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News in brief:

Save £50 on Addison Lee taxi bookings

Addison Lee has launched a new £50 discount offer which will be especially attractive to American Express Platinum cardholders.  This is because of one of the benefits of The Platinum Card is a £10 per month statement credit from Addison Lee.

You will receive £10 off the next five bookings you make via the Addison Lee app.

Rides must be for £15 or more.  The offer runs until 2nd February.  Promo code JAN10 must be used each time you book.  New and existing Addison Lee app users can take part.

Full details of the offer can be found on the Addison Lee website here.

If you are reading this on mobile you can download the Addison Lee app by clicking here.

Addison Lee discount code

Get 6,000 Avios with Tesco Bank pet insurance

Tesco Bank has launched a pet insurance offer.

You will earn 2,500 Clubcard points, which converts into 6,000 Avios or 6,250 Virgin Flying Club miles, when you take out a policy.

Full details are on the Tesco Bank website here.  The offer is open to all Clubcard holders and does not say it is targeted.

You need to keep the policy for 35 days to get the points.  The cheapest ‘Accident & Injury’ policies do not count.

The last date to apply is 31st March.

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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (July 2025)

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 Card

30,000 Avios and the famous annual Companion Voucher voucher Read our full review

British Airways American Express Credit Card

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 Credit Card

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 points worth 0.8 Avios per £1 on the FREE standard card and 1 Avios per £1 on the Pro card. Capital on Tap cards also have no FX fees.

Capital on Tap Visa

NO annual fee, NO FX fees and points worth 0.8 Avios per £1 Read our full review

Capital on Tap Pro Visa

10,500 points (=10,500 Avios) plus good benefits Read our full review

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

British Airways American Express Accelerating Business Card

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.

The American Express Business Platinum Card

50,000 points when you sign-up and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

The American Express Business Gold Card

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 (164)

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  • Pete says:
    10 Jan10 January 08:18

    Note the Addison Lee deal excludes airport drop off and collection. Though it works fine if you set the dropoff as Walrus Road ..

    • PJ says:
      10 Jan10 January 09:30

      Also works if you want to go specifically to the VAT Refunds Centre in T3.

      • Jonathan says:
        10 Jan10 January 11:45

        A pick up from the T5 Sofitel would get round this plus it dodges the £5 surcharge for Heathrow collections as they don’t need to go into the multi-storey. I find it less stressful as well.

  • Benilyn says:
    10 Jan10 January 09:04

    OT: 24 hours before Etihad check in, do the Economy space / extra expensive paid seats become free?

    • Benilyn says:
      10 Jan10 January 09:16

      Ok they now don’t anymore. When I flew in Dec-18, you could select the economy space seats for free 24hr before. Call centre telling me that even at check in, you can’t nab them for free.

    • marcw says:
      10 Jan10 January 10:39

      Who flies Etihad nowadays?

      • Rob says:
        10 Jan10 January 11:03

        We did 4 x Business Studio coming back from AUH in November …. was still pretty good!

        • Benilyn says:
          10 Jan10 January 11:37

          Well in Y where there is little differentiation it is comp priced, and also you get 2 nights free stopover in a comp 5* hotel w/ breakfast on the way there / way back home so can’t complain…

          • Lady London says:
            10 Jan10 January 12:25

            Even in Y, @Benilyn? Others like QR seem to do it only in J and sometimes only if asked.

          • Lady London says:
            10 Jan10 January 13:38

            Tx Benilyn. I’ll put that into the mix next time I’m going longhaul East.

          • Lady London says:
            10 Jan10 January 13:40

            And only a short taxi ride from Dubai, if anyone likes that kind of shopping.

      • Secret Squirrel says:
        10 Jan10 January 16:43

        People who don’t like BA! Lol..

  • Binks says:
    10 Jan10 January 09:23

    Just bought my ticket!!! Looking forward to going to my first hfp party / get together!

  • lebron 23 says:
    10 Jan10 January 10:25

    tickets now sold out

  • Dev says:
    10 Jan10 January 11:14

    Nothing on my Platinum card, but I have the £50 off for £200 spend on my legacy gold card.

  • Boi says:
    10 Jan10 January 11:20

    OT: anyone with 20K upgrade to platinum link?

    • Boi says:
      10 Jan10 January 11:59

      Thanks

    • Secret Squirrel says:
      10 Jan10 January 16:39

      Can this link be used from Green Amex (Charge Card) and still get the big bonus on 4k spend if you hold another Amex like a BA Blue card?

      • Shoestring says:
        10 Jan10 January 18:04

        the 20K is for an upgrade to Plat, so yes – irrelevant which other cards you hold

  • Oliv says:
    10 Jan10 January 11:24

    OT – if I book myself on HBO and another passenger on an RFS, can I then get BA to link the bookings? As I am Silver, in that case will I be able to select the seats for both passengers for free?

    • Jonathan says:
      10 Jan10 January 11:34

      No. You can only link separate bookings for free seat selection as a Gold and even Golds don’t then get free seat selection if the other passenger is HBO.

      • TGLoyalty says:
        10 Jan10 January 12:54

        even has a gold I would have thought you have to be on the same type of ticket.

        *linkin* as gold still means phoning to change you seat in my limited experience. I always booked together only time i did it on separate bookings was to cash in on the £200 off AMEX deal last year.

        • Shoestring says:
          10 Jan10 January 18:08

          families can do it – and I have successfully done it several times, separate bookings eg 4 Avios RFS tickets + 1 cash ticket – and they sat us all together – kids were much younger though so maybe that helped

          probably the point is: the agent *can* do it but often won’t if you don’t qualify through status – but just ask nicely with a good reason (young kids) and they’ll probably help you out

          • Oliv says:
            10 Jan10 January 18:21

            Thanks, the bookings will actually be for 2 adults and 2 kids, so that should work

  • Paul R says:
    10 Jan10 January 12:08

    OT – Hi All. Long-time lurker, first time poster. I have a forthcoming economy booking from IST to MLE with Turkish Airlines. Can anyone offer any advice on the best way to upgrade the booking, either using cash or Miles & Smiles points?

    • Lady London says:
      10 Jan10 January 13:35

      TK is a bit of a special interest so far as most uk flyers are concerned so I’d suggest you take a look at flyertalk which may well have the answer.

    • ankomonkey says:
      10 Jan10 January 16:15

      I’m not an expert, but have redeemed short haul J out of IST a few times. I think you can upgrade using Miles & Smiles points as long as there is redemption availability. There would likely be an additional cash charge to pay too. Log in and search for redemption seats on your flight.

      ISTFlyer on FT knows everything so will be able to accurately advise.

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