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Get £100 back on £500 BA spend (should include Avios taxes) with a new Amex offer

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For the first time I can remember, British Airways has launched a cashback deal with American Express.  It is surprisingly generous and set at just the right level for anyone planning a Club World redemption booking.

Some – but not all, I don’t have it – British Airways American Express cardholders have the following offer showing on their online statements:

Spend £500 or more, get £100 back 

Save to Card to get a £100 statement credit when you spend £500+ at ba.com by 24/11/16.  UK departure flights only. Valid once per Card for the first 20,000 UK Cardmembers to save. Terms and restrictions apply.

BA Premium Plus American Express card BAPP

Here is the small print:

OFFER TERMS

Only one £100 statement credit per UK Card for the first 20,000 Cardmembers to save.

UK departure flights only. Travel insurance purchases are excluded. 

Offer only available when you spend £500 or more at ba.com by 24th November 2016 with the British Airways American Express® Card to which the offer is saved and on transactions made in Great British Pounds (GBP). 

The offer does not apply to spend on other Cards you might hold and on transactions made via payment wallets or payment aggregators including, but not limited to, PayPal.

An awarded credit can be reversed if qualifying transactions are refunded or cancelled. 

Credit should appear on your billing statement within five days from qualifying spend but may take up to 90 days from 24th November 2016. 

ANY spending on ba.com which shows as British Airways on your Amex statement and which is denominated in £ should trigger the bonus.

This means, importantly, that the taxes on an Avios redemption booking will do it.

£500, by coincidence, is pretty much what you will pay in taxes and charges for a Club World redemption seat.  If you have this offer on your British Airways American Express card, you can look at it as a 20% discount on the additional charges!

You MUST save this offer to your card – it is not automatic cashback.  I think that Amex will hit the cap of 20,000 registrations for this deal so I strongly recommend going over to americanexpress.co.uk and – assuming you are targetted – saving it to your personal offers list ASAP.


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.

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

Huge 30,000 points bonus until 12th May 2024 Read our full review

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.

Comments (133)

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  • David M says:

    This offer does not show on my card, however was on the phone to Amex CS about a problem with a London Restaurant Festival credit. The advisor told me that the offer is automatically applied to all the BA Amex cards and he can see it sat there on their system…

    I read back the terms and conditions and that I could not save it to card as I could not see it. He assured me there was no problem and I would get the credit back if I spent 500….

    Not sure if this will be the case, but at least I have a recorded call with his assurance to back me up.. Let’s see what happens…!

    • Yuff says:

      Just spoke to BA and was told the offer reached its 20k cap a few days ago, which isn’t very consistent with the posts on here today?

      • Rob says:

        This offer has very little to do with BA in terms of planning and I can’t believe the BA call centre would know the first thing about it. It is Amex who controls registration numbers and pays the bonuses.

        • Yuff says:

          Sorry, meant Amex not BA, just got back from Dubai and not thinking straight 😉
          Some readers might think I wasn’t thinking straight going to Dubai in the first place 🙂

  • Joan says:

    Oh poo- I am just about to book a Companion voucher redemption – and I don’t have the Amex offer

  • Richard Thomas says:

    OT – wonder if Amex will ever do the points bonus transfer to BA again? It’s been over 2 years since the last one, I have a pile of Amex points just sitting there waiting…

  • Judge says:

    How do you register your supplementary cards online? I’ve never worked it out so have only ever managed to look for deals under the main cardholder.

  • James67 says:

    Amex offers have been very frustrating for me this year, I think I have redeemed less than five. I got this BA one but all my flights for 2017 are already booked. Timing of trailfinders was perfect but I never got it. Never ever get Selfridges which I could use, got easyjet which I never use. The list goes on…

  • melonfarmer says:

    Thanks Rob. Bagged it just now so they haven’t hit their quota yet.

  • Matthew says:

    When I did an Avios redemption using the Lloyds voucher in January it slowed on my CC statement as Avios Group. If I did the same again would this really count as a BA transaction? Thanks.

  • Kathy H says:

    Not offered on our Amex 🙁

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