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Bits: Avios launches targeted Super Boost promotion, Lloyds brings back refer-a-friend

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News in brief:

Avios launches new targetted Super Boost promotion

avios.com launched a new promotion yesterday to encourage you to increase your Avios collecting this spring.

Super Boost is a targetted offer which has gone to a minority of members.  None of my family have received anything.  If you didn’t get it, there is nothing you can do about it.

You need to opt in by the end of February and then collect a specific number of Avios before the end of April.  Irrespective of when you register, all earning from 1st January counts towards your target.

The bonuses are based on your previous earning activity and vary sharply.  For example, I saw one offering:

1,500 Avios for earning 18,000 points or 3,000 Avios for earning 25,000 points

but another reader got:

200 Avios for earning 400 points or 400 Avios for earning 600 points

Quite a difference.

Avios from all air and non-air partners count towards your target.  There is no leeway on the receipt of Avios, however – they must be in your account by 30th April.  If you have the Lloyds credit card, check what date your points hit to ensure that you don’t spend unnecessarily in the final month.

The easiest way to hit your target is probably from a Tesco Clubcard conversion although the cut-off date for the next voucher run is Thursday 26th January.  This means that you will struggle to do anything quickly to earn additional points this quarter.

Be careful about crediting British Airways flights to avios.com because you not receive any elite status bonus that BAEC would give and your tier points will be lost.

Bonus Avios will be credited to accounts by 31st May.  The full terms and conditions are here.

Lloyds Avios Rewards credit card refer-a-friend bonus is back

I wrote an article yesterday moaning about the loss of the refer-a-friend bonus on the Lloyds Avios Rewards credit card

This definitely seemed to have died. I saw two separate tweets sent by Lloyds to Head for Points readers confirming it.

And then, a few hours after my article appeared, it was relaunched!  You can, yet again, receive 4,500 Avios points when you are referred for the Lloyds Avios Rewards card.

Meanwhile, I have been sent a document showing potential plans for the future of the Lloyds Avios Rewards card.  More on this tomorrow …..


How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (December 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

Get 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

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.

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

Huge 80,000 bonus points and great travel benefits – for a large 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

10,500 points (=10,500 Avios) and NO FX fees Read our full review

Capital on Tap Pro Visa

10,500 points (=10,500 Avios) plus good benefits Read our full review

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.

Comments (196)

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  • Mark says:

    Yes was dropped last week. I was getting an error when trying to transfer and sent them a message, they fixed it, went back in and it had gone!! Lost out on 10k

  • ComeFlyWithMe123 says:

    Pretty happy with my boost

    Collect 4500, receive 1200
    Collect 5500, receive 2400

  • Leo says:

    I got:
    a) Collect 500 get a boost of 50, or
    b) Collect 2000 get a boost of 100.

    I can’t say I see the logic. I can probably resist the temptation of 50 avios to be frank.

  • ana says:

    I have made a transfer from my clubcard account to Avios but nowhere it has asked me for an account number, so I am concerned that something has gone wrong. It is my first time transferring to Avios, I also got the 200 boost for 500 Avios or 400 boost for 2000 Avio

    • Peter K says:

      This is common and often it ends up in a new avois.com account. You then need to contact avois.com to combine it into one account for you. Annoying but it happens. Future transfers go to the correct account.

      • ana says:

        thanks. How long does a transfer take to appear on the account?

        • Lumma says:

          It’s pretty quick. The same happened to me, just used the online chat function on avios.com and they sorted it out within a couple of days

  • danksy says:

    I never got my 1000 bonus for new ways of collecting (neither did any others within my HH account!)

    • Nick says:

      You should have the 1000 Avios bonus by the end of January for collecting with a new partner. That’s what Avios online chat told me.

      • Danksy says:

        thats good, I think I’ve got 10k due (2k from each HHA) will be interesting to see if they post for some of my smaller purchases…

  • Rebecca says:

    I got:
    a) collect 500, receive 200
    b) collect 2000, receive 400

    I’ll probably collect way over 2,000 as I put my daily spending on it. Better than nothing but not so much to shout about!

  • Steve Smith says:

    I concentrate on Choice rewards rather than Avios although I do have both. I await with interest what will happen with Lloyds because if the Amex card is dropped I see little incentive to continue unless they hike up the MasterCard offering in terms of points

  • Cate says:

    Haven’t received anything but partner has – not worth any extra effort IMHO.

    Looking at the email I suppose the ‘balance growing hints and tips’ means we are going to get flooded with marketing.

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