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Shirt company – and Avios partner – Charles Tyrwhitt is offering a discount on purchases from now until the end of the month.

Enter code BUTTONUK on the website and you will save:

Avios Charles Tyrwhitt

  • £5 off a £50 spend
  • £10 off a £75 spend
  • £15 off a £100 spend

Tyrwhitt is also offering double Avios on all purchases before 31st January, meaning that you will receive 8 Avios per £1 spent.  You can order via their site here.

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.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 12th May 2024, the Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa card is offering a bonus of 30,000 points, convertible into 30,000 Avios. You must have a Limited Company to apply. Click here to learn more and click here to apply.

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.

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Comments (68)

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  • James says:
    10 Jan10 January 08:41

    I’ve finally moved from Afghanistan….

  • wally1976 says:
    10 Jan10 January 08:42

    OT – as a data point – I applied for an Amex SPG card only 4 months after cancelling my last one and they have refused me the welcome bonus. No complaints of course, I took a gamble and it didn’t pay off!

    • Mikee says:
      10 Jan10 January 17:43

      I accidentally applied 1 day before my 6 month churn date had elapsed and didn’t get the bonus either. The spend calculator bar didn’t change with any purchases and when I called them, they told me I couldn’t get the bonus, even being just 1 day outside the 6 month window.

      • Genghis says:
        10 Jan10 January 17:47

        There were previous reports of someone doing it every few months and getting the bonuses. I guess Amex have clamped down.

  • Andrew says:
    10 Jan10 January 09:17

    I booked a flight early hours of this morning (just after midnight) and the surcharge was still there

  • PT says:
    10 Jan10 January 09:42

    Curiously the BA credit card surcharge wasn’t applied when I did a 2-4-1 booking on Sunday night.

    I don’t know whether it had anything to do with me successfully suing BA in the small claims court for not refunding the credit card charge when I had a cancelled booking last year, but I was actually expecting to pay the 1% and didn’t have to.

  • Lister says:
    10 Jan10 January 09:42

    Hard to get excited. My weekly BA flight of £128.13 including the credit card surcharge has now gone up to £130 with no credit surcharge.

  • Lewis says:
    10 Jan10 January 10:06

    Just my luck booked on sunday

  • Anna says:
    10 Jan10 January 10:18

    OT – is it possible to pre-book airport lounges as as Lounge Club member? I have some free passes from Amex gold and want to use them on the late Bank Holiday weekend in May but the T3 Escape lounge is very likely to be full when we arrive!

    • Anna says:
      10 Jan10 January 10:18

      At MAN.

    • Rob says:
      10 Jan10 January 12:03

      Only No 1 allows this, as far as I know.

      • Anna says:
        10 Jan10 January 14:11

        Thanks…probably bring a picnic then as T3 is generally dire and heaving at peak times. Also refuse to pay for BOB. But have got RFS flights to Nice on Monaco Grand Prix weekend so otherwise very happy! And a week at Eurocamp on the French Riviera for considerably less than going to a similar (probably rainy) site in the UK.

  • Cuchlainn says:
    10 Jan10 January 10:26

    OT – TESCO PREMIER MC :
    Just received offer of 5,000 CCpoints to sign up via special link. Read full T&Cs and this is in addition to 5,000 CC points after you spend £5K pa – all other benefits and fees are same.

    Is this worth a punt with extra 5,000 CC points now, as could easily put £5K diesel and groceries through pa ?

    • Lumma says:
      10 Jan10 January 10:53

      If you use the 5000 Clubcard points for uber credit you’re getting £150 worth of value which would cover the annual fee for the first year

      • Rob says:
        10 Jan10 January 12:01

        I’ve had a few emails about this. My view – as the Uber credit equals the fee, do it for a year (especially if you can use the travel insurance and you haven’t got a grandfathered Visa or MC offering a better deal).

        Personally … I wouldn’t. I have travel insurance, I don’t spend £5k in Tesco and I have grandfathered Visa and MasterCard products which get me a better return than 0.6 Avios per £1. Even with the £150 fee being offset by £150 of Uber credit it simply isn’t worth padding out my credit card pile.

        • Cuchlainn says:
          10 Jan10 January 23:18

          Thanks Lumma but Uber is a non starter for me practically.

          Rob,
          See where you’re coming from but 5,000 points ( initial link offer ) + 5,000 points ( 1 point for £5K spend on daily shop / fuel ) + bonus of 5,000 points for spending £5k = 15,000 CC points, which converts to 60 x £2.50 Avios / BAEC vouchers = 36,000 Avios.

          Yes it costs me £5k plus £150 fee to get 36,000 but I need to get food on the table and diesel in the car but that gives me a 2 x pax return DUB to ACE ( 34,000 Avios ) for approx £150 tax ????????

        • Cuchlainn says:
          12 Jan12 January 13:04

          But debit card has no bonuses : 5,000 x 2 ( if you get Tesco link sent by them ).

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