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New BA Amex offer – get 3,000 bonus Avios for £300 of British Airways spend on your card

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A good new offer should be showing on your British Airways or British Airways Premium Plus American Express card.

If you spend £300 or more at ba.com between registration and 16th February, you will receive 3,000 bonus Avios.

For clarity, this bonus comes from American Express, not British Airways.  The bonus Avios will be added to the ‘pending Avios’ showing on your online American Express statement and will be transferred over as part of the monthly sweep into your British Airways Executive Club account.

The offer is limited to the first 50,000 people to register.  This is quite a large number, clearly, but there are a lot of cards out there and I imagine BA or Amex will do an email over the next few days.  I recommend you register now, just in case.

I don’t know if the offer itself is targeted or if all BA Amex cardholders have it.

You need to visit the American Express website here, log in and navigate to the statement page for your British Airways American Express card.  The promotion should show under the ‘Offers’ tab at the bottom of the screeen.  It should also be possible to register via the ‘Offers’ section of the American Express app.

1000 Avios with £100 British Airways American Express spending

Here is the small print – don’t get caught out:

Your transaction needs to be made at ba.com.  There is no mention of transactions booked via the call centre counting.

You can only earn the bonus once although supplementary cards would be OK if the deal appeared on the ‘Offers’ page for that card.

Your qualifying spend needs to be in Pounds.  If you book a flight which starts outside the UK, it is likely that it will not be priced in Sterling and so will not qualify for the bonus.

Your payment must be made directly with your American Express card.  You cannot use an aggregator such as PayPal, which recharges a transaction to your BA Amex.  You CAN use Apple Pay or similar.

Whilst not mentioned in the small print, historically this has been a cumulative offer so the £300 does not need to be spent in a single transaction.  This makes sense, because if you buy multiple tickets from British Airways in one booking, each person is charged individually to your American Express statement.

For clarity, if you buy Avios via this page of ba.com, it will NOT trigger the bonus.  ‘Buy Avios’ transactions are handled by an intermediary called points.com, and it is points.com that appears on your credit card statement.

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You can see our full directory of all UK cards which earn airline or hotel points here. Here are the best of the other deals currently available.

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Earning miles and points from small business cards

If you are a sole trader or run a small company, you may also want to check out these offers:

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Comments (164)

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  • Jack says:
    21 Jan21 January 08:56

    I haven’t had any offers on my cards come through recently. Right now I have one offer across 3 my cards, anyone know if there’s a way to change this?

    • ThinkSquare says:
      21 Jan21 January 09:35

      That’s bizarre. There are always about 50 offers showing on my card (even if most are completely useless to me). Perhaps you should speak to Amex?

      I have the BA offer. Sadly I paid off a £3k holiday last week 🙁

    • Lumma says:
      21 Jan21 January 11:46

      Happened to me a while back. Complained to AMEX, said there’s nothing they can do as the offers aren’t a guaranteed benefit of card membership. They did start appearing again shortly after, so maybe worthwhile giving them a shout

  • Chrish says:
    21 Jan21 January 08:56

    Hi, All last year i used a similar Offer (£100 spend) but i spent through BA Shopping and it triggered the offer no prob

  • TGLoyalty says:
    21 Jan21 January 08:58

    I must’ve just snuck through on the 7/1 posted 8/1.

  • Craig says:
    21 Jan21 January 09:00

    I have a BA Holidays booking (Flight + Hotel) that I’ve only paid the deposit so far. If I was to spend an extra £300 against the remaining balance does anyone know if this will trigger the bonus?

    • Shoestring says:
      21 Jan21 January 09:01

      yes / see thread

      • Craig says:
        21 Jan21 January 09:08

        Ok many thanks – I saw the comments that Hotel + Car + Flights count however as mine is already an existing booking I didn’t know if it would still be valid by paying off an additional £300 on the remaining balance?

        • Anna says:
          21 Jan21 January 10:41

          Yes, I now tend to wait for an offer like this before paying off any booking in full!

  • E says:
    21 Jan21 January 09:06

    Thanks for that update. Saves me ringing them for now as I’m in the same position.

  • chris1922 says:
    21 Jan21 January 09:06

    Dammit ! I just paid £600 car hire on BA last week ! : (

    No other BA bookings in the near future.

  • sloth says:
    21 Jan21 January 09:14

    O/T – First Direct Mortgages…does anyone have any experience of paying either their monthly required payment and/or any overpayment via debit card? thanks

    • Anna says:
      21 Jan21 January 10:43

      FD only accept mortgage payments from a UK bank account, I have tried this! It’s a pain as we have £80k outstanding mortgage with them but the interest rate is so low it’s not worth moving it. If you have any finance with Creation, however, they seem to accept any (non-Amex) form of repayment.

      • guesswho2000 says:
        21 Jan21 January 11:30

        Shh

        • Boi says:
          21 Jan21 January 13:39

          On that note we plan to relay our outstanding mortgage end of this month (yipeee- mortgage free before 45). It’s around 23K- anyway of earning points?
          It’s with Santander…. I have most of the major credit cards

          • Anuj says:
            22 Jan22 January 00:30

            I think the only thing you can do is sign up to something non amex like the Virgin Atlantic card (but you’ll be limited to your monthly credit limit) or use the trick of one of those cards that let you top up in the PO using a Amex card, but this has to be done at a max of £200 a month or they will close your account afaik.

  • meta says:
    21 Jan21 January 09:27

    Mine were a week late this month, but arrived this morning.

    • RussellH says:
      21 Jan21 January 10:40

      Same for me from my plain blue BA Amex. “Transferred” Mon 13 Jan, arrived today Tue 21 Jan.

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