Are the Lloyds Avios Rewards credit cards now fully closed to new applicants?

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• Geoff says:

  4 May4 May 10:04

  Slightly confused – you mention ‘ £24 Mastercard earning 0.25 Avios per £1’ but there is still the Amex which earns 1.25 per £1. We use it as our main overseas card for the zero FX fees (and of course the upgrade voucher).

  Incidentally, I also have an old TSB Avios Duo Amex/MC account, from the days before the split with Lloyds. Ever since the TSB IT fiasco, and semi-recovery, I note that the account is now called ‘Avios (MC)’ and referenced by the MC card number whereas before everything referred to the Amex card number. The Lloyds account is still referenced to the Amex card no.

  • Iain findlay says:

    4 May4 May 13:07

    Dear Geoff
    Which Amexcard charges no Fx fee?
    Iain

    • the_real_a says:

      4 May4 May 14:09

      He is referring to the Llyods Avios AMEX – they come as a double pack with a mastercard. Both are FX free. The AMEX comes with enhanced earnings rate of 1.25 avios per £1 spend.

  • guesswho2000 says:

    4 May4 May 15:59

    The Amex will be gone soon, American Express have cancelled their licences for co-brand cards, and there’s no benefit to anyone offering one now (as the interchange is capped), so the days are numbered. I believe this was the last one available to be applied for, since MBNA pulled all theirs last year.

• Optimus Prime says:

  4 May4 May 10:11

  OT – let’s say you redeem a BA Amex 241 voucher with an open jaw flight such as LHR-LAX and LAS-LHR. Then you use avios or cash to book LAX-LAS and would like to fly on same date of arrival at LAX. Can you have this flight added to the 241 ticket so BA is liable in case of missed connection?

  Thanks in advance.

  • Catalan says:

    4 May4 May 10:41

    No. The LAX-LAS flight would be on a separate ticket and therefore will not be added to form a ‘thru booking’. Any delays would be the responsibility of the LAX-LAS carrier and not BA.

    • Catalan says:

      4 May4 May 10:47

      …sorry, I meant any delay to you LHR-LAX flight causing you to miss your LAX-LAS flight would be your responsibility.

      • Optimus Prime says:

        4 May4 May 11:06

        Thanks, that’s what I thought.

      • JamesB says:

        4 May4 May 11:56

        More fundamentally, LAX-LAS is impossible on a 241 as it is operated by AA not BA.

    • Callum says:

      4 May4 May 12:42

      Are they able to put it on the same ticket though? Avios.com do it for me – I’ve added extra flights onto a voucher booking to take advantage of lower taxes ex-EU (full price BIO-LHR added to an upgraded LHR-SCL).

      I think the Lloyds vouchers are processed differently to BA though.

      • Anna says:

        4 May4 May 16:15

        BA might be able to, but they won’t. They won’t even link bookings for family members on the same flight.

        • Rob says:

          4 May4 May 16:21

          They will if you are Gold, apparently, although I have never done it.

      • Sussex Bantam says:

        4 May4 May 22:06

        They do if you’re Gold – I do it whenever we use 2 * 241 vouchers so the family can travel. Means the whole party get seat selection and, apparently, will be looked after as one group should something go technical (never tested the last part).

        You have to call to do this.

• Anonymous says:

  4 May4 May 12:35

  Partner just got the Lloyds card processed last week, must have just missed the cut off. Main question is how do they know where to send the Avios / upgrade voucher as they never asked for a BAEC number, we don’t have an Avios.com account (and it’s going to be all rolled into BAEC anyway isn’t it?). They also didn’t offer clarity on whether supplementary card spend would count towards the £7k for the voucher and also get double points (it should I feel, but would be nice to get reassurance).

  I believe the MasterCard is fairly useless unless you need to use Curve to hit the £7k target for the voucher (don’t think it even gets double points in the first six months).

  A question I have is what would be the best portfolio of cards for ~£2-£2.5k per month spend. If you have the BAPP and the Lloyds Avios card and you pull off all the little tricks and achieve £27k spend a year that is potentially two 2-4-1s and an upgrade voucher (useful for positioning flights for an ex-EU/Cairo). Is it worth replacing any of these cards for the HSBC World Elite card?

  • Darren says:

    4 May4 May 13:04

    Supplementary card counts towards the spend.

    Lloyds have never managed to send my avios anywhere, I have/had an Avios.com account and I’ll be interested to see if the changes to send them to my BAEC account will work. If you have issues with the transfer of avios, register a complaint and you should get compensation.

    • mark2 says:

      4 May4 May 13:28

      Sadly, my Lloyds account has always worked perfectly so I have received no compensation. My wife’s, however, is a different, happier, story with no Avios awarded and no statement but £850 compensation so far.

      • Darren says:

        4 May4 May 14:31

        That’s impressive, I’m only at £400.

      • Darren says:

        4 May4 May 16:22

        I’ve called to check and when they say it takes 26wks to sort it out (yes weeks) tell them that you’d like to complain. The compensation is given so that you accept that it may take some time to sort it out and the complaint is closed. I believe that there are financial legalities involved, I just accept the comp.

        You may not have an issue, the transfer to BAEC may work fine.

    • Anna says:

      4 May4 May 16:16

      Yes, keep on at them. This year I’ve had £350 compensation, 12,000 extras avios and 3 upgrade vouchers!

      • Boi says:

        4 May4 May 22:05

        I have had a £100 cheque and an apology from Lloyd’s about delay in processing my Avios properly. My Lloyd’s card was cancelled over a year ago, I had no outstanding issues. This was just random

• FormalHall says:

  4 May4 May 12:59

  Has everyone had their avios credited yet following the years of technical difficulties with the Lloyds cards? After two years and £300 of compensation, I have received a letter saying all avios are credited, and on my avios statement its says they were credited in 2016 – but I am certain I never received them (otherwise why did they pay the compensation?). When I rang about the 4500 refer a friend bonus I am still owed, Lloyds said I would have to call avios!

  • Darren says:

    4 May4 May 13:06

    No, still receiving compensation.

  • mark2 says:

    4 May4 May 14:00

    Amazingly my wife just received 405 Avios for Mastercard spend; the first (automatically) since she took out the card several years ago.

• Kevin says:

  4 May4 May 13:10

  Nice trip report. Glad you enjoyed the prize.

  I did the a380 DOH to CDG last month (business was full) and liked the bar a lot. The snacks in glasses (things like salmon and soba noodles or cheesecake) were very good.

  • Graeme says:

    4 May4 May 13:12

    Well done, Lee, good to hear you had such a great time!

    • Lee says:

      5 May5 May 19:41

      Thanks, Graeme. Great flights and a great trip, all very good!

  • Lee says:

    5 May5 May 19:40

    Thanks, Kevin. Yes, the bar, snacks, and drinks are all very good!

• Andrew says:

  4 May4 May 13:32

  I thought it was just me this morning . I typed my message then clicked submit , but nothing posted.
  Also, when I post Rob, I receive an error message to say I am making multiple postings and need to slow down !

  • Andrew says:

    4 May4 May 13:32

    Now it worked !

• Hugh says:

  4 May4 May 13:43

  OT: I assume that there is no bonus running at the moment for adding a supplementary card holder to a BAPP card?

  • RichS says:

    4 May4 May 14:00

    I got the bonus this week for adding my wife, I waited until targeted link appeared in the app. I screen shot it in case the avios didn’t appear, although seems no need as points already credited (card not yet arrived).

• mark2 says:

  4 May4 May 13:56

  I got 3,000 for adding my wife in the last few weeks. Not everything is advertised.

  • Hugh says:

    4 May4 May 14:19

    Interesting! Any idea how long you had to wait for the offer to appear? My newly churned card arrived this morning.

    It will be a bit harder to hit the spend target with just one card but it would also be good to get the bonus!

    • mark2 says:

      4 May4 May 16:22

      As I said ‘Not everything is advertised’. No offer appeared; I left it a week or so and just applied.

      • Hugh says:

        4 May4 May 16:52

        Thanks. I will leave it a couple of weeks and do the same!

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