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If you have a stack of Heathrow Rewards points sitting around, this is the opportunity you have been waiting for to unload them. 

Heathrow Rewards is the loyalty scheme covering the shops, restaurants, money exchange and parking facilities at Heathrow Airport.  You earn 1 point for every £1 you spend, or 2 points per £1 once you’ve spent over £750 in a year and been upgraded to the Premium tier.  Points can be redeemed for Heathrow shopping vouchers, Heathrow Express tickets, parking vouchers or miles with a variety of airlines including British Airways, Lufthansa, Emirates, Aegean, Royal Brunei, Singapore Airlines and Virgin Atlantic.

Starting today, and running until Monday 30th July, you will receive a 100% bonus when you transfer your Heathrow Rewards points into Heathrow shopping vouchers.

Heathrow Rewards

Every 250 points you transfer will get you a £5 Heathrow voucher.  This can be spent on virtually anything in the airport, except foreign currency.  Vouchers are valid for 12 months.

This is a very strong deal.  It makes little sense to redeem your points for airline miles at 1 mile per point when you could get 2p of shopping vouchers instead.

Heathrow Rewards has been running transfer bonuses on points into airline miles recently.  These may or may not come back.  However, even if you hold off in the anticipation of a 100% bonus, you would still be ‘paying’ 1p per mile compared to cashing in now.  More importantly, 100% airline bonuses now seem to be restricted to ‘Premium’ members of Heathrow Rewards – standard members have only been offered a 50% airline bonus in recent deals.

If you’ve got a stash of Heathrow Rewards points, and as long as you are passing through Heathrow on a regular basis, you should have a serious think about redeeming this week.

The offer will be live at some point during today.  If it isn’t showing when you log in, I recommend waiting for a couple of hours and trying again.  Do not redeem your points until you see this offer on the Heathrow Rewards website.

Please note that, whilst Heathrow shopping vouchers normally arrive in the post within a few days, because of the anticipated demand for this offer Heathrow Rewards is saying that you may need to wait up to 28 days to receive them.

There is also an interesting but complex deal you can do to get 1p per American Express Membership Rewards point if you redeem them now.  I have done a separate article today (click here) on how that works.

PS.  If you are heading to Heathrow in the next 48-72 hours, you could use this offer to get a very generous rebate on a purchase.  Via this offer, new Heathrow Rewards members get 3,000 bonus points when spending £150.  This means that someone opening a new account and spending exactly £150 would receive 3,150 points plus another 100 points joining bonus.

As long as you redeem by 30th July – and HR points usually post within a couple of days – your 3,250 points would get you £65 of Heathrow vouchers.  This is an excellent return on £150 of spending.

Whilst the link above is an Avios offer and talks about converting your bonus to Avios, in reality you can send the 3,000 bonus Heathrow Rewards points wherever you want – including for shopping vouchers.

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

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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.

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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 (65)

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  • BJ says:
    24 Jul24 July 06:29

    Does the HR account holder need to use the voucher or can they be given to somebody else?

    • KBuffet says:
      24 Jul24 July 06:46

      I’ve given my wife my vouchers on multiple occasions with no issues (without having accompanied her).

      • BJ says:
        24 Jul24 July 07:55

        Thanks, are the vouchers issued only in £5 denominations? Is it ok to use a large number of these against a single purchase such as a phone?

        • Rob says:
          24 Jul24 July 09:08

          Yes

        • Jordan D says:
          24 Jul24 July 12:02

          Yes – my father used my vouchers from last year’s offer to buy a watch using a stack of the vouchers. No issues whatsoever. Made my Premium level spend for this year, got a whole host of points and around we go again.

    • Alan says:
      24 Jul24 July 08:06

      Varies by store. Strictly they are non-transferable. My folks had a big stash (from Emirates Skywards points) and used them fine at a clothes store but then Dixons refused them as they said the name must match. The vouchers always come in £5 chunks so if spending hundreds can take them a while writing on them, giving them lots of time to read them (the account holder name and HR numbers are printed on them). Given my past experience I’d say much better to assume account holder has to be present when redeeming.

      • BJ says:
        24 Jul24 July 08:17

        Cheers Alan, in that case I better hold onto them until next June.

      • BJ says:
        24 Jul24 July 08:22

        Just realised that if it is not a duty free store (Dixons Travel isn’t) then I believe we are not obliged to show them our boarding pass with our name even if they ask.

        • Anna says:
          24 Jul24 July 08:30

          You’re not obliged to show it but they might then say it’s against their policy to serve you. Had this argument a few times!

        • BJ says:
          24 Jul24 July 08:50

          @Anna, thanks, isn’t the reason they want to see it so that they can claim VAT back if we are travelling outside the EU? If we were, is it not then likely that they would be more interested in getting the sale than making a fuss over the name on the voucher?

          • Rob says:
            24 Jul24 July 09:14

            Correct. All shops need to see the boarding card because of the VAT adjustment. The only exception technically would be if you were buying something zero rates eg a book.

            Buy a £10 tshirt in Heathrow and the shop gets either £10 (flying outside EU) or £8.33 (flying inside EU, VAT payable). This is why some shops reportedly get a little creative when typing in your flight number …..

        • James P says:
          24 Jul24 July 09:36

          I’d need several hands to count the number of times I’ve bought things from Dixons Travel after showing my boarding pass to discover that my receipt says that I’m flying to South Africa…

  • RTS says:
    24 Jul24 July 07:36

    Awesome thanks. Been waiting for this!

  • Roger says:
    24 Jul24 July 07:47

    Can I still get this offer if I redeem points in Dixon’s / WDF instead of ordering vouchers? Just my luck am traveling from T5 today 🙁

    • BJ says:
      24 Jul24 July 08:05

      Sorry Roger, I checked that a few minutes ago. Instant rewards are still showing as £5/500points even though the voucher offer is already live. I plan to take the vouchers even though I may not be in LHR myself again until next June.

  • Matt says:
    24 Jul24 July 08:01

    Does anyone know when the vouchers would expire?

  • gidon says:
    24 Jul24 July 08:22

    Just ordered
    “Please allow at least 10 working days if you live in the UK or 15 working days if you live outside the UK for your voucher(s) to arrive.”

    • Rob says:
      24 Jul24 July 09:06

      Those are the usual rules. I was told to tell you it might take longer!

  • Mike says:
    24 Jul24 July 09:19

    I’ve just converted 24,000 Emirates miles, which now appear on my list of transactions in Heathrow Rewards, but not on my points balance. I have received an e-mail 30 minutes ago from Heathrow Rewards saying they have transferred and good to go. Is there usually a lag between the transaction appearing in My Transactions and a useable points balance??

  • Ant says:
    24 Jul24 July 09:48

    Is it just me but when i go to the order confirmation stage it stills hows at the rate of 500 points £5.

    • New Card says:
      24 Jul24 July 09:51

      True – but you should be able to order double the number of vouchers for the same number of points…

      • Ant says:
        24 Jul24 July 10:38

        thanks. Didn’t notice that bit. Ordered 82 vouchers, be fun when i use them for one item.

  • Mr Dee says:
    24 Jul24 July 10:19

    Best stores to spend at Heathrow except Dixons Travel, was thinking of cashing in a few hundred pounds worth?

    • Joe says:
      24 Jul24 July 10:55

      You can shop online at Heathrow Boutique and then reserve what you like so you can just pick up and pay with your vouchers rather than trudging round the shops.

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