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Get £100 back on £500 BA flight 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.

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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.

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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2025)

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

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There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

30,000 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.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on the ‘free for a year’ American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card is increased from 20,000 Membership Rewards points to 30,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (30,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on American Express Platinum is increased from 50,000 Membership Rewards points to a huge 80,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (80,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 30,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

80,000 bonus points and great travel benefits – for a large 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, and the standard card is FREE. Capital on Tap cards also have no FX fees.

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There is also a British Airways American Express card for small businesses:

British Airways American Express Accelerating Business

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

50,000 points when you sign-up 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 (132)

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  • Mick says:
    29 Oct29 October 18:48

    Would purchasing Avios points on the BA Exec Club website trigger this cash back ?

    • the real harry says:
      29 Oct29 October 19:32

      I like the cut of your jib, young feller-me-lad 🙂

      Probably not – but give it a go & if it works you’ll be a hero

    • Genghis says:
      29 Oct29 October 19:43

      Even a 20% discount wouldn’t make me a buyer at their ridiculous prices

  • Sam says:
    29 Oct29 October 19:00

    Wanting to book using companion voucher but returning from different airport so have to book on phone. Is this only for spend on the website? Ta

    • Genghis says:
      29 Oct29 October 19:49

      My most recent 241 open jaw booked on phone came through on credit card as BRITISH AIRWAYS MOTO ( STANSTED. So not sure

  • Craig M says:
    29 Oct29 October 20:12

    I went into my Premium BA Amex card and saved the offer today. Spent over £500 last week on BA.com for a BA holiday from the UK using my card. So it looks like as I have spent over £500 between the offer date starting and the offer date ending, I will get the £100 back. Thanks!

    • the real harry says:
      29 Oct29 October 20:30

      did you get the success email?

      • Alan says:
        29 Oct29 October 20:38

        If activated after the spend I think you’d almost certainly have to plead your case with Amex CS…

        • Craig M says:
          29 Oct29 October 20:57

          Should be fine: Only one £100 statement credit per UK British Airways American Express Card for the first 20,000 Cardmembers to save this offer. Offer only available where the Eligible Participant spends an accumulative total of £500 or more at BA.com or via the BA mobile app between 00:01 BST on 10 October 2016 and 23:59 GMT on 24 November 2016 (the ‘Promotional Period’) with the UK British Airways American Express Card to which the offer is saved and on transactions made in Great British Pounds (GBP).

          • Alan says:
            29 Oct29 October 22:07

            I still can’t see it posting automatically if you haven’t activated it and would imagine you’d need to speak to Amex.

          • Craig M says:
            29 Oct29 October 22:21

            Will do. Thanks

          • the real harry says:
            30 Oct30 October 18:55

            we’re trying to help you here

            you won’t get it unless you ask Amex to allow it, retrospectively 🙂

            even then, you probably won’t get it

  • Sam says:
    29 Oct29 October 20:58

    Hi when booking on the phone with BA, do you think it is possible to pay using two different cards when booking 241 voucher flights? E.g. two chunks of £500?

    I was thinking not but thought it worth an ask? Thanks

    • Alan says:
      29 Oct29 October 22:08

      Travel agents can handle multiple payment cards for one PNR so BA should be able to, of course it might be a case of YMMV when it comes to an individual agent.

  • mr alexandre le blanc says:
    29 Oct29 October 23:01

    Just called amex .they called ba who told them that the 2000 limit had already been reached

    • Natalia S says:
      30 Oct30 October 12:37

      I asked Amex nicely if I can get it (by secure message), and they enrolled me today. The offer started showing in My Offers.

  • andrew young says:
    29 Oct29 October 23:08

    Chance would be a fine thing to be able to use a 241 voucher.
    I have tried for the past year to use mine. Runs out the beginning of December.
    6 flights a day to JFK plus the AA ones and haven’t been able for the past year to find availability in J or F.
    I have nearly half a million Adios and am now just using them for hotels.
    Will start collecting AAdvantage miles because you can find availability on almost every flight.

  • Nate says:
    30 Oct30 October 07:40

    Hi guys,

    Made a booking on BA.com using BA card for family holiday earlier this week and spent approx £7k. Decided to pay all off as trying to trigger spend for 2-4-1 voucher on my card.

    The following day I received BA holiday offer on both my Amex and wife’s supplementary and saved offer. Will call AMEX today but do you think they will apply credit retrospectively? Wish I had now only made part payment but hindsight eh

    • Rob says:
      30 Oct30 October 09:00

      Doesn’t hurt to ask, as BA is funding this Amex may not care.

    • Yuff says:
      30 Oct30 October 14:40

      According to the people I spoke to yesterday it was targeted, however they did offer to send me another offer that was targeted for extra Avios for spending over 5k, again targeted, but I declined as I wasn’t spending that much on the flights…..worth asking.

    • Craig M says:
      30 Oct30 October 18:15

      Hi Nate, how did you get on? Similar to yourself, I booked my holiday last week too and then saved this offer two days after booking and paying on my BA amex.

      I still haven’t called up. Will they honour it? I hope they will. According to the T&Cs we should be fine.

      • Nate says:
        31 Oct31 October 02:22

        Hi Craig,

        Unfortunately no luck. They advised they were not allowed to add credit retrospectively. I will ask my wife to try once tomorrow but don’t think they will budge.

  • Amit says:
    30 Oct30 October 15:34

    Same here, sent a secure message and they kindly added the offer for me. Did the same previously for the trailfinders offer on my gold card which was initially declined but they then changed their mind!

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