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ENDS TONIGHT: Win £600+ of suitcases with HfP and new Avios partner Rolling Luggage

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This week we are running a great competition in association with Rolling Luggage.  One Head for Points reader will win a pretty cool set of new suitcases, worth over £600.

Rolling Luggage is the latest company to join forces with Avios.  You now have the opportunity to collect Avios when buying luggage, either online or instore.

The luggage company, owned by the Samsonite Group, has stores in major airports as well as on high streets in the UK, Denmark, Ireland and Norway, although you can only collect Avios in the UK.  It sells brands such as Samsonite, TUMI, American Tourister, Lipault and Hartmann.

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In the UK, you can find Rolling Luggage stores at the two Westfield centres in London and at St Pancras International station. You will also find them in the following airports:

  • London Heathrow (Terminal 3 Airside, Terminal 3 Landside, Terminal 4 Airside, Terminal 5A Airside, Terminal 5B Airside)
  • Manchester (Terminal 2 Airside, Terminal 3 Airside)
  • Luton
  • Edinburgh

How to collect Avios with Rolling Luggage

You can collect Avios with every purchase online and in their UK stores.

Customers must be members of British Airways Executive Club, AerClub or Avios Travel Rewards Programme (including Flybe)

You will earn 5 Avios per £1 spent

Customers will be awarded 1,000 bonus Avios on their first purchase at Rolling Luggage online or in store with a minimum spend of £100.

If the customer makes a second purchase online or in store within 12 months of the first purchase, 750 bonus Avios will be awarded with a minimum spend of £50.

You can check out their impressive selection on their website here.

Rolling Luggage Avios

Win with our exclusive competiton

To celebrate this new partnership, Rolling Luggage has offered Head for Points a suitcases set to give away in an exclusive competition.

The prize is a set of Cosmolite suitcases comprising:

1 x cabin case – 4 wheeled spinner – 55cm RRP £299
1 x medium case – 4 wheeled spinner – 75cm RRP £385

The set is available in two colours and the winner can choose which one they prefer. The colour options are Ice Blue or Black (see image below). Both cases must be the same colour.

If you don’t win, you can buy a Cosmolite suitcase from the Rolling Luggage site here.

Rolling Luggage Competition Luggage set

As always, all you have to do to enter this competition is fill out the Gleam widget at the bottom of this page with your name and email address.

You can have up to two entries per person:

You receive one entry automatically for completing your details

You receive a 2nd entry if you tick the box to sign up to Rolling Luggage’s email newsletter. A good reason to do this – apart from increasing your chances of winning – is that, once the competition has closed, Rolling Luggage will email you a 10% discount code valid off your first online order.

You need to enter by midnight tonight, Tuesdy 3rd October.  Entry is limited to UK residents only due to logistical delivery issues.

The formal version of the rules is in the widget below if you click ‘Terms & Conditions’.

If you can’t see the Gleam widget below click here to be taken to the special entry page.


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 (55)

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  • Chris says:

    When I try to enter, I put in my name and email, click “Continue”, then the next page says “Sorry you don’t appear to be logged in”, then it flicks back to this page. What’s going on?

  • Tilly says:

    I’ll have to enter when I’m back from France. Won’t let me enter from Nice.

  • barney says:

    OT: Am i eligible for compensation under EU regulation in the following scenario? My AB flight was cancelled less than 7days before departure. I booked rhthe flight through BA with avios.

    • the real harry1 says:

      yes – from AB – so you’ll get nothing, they’re going bump & you’re last in line

      BA owe you nothing in terms of compo but they should sort out your Avios & fees or re-route you

  • Rob says:

    Yes, but as AB is bust I doubt they are paying!

  • Olly Loosemore says:

    As always, wanted to say thank you for the input you put into things. Have been visiting my sister using RFS for the past two years, in Business Class on BA. Mean’s I can go and see her, and her three screaming children much more often. And in November, my first big Avios redemption, Colombia with Iberia in Premium Economy. So thank you for all the hints and tips, it really is appreciated! And you throw in a competition or two as well!

  • EOC says:

    Phoned rolling luggage about much cheaper deals else where- they price matched which was good..

  • Dave R says:

    Great competition. Thanks

    I need a new cabin case after BA managed to break mine putting/shoving it into at overhead locker.

  • Chris says:

    Hi Rob,

    Query for you unrelated to this post. I have spent around £13k on my free BA amex this year, the year ending in a few days. I could upgrade to the paid card and get my companion voucher, and then downgrade again but am not sure if it’s realistically worth the effort and checks on the credit score. I only have 10000 points at the minute and am not sure if i’ll be able to gather enough points within the next two years to make the companion voucher worthwhile. What is your opinion on it? How easy is the downgrade to the free card once you’ve upgraded?

    Cheers

    • Rob says:

      It seems a shame not to – you could, after all, pick up 44,000 Avios in under a year simply by churning an Amex Gold (get, trigger bonus, cancel, wait 6 months, repeat) – or 88,000 plus referral bonuses if you referred your partner too.

      What are you down? £15 per month for the BAPP card. Assume you downgraded again after 2 months, that is £30 spent. Even if you used your 2-4-1 on 2 economy tickets to Spain, you’re saving 15,000 Avios which is worth £150 or so.

      • Chris says:

        Point well made, I’ll get the upgrade done today. Do you know if the upgrade will appear as an additional application on the credit score? The adviser at AMEX said it wouldn’t but i’m dubious.

        • Chris says:

          Spoke to AMEX – my cut off date for this year is the 3rd so they’ve said that I wont get the new card before then so wont get the companion voucher 🙁

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