News in brief:
Heathrow Rewards launches new Virgin Flying Club offer
Heathrow Rewards is launching a promotion for Virgin Flying Club members today – but it isn’t bonus miles.
Anyone who transfers their Heathrow Rewards points to Virgin Atlantic – at the standard 1:1 rate, in chunks of 250 – will be entered into a competition.
The prizes are:
First prize – 20,000 Virgin Flying Club miles
Second prize – 10,000 Virgin Flying Club miles
Third prize – 5 people will win 5,000 Virgin Flying Club miles
Anyone who makes a transfer to Virgin during September will be entered. You will only be entered once, irrespective of the number or size of transfers you make.
If Virgin Flying Club miles don’t appeal, remember that the 50% conversion bonus on Heathrow Rewards transfers to Avios is still running until 30th September.
New BA Amex spend bonus
Some British Airways American Express cardholders will be contacted today about a new spending promotion.
Eligible British Airways American Express cardholders will be offered 2,500 bonus Avios for spending £5,000 between 1st September and 30th November
Eligible British Airways American Express Premium Plus cardholders will be offered 5,000 bonus Avios for spending £10,000 between 1st September and 30th November
Whilst these offers are worth having if you are targetted, you should think carefully before pursuing them.
If you have already hit your spending target for the year to trigger your 2-4-1 voucher, it might be better to get a new card and hit a new spend target:
American Express Preferred Rewards Gold charge card (£2,000 spend required to trigger 20,000 bonus Amex points, worth 20,000 Avios) or
Starwood Preferred Guest American Express credit card (£1,000 spend required to trigger 10,000 bonus SPG points, worth 10,000 Avios) Representative APR 36.2% variable including £75 fee based on a notional £1200 credit limit or
Lloyds Avios Rewards credit card (you receive a BA Avios upgrade voucher for spending £7,000) Representative APR 23.7% variable including £24 fee based on a notional £1200 credit limit or
IHG Rewards Club Premium MasterCard (20,000 IHG points for signing up and a free night voucher – potentially worth £250 at a top hotel – for spending £10,000) Representative APR 41.5% variable including £99 fee based on a notional £1200 credit limit
Any of these would be more valuable than putting an extra £5,000 – £10,000 through your BA Amex.
6,000 Avios or 6,250 Virgin miles with Building & Contents Insurance
Tesco Bank is currently offering 2,500 bonus Clubcard points (converts into 6,000 Avios or 6,250 Virgin Flying Club miles) when you take out its Building & Contents Insurance for the first time.
Full details are in this Shopper Points article.
You should compare the Tesco price with the current Alan Boswell Group insurance deal. Boswell is an Avios partner and they are giving out 5,000 – 10,000 Avios with policies taken out this month. Details are here.
(Want to earn more Avios? Click here to visit our home page for the latest articles on earning and spending your Avios points and click here to see how to earn more Avios from current offers and promotions.)
About Head for Points
OT – Just tried to buy £150 John Lewis GC at WHS T5 and cashier was clearly alarmed. She Telephoned someone and was told max top up was £50. Very strange.
you get these morons in life – nothing you can do about it
I don’t blame the till girl; I do blame the supervisor
had all sorts of nutso responses on the 3Vs as well, most were OK but a few wanted to see theft where there was no theft
All v strange and very over the top!
Anyway, am on first class redemption and about to take off. Thanks to Rob and commenters – wouldn’t have been possible without this site!
I was once told by a Tesco cashier (plus supervisor who was called over) that 3V gift cards could only be bought for cash, “due to fraud”…
Mind you, this was in Manchester 🙂
I did precisely the same in T3. There was no issue whatsoever.
Put it down to incompetence (of their staff, not you!)
Hope you’re currently enjoying BA F
Yep it’s a stupid rule but it’s just £50 per card. I just ended up doing £50 of JL and £50 of M&S. Then a bit of duty free I was going to do anyway.
looks like the 30K limit @ Tesco is not always applied 🙂
(just opened some post my wife brought out)
Get them transferred to Virgin quick!
nope – I’ve got until 13th Sept if I want to do that http://www.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/flying-club/partners/partner-offers.html?cm_mmc=RakutenMarketing-_-Affiliate-_-JddUCKqMSVg-_-10&utm_source=RakutenMarketing&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=JddUCKqMSVg+&utm_content=10&utm_term=464350-1&ranMID=42152&ranEAID=JddUCKqMSVg&ranSiteID=JddUCKqMSVg-jyMNLeTbfeqiKvmSXcdacw%3Fcm_mmc%3DUK+Affiliates-_-Linkshare-_–_-Link&tmplaceref=&tmclickref=&tmad=c&tmcampid=237
Tesco are hardly going to take the extra ones away – & I don’t fancy fiddling with a vpn just for the sake of a couple of days
Has anyone received Heathrow reward points for buying GF? I bought John Lewis GC and stamps at WHS T5 a week ago but no points posted. Wonder if spending on stamps and GF qualify for points. Points on Duty Free shop (the same day) posted 4 days ago so though.
World Duty Free always post quickly as they seem to be directly plugged in to the system, probably a throwback to when BAA owned the airport and the main duty free shop.