New BA Amex offer – get 1,000 bonus Avios for £100 of British Airways spend

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• Liz says:

  1 Aug1 August 07:31

  I have spend £500 at britishairwayscruise118.com and get 2500 Avios. No plans for any cruises so no good for me.

  • Crafty says:

    1 Aug1 August 10:10

    What a strange business for them to partner with.

    • ThinkSquare says:

      1 Aug1 August 11:51

      Lots of people fly to (e.g.) Miami to start cruises

      • Crafty says:

        3 Aug3 August 17:34

        I was referring to BAs continuing attempt to position itself, despite all evidence to the contrary, as a premium brand.

• Stuart says:

  1 Aug1 August 07:36

  Think today will be a good day to pay to select my seat on my return club world from Miami, £111 on the upper deck of the 747. The 1000 extra avios will ease the pain slightly

  • Titus Adduxas says:

    1 Aug1 August 07:45

    I point blank refuse to pay to pick my seat on BA. £111 is absolutely outrageous fir picking a seat in business class; I know of no other airline that does it. We check in and pick our seats 24 hours before departure (earlier with different statuses) which golf course is free!

    • BJ says:

      1 Aug1 August 08:07

      They are not alone, Thai have even started charging to select first class seats!

  • Titus Adduxas says:

    1 Aug1 August 08:00

    I point blank refuse to pay to pick my seat on BA. £111 is absolutely outrageous for picking a seat in business class; I know of no other airline that does it. We check in and pick our seats 24 hours before departure (earlier with different statuses) which of course is free!

    • Genghis says:

      1 Aug1 August 08:11

      If I didn’t have status I’d refuse to pay too. You can generally still get reasonable options at t-24

      • BJ says:

        1 Aug1 August 08:19

        Whst if you were flying together with your wife and baby, longhaul Christmas Eve overnight into Christmas Day and the seat map already showed only two pairs of seats together T-6 months?

        • Liz says:

          1 Aug1 August 08:46

          I would never pay the extra either to select seats – they get enough out of us with all the extra fees and charges! We don’t have any status. I log in 24 hrs before check in and go through the process of seat selection to see what is left after the bronze card holders have selected seats – i write down what is still showing, check on seat guru and write down my preferred seat options. Then at OLCI try and get those seats. As long as we can get seats together we are not bothered – just happy to be in CW and not economy. We are easily pleased. The first 2 times we flew in CW we managed to get upstairs on the 747 which spoiled us – other times we have been in the middle and had to sit with others but we are a sociable pair so always get chatting – except one time the man beside me put the shutter up! I would rather keep the extra money for spending – but that’s me being Scottish and canny with my money!!!

        • Genghis says:

          1 Aug1 August 09:25

          Free seat selection if you have a baby (<2 years), regardless of status!

        • BJ says:

          1 Aug1 August 09:32

          Learn something new every day 🙂

        • TGLoyalty says:

          1 Aug1 August 09:33

          IF you are all on the same booking then you wouldn’t be broken up. showing free seats is a red herring as status holders get seats next to them blocked etc until more seats are sold. are expertflyer showing them as allocated?

        • Doug M says:

          1 Aug1 August 10:12

          @Liz. Seatguru rubbish for BA, some of the maps are wrong, never mind the comments. Always thebasource com.

        • Liz says:

          1 Aug1 August 10:37

          @Doug M – I have taken note of thebasource site for future.Thanks.

        • BJ says:

          1 Aug1 August 11:41

          Thanks TGL, that explains why seats that were previously gone become available T-7 when I can select as bronze.

        • TripRep says:

          1 Aug1 August 13:05

          Liz – ditto.

          Completely agree with your mini rant 😀

          Rob – thanks for this tip, got the offer so signed up on my new card.
          ps sent you a semi-related query….

      • Boi says:

        1 Aug1 August 09:37

        I would refuse to pay too. Luckily we get free seat selection 5 days in advance as we travel with kids. Just checked our seats for flights on 5th. Great.

  • Nick_C says:

    1 Aug1 August 13:44

    I’m amazed you can select a good seat upstairs on the 747 without status. I’ve never been able to. But I’ve paid for 14A on the main deck a couple of times and been very happy with the seat.

    • Stuart says:

      1 Aug1 August 15:30

      The 4 seats in row 64 on the upper deck are open but other than a couple of singles nothing else. I do begrudge paying for seats but I am not the typical Head for Points reader. I have no status and this will be my first CW trip. This is a once in a lifetime trip where I am travelling first one way and back in Club. I will never do this trip again therefore to tick upstairs on a 747 off the bucket list I will have to pay to ensure this.

• The other Kevin says:

  1 Aug1 August 08:28

  Thanks for the heads-up. Just saw the email moments before booking a flight to EDI.

• xcalx says:

  1 Aug1 August 08:43

  Will Plat insurance be in place if flight booked with BA card. If not 1000 avios is not worth the gamble.

  • Rob says:

    1 Aug1 August 08:48

    Yes

    • xcalx says:

      1 Aug1 August 08:53

      Thanks, even the small travel stuff.

• Mike says:

  1 Aug1 August 09:13

  I wish Amex would tell me why I never get any offers on either of my cards

  • BJ says:

    1 Aug1 August 09:36

    None at all, ever? If so you need to contact them as something is wrong. Are you sure you are opted in to marketing/offers?

    • Jonathan says:

      1 Aug1 August 09:47

      I get a offers all the time on my cards, but they’re rarely at places I shop/spend in so they’re most of the time generally useless! They do all differ from card to card though

      • Prune says:

        1 Aug1 August 10:00

        I went through 6 months of no offers on my Amex cards. I made a formal complaint and then about 3 weeks later they started again on all cards.
        I had to make the formal complaint after multiple phone calls to Amex even after they investigated it with their marketing department. I’m assuming it was an IT issue.

      • Lumma says:

        1 Aug1 August 10:00

        Isn’t that the point? To give you a discount to try something new, rather than just give you money off something you would buy anyway.

        For example, if Sainsbury’s wanted to do an offer for £20 off £100, they’d ask AMEX to give the offer to people who usually spend heavily at one of the other supermarkets but rarely at Sainsbury’s

    • Mike says:

      1 Aug1 August 12:44

      No offers, ever. On my Platinum Charge card and BAPP card. I’ve called many times, they investigate and just come back with “offers are targetted and you haven’t qualified this time”. I applied for a gold rewards card and got offers, so mentioned that it must be something wrong with my account, so they then stopped all offers on that card too, so cancelled it.

  • Lumma says:

    1 Aug1 August 09:57

    This happened to me a while back. You need to contact them, after this they told me that the offers are random and there’s nothing they can do to change it and offers aren’t a part of your contract with them. But shortly after they started reappearing.

    I think the comments have mentioned “losing” your card and the replacement then recieving the offers in the past. AMEX are usually extremely quick at sending out replacement cards

    • meta says:

      1 Aug1 August 11:30

      I had that from July last year on my Plat. I got fed up making complaints to Amex. Once I even got £25 as compensation, but they said that offers are not part of T&C, so that was gesture of goodwill. After I haven’t had Amex Travel offer, I decided to close the card and after 10 days got the card again. I then created separate online account for each Amex (both main and supp). This seemed to work as with the next statement I started receiving offers. I think system can be confused if you have all cards on one account. Maybe two is ok, but I don’t want to risk it.

    • Genghis says:

      1 Aug1 August 13:13

      I’ve heard removing card from online and then readding works too.

      • meta says:

        1 Aug1 August 14:37

        I tried that before and it didn’t work. I think scraping an online account entirely and opening a new one will work. I didn’t realise at the time, but some people here suggested this will work.

  • Rooster says:

    2 Aug2 August 00:00

    Amex do block offers for some people, I had this before on 2 cards, never got an offer for years and they wouldn’t let me have different credit limits, in the end just closed them.

• Antonio says:

  1 Aug1 August 10:28

  I can’t see this offer… is it targeted?

  • Rob says:

    1 Aug1 August 11:01

    They told me everyone would have it.

    • Stoneman says:

      1 Aug1 August 11:11

      Not seeing it on mine or the wife’s card. Will refresh later on to see whether it triggers.

    • Mzungu says:

      1 Aug1 August 18:42

      Not on mine, or Mrs Mzungu’s cards 🙁

• Spaghetti Town says:

  1 Aug1 August 10:32

  OT: No bits but Amex related – do I get a bonus for adding a supp to a green?

  • Spaghetti Town says:

    1 Aug1 August 10:37

    Oh! we do have bits.

  • BJ says:

    1 Aug1 August 11:30

    Unfortunately not.

• Rob says:

  1 Aug1 August 11:00

  Interesting. Not surprising, though, because Amex has to hold assets on its balance sheet for a % of your credit limit. This is a regulatory requirement. It is unlikely to happen to charge card customers because there is no agreed credit limit to provide against.

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