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Register now: Amex offering bonus Avios to BA Premium Plus holders

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American Express has launched a bonus Avios offer for British Airways American Express cardholders.

It is restricted to 80,000 cardholders so I recommend that you register now before Amex emails everyone about it.

This is how it works:

  • You receive 2 bonus Avios for every £1 you spend
  • This is on top of your 1.5 Avios per £1, or 3 Avios per £1 for ba.com spending
  • The bonus is capped at 4,000 Avios, representing £2,000 of spending
  • The promotion ends on 15th June
  • Spending by supplementary cardholders does not count – this is not mentioned made clear online

To register, go to the American Express website here, log in to your British Airways Premium Plus account and look in your offers section.


Want to earn more points from credit cards? – April 2024 update

If you are looking to apply for a new credit card, here are our top recommendations based on the current 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

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.

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

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

Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard

15,000 bonus points and 1.5 points for every £1 you spend Read our full review

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:

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

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

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

Huge 30,000 points bonus until 12th May 2024 Read our full review

For a non-American Express option, we also recommend the Barclaycard Select Cashback card for sole traders and small businesses. It is FREE and you receive 1% cashback on your spending.

Barclaycard Select Cashback Business Credit Card

1% cashback uncapped* on all your business spending (T&C apply) Read our full review

Comments (99)

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  • Dannyrado says:

    OT. With the virgin reward+ MasterCard is it an upgrade voucher per £10k spend, or one a year?

  • Mouse says:

    Thanks Rob!

  • max28 says:

    Is the 6,000 bonus avios offer when you upgrade from BA Amex to BAPP still live?

    • GS says:

      Apparently not – I asked customer services this question recently. Although always a guessing game if they actually know that or not.

  • Freddy says:

    Not bad, I’m seeing it as an extra £40 avios rebate on my normal spending. However the yearly fee on this card seems increasingly difficult to justify unless travel suddenly opens up

  • Ross M says:

    Talking of being badly written, no excuse for the TYPO🙄😂

  • Andrew says:

    The offer wording has been updated on the app now – 2 additional Avios for every £1 up to a maximum of 4000 Avios.

  • Rh says:

    I just registered now and it still let me at this time!

  • Alan says:

    Hi everyone, I’ve booked LHR-LAX in April by BA 241 voucher when BA promoted 50% off avios booking couple months ago. My flight has been cancelled by BA, it is still difficult for us to enter America now, hence I’m thinking to change my flight to later this year, but when I log in “Manage my booking” – “Rebook”, BA shows no availability for entire 2021, obviously that’s not true. I have to call their agent, do you guys know whether I can rebook for free (no additional avios, because BA has cancelled my flight), or I should be prepared to pay back further 50% avios? Thank you.

    • Chris says:

      I think if it’s more than a year after the original booking you’ll have to pay the extra Avios.

    • Emad says:

      My thoughts are that since BA cancelled the flight, you are entitled to a voucher which effectively freezes your ticket with the exact same conditions.
      This maybe helpful
      https://www.headforpoints.com/2021/02/08/how-to-extend-british-airways-241-voucher/

    • Sam G says:

      There is a long thread on Flyertalk, it’s been very variable. If you call in you might get to move it to 1 year from the date you booked – so say September time. But there are some reports the agents wanted more Avios to go past 30th June. You shouldn’t need Avios availability on the dates you wanted since BA cancelled the flights

      Call in and see how you go!

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