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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.

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

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.

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 (169)

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  • Boi says:
    10 Jan10 January 12:41

    For those with 3 cats in the house did you put that in (insured each separately by different members of household)

    • Shoestring says:
      10 Jan10 January 14:08

      yes

    • Allycat says:
      10 Jan10 January 14:09

      Four cats, four applications, four cat names, four different owners / clubcard account holders, all indicated that there were 4 pets in the household but each application only for one cat. All came in around the £3.50 mark (take the max £200 excess). All DDs from same bank account which could be a risk … we shall see

  • Grant says:
    10 Jan10 January 12:43

    Apologies, I know this come up a lot, but does anyone have a UK number for Bonvoy points queries. I promise to save it this time!

    Thanks

  • Flying Misfit says:
    10 Jan10 January 12:46

    OT: HSBC avios bonus conversion

    Just as a data point, I did a batch on Wednesday with the website still showing the ad for the bonus despite date passing. Conversion points hit BA account today and no bonus posted.

  • Boi says:
    10 Jan10 January 12:56

    Also which policy qualifies:
    1. short-term treatments
    2. short-term and ongoing treatments

  • aDifferentSimon says:
    10 Jan10 January 13:54

    My companion voucher has arrived with 12 months expiry rather than 24. It triggered on an upgrade to the paid card. I’m sure I’ve seen in the comments this has happened to others. What’s people experiences? Thanks in advance.

    • TGLoyalty says:
      10 Jan10 January 18:28

      Have to phone Amex.

      The advice is to upgrade before you hit £10k spend because once it’s after you pretty much always have expiry date issues.

  • BJ says:
    10 Jan10 January 15:19

    OT: IIRC somebody once posted best site for doing energy comparisons. Could somebody please remind me which it was?

    • BJ says:
      10 Jan10 January 15:51

      Thanks Harry, that’s the one I couldn’t remember.

      • mark2 says:
        10 Jan10 January 17:28

        But beware! Ofgem rules makes them all assume that at the end of the current fixed period you will go onto their (expensive) standard variable rate. This means that they may recommend that you change to a tariff which is more expensive. You need to check the unit rates.

        • Shoestring says:
          10 Jan10 January 17:32

          and standing charges – plus I was checking a cheaper Avro tariff compared to my existing Avro one, yesterday – hellishly difficult if you don’t have a good idea of gas & elec usage in KWH (ie estimate of £££s isn’t good enough)

        • BJ says:
          10 Jan10 January 23:13

          Yes, thanks guys, was aware of both. I found that CAB gave same results as CEC. Looks like it will be E.on via Simply Switch and T C B. Possibly an extra helping thanks to advice from @Genghis if they start harassing me about smart meters.

  • r* says:
    10 Jan10 January 15:44

    For the pet insurance, I wasnt prompted for clubcard number, anyone know if it will have automatically taken it from name/address?

    • Shoestring says:
      10 Jan10 January 16:15

      should do – but take a screenshot of the offer for possible future use

    • Joe Scheinkonig says:
      22 Jan22 January 20:26

      i wasn’t either. did this get resolved?

      • Shoestring says:
        22 Jan22 January 20:31

        people won’t know yet, they have to wait until the 2500 Clubcard points start getting reported by others as dropping into accounts

        if you’re nervous you could always spend a few minutes on the phone

  • Neil Donoghue says:
    10 Jan10 January 16:01

    I had to go with Raffles the cat! I am now a keen pet lover with 4 new cats who all live in my house. I am hoping to take them all on a nice RFS to Europe during the summer if I get paid out!

    • Russ says:
      10 Jan10 January 17:23

      I wouldn’t worry about it as I have a feeling the cats won’t be around for very long. Them pesky roads you know….

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