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Get £15 cashback or 1,500 Avios with a £100 British Airways flight purchase via Amex

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British Airways and American Express have launched a new cashback or points deal which appears generous, especially as it can be combined with the current sale deals.

Remember that there are Club Europe seats on offer for as low as £140 return in the January sale as I covered here.  Long-haul BA sale deals are discussed here.

The offer only appears to be added to British Airways American Express cards, either free or Premium Plus, although it is worth checking any other cards you have.

BA Premium Plus American Express card BAPP

There are two variants:

£15 cashback when you spend £100+ at ba.com by 30th January.  My wife has this version.

1,500 Avios – added to your BA Amex balance and transferred to BA with your normal Avios for card spending – when you spend £100+ at ba.com by 30th January.  I have this version.

Both offers state that they are valid for the first 20,000 people to save them to their card.  You can do this from the ‘Offers’ tab of your online BA Amex statement page, assuming you have the offer.  It isn’t clear if this is 20,000 users across both deals or per deal.

To avoid missing out, you should go to the Amex website here NOW and save the offer.  Do read the Terms & Conditions before booking.

Remember that the offer will almost certainly pay out on redemption bookings as long as the taxes are over £100.  I imagine that it will also trigger if you pay £100 towards any BA Holidays package you have booked.

It will NOT work if you buy £100 of Avios via ba.com. This is because ‘buy Avios’ transactions are purchased by points.com and you will see their name on your Amex statement.

The BA credit card surcharge is now 1% of the booking cost.  This will fall to nothing on 13th January when the law bans such surcharges.  That said, the base Avios received on your British Airways American Express card will offset the fee so the bonus Avios or cashback is still a genuine ‘extra’.

PS.  Here’s a little tip if you are close to £100 but not quite there.

It seems, at least on the version I was served yesterday, that the new BA website no longer allows you to make a small charitable donation to Flying Start or to offset your CO2 emissions.  This is annoying because it would have been a way of rounding up ticket sales which were just short of £100 – eg £96 – to trigger the cashback or bonus Avios.

However, you can still access the old British Airways website by starting your flight search here.  Use this website and you can add a charitable donation of 50p, £2.50 or £5.50 during the payment process.


best travel rewards credit cards

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If you are looking to apply for a new credit card, here are our top recommendations based on the current 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

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Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

Get 5,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £20,000 Read our full review

You can see our full directory of all UK cards which earn airline or hotel points here. Here are the best of the other deals currently available.

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

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

30,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher 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

Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard

18,000 bonus points and 1.5 points for every £1 you spend Read our full review

Earning miles and points from small business cards

If you are a sole trader or run a small company, you may also want to check out these offers:

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

Capital on Tap Pro Visa

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

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

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

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

For a non-American Express option, we also recommend the Barclaycard Select Cashback card for sole traders and small businesses. It is FREE and you receive 1% cashback when you spend at least £2,000 per month.

Barclaycard Select Cashback Business Credit Card

Get 1% cashback when you spend at least £2,000 per month* Read our full review

Comments (96)

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  • Tim_T says:

    No offer on either of my BA premium plus cards unfortunately – feeling unloved

    • the real harry1 says:

      yep, they hate you, it’s personal – this time with a vengeance

  • Fiona Slessor says:

    Thanks! £15 offer for me!

  • Chris says:

    Another Amex offer where they don’t include me! These offers can be counter productive as Tim T says above. Time to churn…

    • Tim_T says:

      It’s a shame when I don’t get an offer that I would use, but I am thankful that offers do appear and some times I’m lucky and others not. I have just redeemed £200 back for booking via American Express travel, that’s nearly half my platinum card fee in one go.

      • KevMc says:

        Do you mind my asking if you booked a single transaction of £600+, or did you book multiple transactions which accumulated to £600+?

        • Stu N says:

          Past offers have worked on cumulative spend, I’m 99% sure this one will too. Amex Travel usually bill separately for each passenger on a single flight booking so would be very awkward if it wasn’t cumulative.

  • Dan says:

    No offer for me , thx Amex , time to start using my other cards

  • Monika says:

    Got 1500 avios on my free ba American express but nothing on gold card. Will come in handy as I need to book flight plus car for a weekend in Belfast ????

  • Richard Blundell says:

    Thanks for heads up. Got the 1500 points on both cards. Just made payment towards already booked holiday.

  • Saxon says:

    Saved the £15 offer. Coincentally I made a redemption booking yesterday which is ‘pending’ on my Amex account, I wonder if this will trigger it when the payment is confirmed?

    Going o/t, the redemption was my first big one, thanks for all the advice on the site as there is no way we would have booked the flights for cash! (2 people return to Hong Kong in First)

    • Stu N says:

      You might be lucky if it’s still showing as “pending”.

      Congrats on getting that redemption, it’s one of the best value ones going. We are going to HK in the spring in F too – can’t wait!

      • the real harry1 says:

        is HK the route where you save a lot of money by booking 2x one ways?

        • Rob says:

          Yes, because there is no fuel surcharge on the return. No 241 if you do that though. Same with Brazil.

  • George Budd says:

    1500 Avios on BAPP here… which is probably worth more on a 2-4-1 redemption than the £15 anyway.

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