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£100 back on £500 BA spend (should include Avios taxes) with 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.

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.

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.

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Comments (133)

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  • Nick says:
    29 Oct29 October 14:16

    Does it work when using your BA Amex card to upgrade an existing flight with cash via BA.com?

  • JAXBA says:
    29 Oct29 October 14:41

    “…transactions made in Great British Pounds (GBP)”

    Do any Britons actually refer to Pounds in this odd way? I’ve only heard it from Americans.

    • the real harry says:
      29 Oct29 October 15:16

      sure, I refer to £ as GBP all the time (not the words, though)

      I think anybody who has had to regularly think about/ discuss different currencies will be familiar with & use the 3 letter abbreviated form for the common currencies

      I’m more likely to be caught out with abbreviated airports 🙂

    • Paul says:
      29 Oct29 October 16:19

      GBP is commonly used but I think it is quite rare to see it referred to as “Great British Pound”. “Pound Sterling” is probably the more common term in this country. “British Pound” is normal too, though probably used more abroad.

    • Rob says:
      29 Oct29 October 16:21

      Fairly common to do this in the finance sector, and also if typing on a non-UK keyboard.

      • Alan says:
        29 Oct29 October 16:54

        Yes, I use TLAs for currencies and airports all the time, plus two-letter ones for airlines.

        Useful to know them anyway, the likes of xe.com and Google use them too when plugging in calculations.

    • Peter K says:
      29 Oct29 October 23:29

      Us non-financial sector Brits usually just call them pounds, or quid (e.g. 5 quid means £5). We will sometimes call them points sterling as has been mentioned, but typically only when context might allow confusion with lbs (pounds of weight).

  • Devin says:
    29 Oct29 October 14:43

    Assuming this has to be in one purchase? (though it doesn’t explicitly say that)

  • Jill says:
    29 Oct29 October 14:43

    Basic question from newbie to BA.
    Dates not yet available for the flights I want for my companion voucher. I have the £100 offer on my card. Can I book flights now using my voucher to get the £100 discount and change the dates as my flights become available? Obviously realise there will be a change fee but will I encounter further problems/cost?
    Thanks in advance for advice.

    • Talay says:
      29 Oct29 October 15:19

      £35 x 2 to change IIRC but if dates not available now it likely means they have gone already and not that they have not been released yet !

      You will realise that points collecting is the easy part and that getting the dates you want is the nigh on impossible part !

      • Jill says:
        29 Oct29 October 18:54

        Thanks for that. Flights I want are only for November 2017 so not out yet.

      • Peter K says:
        29 Oct29 October 23:32

        It depends on where you want to go and when. Some places are awful for availability, others have bucket loads.

  • john says:
    29 Oct29 October 15:37

    Didn’t get it on my ba prem plus or the supp card.

  • Joe says:
    29 Oct29 October 16:47

    Slightly off topic; anyone else had the admiral insurance offer disappear from their amex offers page? I “redeemed to card” last month but its disappeared from my offers page, nowhere to be seen??

  • Sohan says:
    29 Oct29 October 17:28

    Round the world tickets:

    Anyone know if BA or partner do these and whether possible to use Avios to buy/part-buy?

  • Jordan D says:
    29 Oct29 October 18:01

    7 cards between 4 of us, and only has appeared on one (my mother’s – the newest BA Amex in the family). Disappointing.

    • the real harry says:
      29 Oct29 October 19:34

      my wife & I both got it, had a fiddle but can’t see how that other dude swapped it onto other Amex cards

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