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British Airways to launch a partnership with Brazilian airline GOL?

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According to Brazilian newspaper Globo, British Airways and GOL have agreed a frequent flyer partnership.

The article states that it is only for frequent flyer redemption and not earning. This seems highly unlikely, so I suspect that what we will actually see is a full codeshare combined with frequent flyer earn and burn benefits.

This is a sensible move for British Airways. Since LATAM left the oneworld alliance earlier this year, British Airways lost some connectivity options in South America.

GOL has a 40% share of the domestic market in Brazil. It has hubs in both Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro which would allow connections to and from British Airways services.

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There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

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Comments (66)

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  • Peter S says:
    2 Dec2 December 05:54

    Morning all! Alas, neither the “Spend £100, receive 1500 Avios” nor the “£20 off an £80+ spend at Fenwick and Bentalls department stores, expiring 31st December” offer are on my BA Amex Premium Plus. Strange as usually the offers come through with no problem. Are they targeted like the Harrods £100 one? Any thoughts?

    • Harry T says:
      2 Dec2 December 06:12

      All Amex offers are targeted, unless explicitly offered to all cardholders (I’m thinking of the Platinum amex £100 off at certain retailers off).

    • Simon says:
      2 Dec2 December 07:37

      I don’t have them either, in fact I have a total of 4 offers across platinum, BA PP and Marriott cards

  • MD says:
    2 Dec2 December 06:26

    These “saved” 747s, anyone have a rough idea what BA are selling them for? Idle curiosity – I’m not in the market for one!

    • Andrew says:
      2 Dec2 December 06:45

      Donated I would imagine – they are a massive sitting advert for BA for years to come.

    • Richard M says:
      2 Dec2 December 07:44

      Nor me. Garden not quite big enough.

      • Bagoly says:
        2 Dec2 December 09:13

        Garden big enough.
        But even if we wanted to cut down the trees, I don’t think hosting a 747 would be a good enough reason to get permission to do so.

  • William Kerr says:
    2 Dec2 December 06:31

    no offers on either my free BA Amex or Rewards as at 06.30

  • Tyra says:
    2 Dec2 December 06:56

    How is Amex targeting the offers? I wasn’t targeted for the Harrods offer or the ones mentioned in this article and I have 3 cards with them. Calling up doesn’t help anymore, as they can no longer add offers straight away. They have to send the request to the “back office”, which is pretty much a black hole for queries.

    • BuildTheWall says:
      2 Dec2 December 07:16

      Try to put a variety of spending on your Amex card and perhaps use it as your daily spending card.

      • BuildTheWall says:
        2 Dec2 December 10:37

        Is that on Plat or Gold cards? Offers with big discounts are usually offered to these customers as they are either spending a lot or have paid a large fee – therefore can spend a lot. Even Marriott and BAPP cards have got some decent offers recently.

        • Alex Sm says:
          2 Dec2 December 13:24

          I had a Black BA card until recently, now downgraded to the Blue one

  • Stu p says:
    2 Dec2 December 07:11

    Radisson hotels also appeared for me, spend £150 get £50 back.

  • Andrew says:
    2 Dec2 December 07:17

    I wonder if the Selfridges offer which still says online only will work instore now

    • Harry T says:
      2 Dec2 December 07:48

      I was expecting them to add an in-store option. Maybe it will take a day or two.

  • vol says:
    2 Dec2 December 07:23

    Got “Spend £100 get 500 Avios” which seems to be a different variation.

    Got the Fenwick…

    Seem to have this too: spend £500 at Riwola, get 7000 MR points..

  • FS says:
    2 Dec2 December 07:37

    Thanks for the heads up. I had the £100 spend anywhere for 1500 Avios. 😁

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