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Your 500 Avios from Nectar should have posted

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If you took part in the Avios / Nectar launch promotion, take a look at your British Airways Executive Club account.

Avios was offering a bonus of 500 points if you transferred 1,600 Nectar points into Avios. These have now arrived, at least for me.

You will NOT receive the bonus if you moved 1,000 Avios to Nectar and immediately moved them back again. I’m surprised to see that BA’s IT was up to spotting that, but it did.

Nectar Avios light

Triggering this bonus also triggered double base Nectar points on your shopping at Sainsbury’s up to 19th April. These points are not meant to arrive until 28 days after the end of the offer, so you should expect them in mid May.

If you are not up to speed with the new Avios / Nectar partnership, we have created a new HfP category for the articles. You can see them all by clicking here or by selecting ‘Sainsbury’s and Nectar’ from the categories menu which appears on every article page in the right-hand sidebar on the desktop site.

Core reference articles include:

Online transfers between Avios and Nectar remain suspended whilst site security, including 2FA, is beefed up.

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 (100)

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  • Daniel says:
    12 Mar12 March 03:32

    The 10% off at Morrisons on a spend of over £30 goes very well with the NHS staff discount at Morrisons too. Sure to keep me shopping there for the moment, despite the Avios possibilities from Sainsbury’s now.

    • Tom says:
      12 Mar12 March 04:27

      Santander is 15% off on my cards

      • stevenhp1987 says:
        12 Mar12 March 13:58

        I never get any useful offers on my Santander account…

        I assume it’s because I never use my Debit Card for anything.

    • Harry T says:
      12 Mar12 March 10:20

      Sainsbury’s nectar offers are rubbish for me at the moment too. I think it’s very admirable that Morrison’s continues to offer a decent MHS discount. It’s still a shame it doesn’t work on gift cards 😂

    • Pablo says:
      12 Mar12 March 10:43

      10% off on Virgin CC, £30+ spend

  • Kevin says:
    12 Mar12 March 05:36

    I haven’t received the 500 Avios bonus yet, and definitely moved 1600 nectar points. I wonder if they are doing it in batches?

    • AJA says:
      12 Mar12 March 08:51

      Did you do it on or after 25 Jan? If you did it on 24 Jan you did it too soon. Or did you do it on 24 Jan and then try again on or after 25 Jan? Also did you subsequently transfer Avios back to Nectar? The T&Cs said it was payable on the first transfer of Avios and also reversals of the initial transfer would invalidate the 500 Avios bonus.

    • Kevin says:
      12 Mar12 March 08:53

      Ignore that they have now posted.

  • Sue says:
    12 Mar12 March 06:43

    Can someone fill me in please. How does stocking up on Amazon gift Garda link to cash back offers from other stores.

    • Chas says:
      12 Mar12 March 06:57

      You buy the (physical) gift cards from Morrison’s. A £100 voucher will only cost you £90 with the 10% offer. Add it to your Amazon account when you get home, and you have £100 of spend.

      • Paul says:
        12 Mar12 March 07:52

        Or you buy a £100 gift card from Morrison’s, find out it’s not been activated at the till and waste hours trying to sort the mess out!

      • TGLoyalty says:
        12 Mar12 March 17:32

        But you can use Amex directly on Amazon so the Amex point isn’t part of the equation

        More points are …

    • Andrew says:
      12 Mar12 March 06:59

      So, say you had registered for the various schemes and agreed to share your shopping data.

      You go into a participating retailer and make any purchase.

      The marketing companies scour the data connected to your card number and reward you with a % of your purchase.

      So, the key discounts for me at the moment as beloved NHS staff mean I could go into a leading supermarket and buy £100 of groceries and a £100 Amazon card.

      I’d get 10% discount on my groceries at the till, so my bill would be £190.

      Then I’d get up to. £19 back from Santander, £19 back from Airtime, £19 back from PAW, and 700 Virgin Red points.

      It’s unlikely that all the additional rewards will work, but the more the merrier if they do.

      • Jonathan says:
        12 Mar12 March 07:22

        I’m not familiar with PAW but surely they plus Airtime & Virgin all rely on a tracking link to your credit card & therefore like the online rebate sites you can only get 1 bite of the cherry?

        • Andrew says:
          12 Mar12 March 08:20

          It’s flakey.

          Sometimes layers work, sometimes they don’t. I’ve definitely had Virgin, AirTime and Paw (I like the other Andrew’sTurks that Twerk) all trigger on the same transaction before though.

      • aDifferentSimon says:
        12 Mar12 March 09:46

        its 1520 red points isn’t it? Or are assuming the gift cards will not get points?

      • Harry T says:
        12 Mar12 March 10:24

        @Andrew
        I’ve only just realised that PAW is apparently open to anyone who works for the NHS.

  • Alan says:
    12 Mar12 March 06:54

    No Morrisons offer here, sadly, but Avios have posted.

  • Peter says:
    12 Mar12 March 06:56

    Likewise no Morrisons offer here. But points have posted

  • Memesweeper says:
    12 Mar12 March 06:57

    “ The obvious thing to do here is to stock up on giftcards…”

    No, the obvious thing to do is buy a load of groceries. The HfPer thing to do is buy a pile of gift cards alongside one bar of chocolate 🙂

  • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:
    12 Mar12 March 06:59

    I also have 10% at Morrisons on my Virgin Atlantic card until 24/03. Useful if you want to combine with the 10% offer through the website that rhymes with Turks that twerk, which is Mastercard/Visa only.

    • avstar says:
      12 Mar12 March 09:17

      Virgin T&C – customers wont earn on gift vouchers

      • Eugene says:
        12 Mar12 March 09:35

        Worth a go tho. I had 13,000 post from the November round

      • Andrew says:
        12 Mar12 March 10:07

        Exactly. You won’t earn if you pay part of your shopping bill with gift vouchers.

        The bit you pay with your credit card will.

  • Andrew says:
    12 Mar12 March 07:06

    Any news on the Avios to nectar transfer tool being fixed?

    • DAJ says:
      12 Mar12 March 07:45

      I was talking to a BA agent the other day and they had a deadline of around next week to get this in place. We will see though!

    • Rob says:
      12 Mar12 March 09:37

      No

    • john says:
      12 Mar12 March 14:11

      Is this a one-way broken-ness as I just transferred from Nectar to Avios successfully?

      You’re a conversion success story!
      Conversion direction:
      Nectar to Avios
      Amount converted:
      80000 Nectar points

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