned at least one Avios in the account before you can buy points (one easy option is a small Amex Membership Rewards transfer, or credit a flight, hotel stay or Avis rental).”

  Are you sure about this statement. Everything on the site seems to suggest that you are allowed to buy points and you are allowed to transfer points out if you have been a member for more than 90 days, even if you have 0 balance.

  I want to book a flight tomorrow on BA so I need to buy and then transfer out the Iberia avios!

• Tai says:

  28 May28 May 08:35

  Hi all,

  If person A gifts the maximum Iberia Avios to person B (say 100,000+ 40,000 with the current bonus), can person B still buy 100,000 for himself (+40,000)? I find their T&Cs unclear in this regard.

  I would like to use my wife’s account to gift Avios to myself and then buy Avios for myself so that all Avios are in one account (I don’t’ have a household account for various reasons).
  Thanks in advance.

• Tom says:

  29 May29 May 22:03

  Great deal! Was enough to bump up my Avois to have enough for First return using 2x 241 vouchers to the west coast USA..and in Easter hols too 🙂

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