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Earn bonus Heathrow Rewards points on fashion purchases

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Heathrow Rewards has launched a new bonus for purchases at certain fashion retailers in the airport. 

Heathrow Rewards gives you 1 point for every £1 spent in Heathrow (1 per £10 on foreign exchange) or on Heathrow Express tickets (online bookings only). Once you’ve earned 250 points you can exchange them for miles or shopping vouchers.

Until 30th September, you will get the following bonuses:

Heathrow Rewards fashion bonus

  • 250 extra points when you spend £50 – £149.99 (Accessorize and Cath Kidston only)
  • 500 extra points when you spend £150 – £199.99
  • 1,000 extra points when you spend £200 – £349.99
  • 1,500 extra points when you spend £350 – £499.99
  • 2,000 extra points when you spend £500 or more

Participating retailers are Accessorize, Anya Hindmarch, Bottega Veneta, Bulgari, Burberry, Cath Kidston, Chanel, Collection, Dior, Gucci, Harrods, Hermes, HUGO, Hugo Boss, Jack Wills, John Lewis, Kate Spade, Kurt Geiger, Lacoste, Louis Vuitton, Mulberry, Paul Smith, Prada, Reiss, Saint Laurent, Smythson, Superdry, Sunglass Hut, Sunglasses Boutique, Ted Baker, Thomas Pink and Valentino.  It excludes Harrods Signature stores and Harrods Fine Watch Room.  Registration is not necessary.

Remember that you can get a further 3,000 bonus Heathrow Rewards points (worth 3,000 Avios) if you sign-up via this link and spend £150 in one day before the end of the year.


How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (October 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

Get 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

30,000 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

50,000 bonus points and great travel benefits – for a large 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.

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

10,000 points bonus – plus an extra 500 points for our readers Read our full review

There is also a British Airways American Express card for small businesses:

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

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

Up to 80,000 points when you sign-up and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

Get up to 40,000 points as a sign-up offer 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.

Comments (117)

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  • Roger says:

    Also FT £25 back on £30 spend

  • Crafty says:

    OT: Sorry for repeating, this was lost in the late evening shuffle.

    If I no show for a (Ryanair) flight, will there be any issues for my 2 year old daughter travelling? There are 3 other adults on the booking, who would all be travelling, including my partner (who is my daughter’s mother). I am just worried that they might have “tagged” her ticket to mine in some way.

    I dont want to ask the airline this directly for obvious reasons.

    • Anna says:

      I can’t see a problem in theory if all the other pax including mum are on the same PNR, however some countries have rules about young children traveling with one parent needing the consent of the second one, and if the surnames are different there could be an issue.

      • Michael C says:

        Yes, as Anna says, only possible problem would be with only one parent travelling – I’d take a copy of the daughter’s birth certificate just in case.

        • Crafty says:

          Thanks. We haven’t had it mentioned to us so far, though the couple directly after us coming into E Midlands received a lengthy explanation about “next time”. The child’s surname is a double barrelled combination of both of ours; is that considered “different”?

        • J says:

          We’re told to take: copy of birth certificate, photocopy of non travelling partner’s passport, and a signed letter of consent (there are templates online) – including name, dob, passport numbers for the three of you (two parents and child), departure airport and date, and if applicable, return flight airport and date. Then sign and date. As you said, chances are if you don’t have these, they will just wave through and request them next time – especially, I understand, if the child is travelling with their mother. I’ve heard (and this may just be travel gossip, but I suspect not), that they are much more vigilent if they are travelling alone with their father.

  • Robman says:

    No Amex travel offerings any of mine or my wife’s cards including Platinum and Gold.
    Very disappointing as we used these offers last time around which was great.
    Did anyone receive this offer again if you redeemed it last time it was offered?

    • Amit says:

      I did redeem before and still got the offer (£200 off £600) on my plat

      • Robman says:

        Lucky you.

        • Kinkell says:

          Indeed! We have totally useless offers. Not had anything decent for ages, Getting a bit cheesed off hearing about some great offers that don’t appear on any of our 6 cards. I’d love to know how Amex decide who does /doesn’t get them .

    • Mike L says:

      Same here, 4 cards, 2 gold and 2 BAPP -nothing and I could easily use it for hotels in Barcelona later this month – disappointing

      • MDA says:

        Try calling amex customer service and asking. Believe it works then

        • Robman says:

          I called Amex customer service and they were adamant that the offers are targeted and they no longer have the option to manually add individual offers to your card. So I’m flat out of luck.

        • Mike L says:

          Thanks but my experience of this is the same as Robman below. They can’t / won’t add manually

    • Will says:

      I redeemed last time, no sign of it this time.

      Keep checking though as the TripAdvisor offer appeared on mine about a week after others reported it live.

    • Tom Cook says:

      I used the offer for a hotel booking in Florence in June the last time it came round, not in my Plat now annoyingly.

  • Andrew says:

    Has Louis Vuitton now started accepting Heathrow Rewards?

    • MH says:

      Yes- I used it in T3 LV last week

    • Rob says:

      I wondered that, because when they opened they were very strict about not accepting it. But they are on the list. I will email the HR head on Monday.

      • Andrew says:

        Thanks Rob, be good to know for sure. Connected: Harrods have started to get tight on refusing to add Harrods points retrospectively if you use Heathrow points card in store – so the advice is to used Harrods card in store and then do a retroapective cliam with Heathrow.

  • X says:

    OT: I have recently applied for the Amex Rewards credit card (the ones with the blue square), and I have been trying to add it to my online account, however, I wasn’t successful – I’ve received the message saying it cannot be added and to create a new Amex ID. Is this due to the fact that I already have a Gold card? Or should I just give them a call?

    • Peter K says:

      Somebody on here says that leaving it a couple of days usually works and then it can be added to your main online amex account.
      Phoning should work. Creating a new account, adding it, then ringing later to combine accounts also apparently works.

      • X says:

        Hi, yeah I’ve spoken to them. They’ve told me to either create a new acc and then phone up so they can combine them, or wait 5-7 days and then try to add it again/phone up

        • Alan says:

          Yep, I has this with my recent BAPP – as Peter says, give it a few days then try again. There seems to be some manual internal process that can take a while.

  • Ryan Thomas says:

    Can’t see the offer on my offers. Was told that this was rolled on the 4th September? Can anyone confirm that?

    • Darren says:

      I have it on my Platinum and have added it to my card. Just need a reason to use it now!

  • fbrj says:

    I got the £200 offer on my Plat. My daughter is the supplementary card holder (for the travel insurance and PP lounge access). She also has the same offer on her card. Most of the other offers appear on both cards but not all.

    Do we get the £200 twice or just the once?

    • Crafty says:

      If you spend the target on each card.

    • Roger says:

      One per card.
      If the offer is on two separate card ( even if supplementary card) it will work fine.

    • Alan says:

      Ooh good point, forgot to check supp card! Have got it on both, now need to work out what to spend £1,200 on!

    • fbrj says:

      Thank you all for your replies. Looks promising……

  • Maxime says:

    I’ve contacted Amex customer service and I quote “In order to be eligible for the credit of £200, you need to spend £600 or more in one single transaction on pre-paid hotels, flights, car hire or experiences through American Express Travel”

    Spend doesn’t appear to be cumulative… did anybody hear otherwise?

    • PF says:

      Amex also telling me it must be a single transaction, but posts elsewhere suggesting it works with multiple. Did you get confirmation either way?

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