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Get £10 American Express cashback on Heathrow Express train tickets

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American Express has launched a new cashback deal with Heathrow Express.

It is showing on my Platinum charge card and my British Airways Premium Plus card but not my Starwood Amex.

You get £10 back on a £35+ Heathrow Express purchase.  The deadline to use the deal is 19th May.  There is no guarantee that this works with cumulative purchases but it is worth a try if you are buying Heathrow Express tickets anyway.

Amex Heathrow Express cashback

A handful of people are reporting a less generous offer of 10% back, but £10 appears to be the most common version.

Remember that you can also earn 10 Avios per £1 spent on Heathrow Express tickets if you use the heathrowexpress.com/avios landing page.  This is more attractive than the standard rewards offer of 1 Heathrow Rewards point per £1 spent.


Want to earn more points from credit cards? – April 2024 update

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

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Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

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.

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

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

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:

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

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

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

Huge 30,000 points bonus until 12th May 2024 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 on your spending.

Barclaycard Select Cashback Business Credit Card

1% cashback uncapped* on all your business spending (T&C apply) Read our full review

Comments (71)

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  • Mr Dee says:

    Is there actually anyone who can confirm that the premium Asda card is being devalued to 0.2% as not received a letter from them about it, I do note it was said on the shopper points website

  • Mr Dee says:

    Never used to visit ASDA before I got the card, the prices are reasonable and they offer the brand match guarantee also. If the premium card is going down too then its bad news.

  • Vin says:

    same here, I hope they track

  • Lee says:

    same here, did receive the email about thank you for using offer though

  • Louise says:

    Posted 7 days after my transaction if it helps

  • Rob says:

    So, it is not really a connection at all. No through check-in of baggage, presumably a third party picks them up at Dublin and you collect them from a certain spot as happens at Gatwick. If you miss the connection you need to pay for a new flight but you will get it back via insurance. Hardly seamless.

    • Tom1 says:

      I thought it would be a way for Aer Lingus to fill surplus capacity, by selling discounted fares from other EU airports ‘connecting’ through Dub.
      But to avoid the higher UK APD, they can’t sell as one ticket.
      The article also makes it sound like you will get 2 tickets -but then what’s to stop Dublin passengers buying one of these tickets and skipping the first leg? is the third party also checking this ?

  • Tom1 says:

    Guess it wont include UK airports, otherwise Aer Lingus will have to subsidise the overall fare sufficiently to offset the higher APD?

  • Jon says:

    OT but a heads up in case useful: possibly just my bad luck, or maybe something peculiar to Malaysia where I am now, but it appears that the new debit-rather-than-credit Curve cards (and also Revolut, so perhaps any of the “virtual debit” style cards) are not accepted by those card readers that are designed to be plugged into an iPad/iPhone/laptop/PC etc. They work fine with the usual standalone / self-dialling readers but not with the dumb-terminal ones used by a lot of smaller shops, market stalls, taxis etc…

    • Combat Johnny says:

      Thanks. I am going to malaysia in a few weeks and was planning on just taking my curve. Ill pack another card too incase

      • Rob says:

        Always good advice irrespective of what card you are packing.

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