Save on flights and hotels with a new £50 American Express Travel cashback credit

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• Paul says:

  27 Apr27 April 07:58

  Whilst I’ve always been pretty happy with Amex Travel and used them a fair bit over the years, just to add some balance on pandemic experiences: last year I had a fully flex ticket booked with Amex Travel which I attempted to cancel ahead of the flight date, fully in accordance with the ticket conditions. They claimed I was cancelling due to COVID (OK, I was, but that doesn’t change the fact I was entitled to do so per the ticket conditions I’d booked) and faced no end of problems getting them to acknowledge the fare conditions I’d booked and not lump me into ‘we’ll have to wait and see if the flight operates, and then maybe offer credit’ category. I ended up successfully upholding a dispute against the payment (also Amex, so a dispute against themselves…) to get my money back.

• MJ says:

  27 Apr27 April 08:08

  I’ve looked at some Euro flights and I’ve noticed they are more expensive (+£10 per one-way pp) vs paying the airline directly. So for a couple doing a one-leg journey the saving is really only £30.

  • IanM says:

    27 Apr27 April 09:25

    Yes I’ve noticed that AMEX travel were more expensive in the past, more than cancelling out any offer

    • Aston100 says:

      27 Apr27 April 10:17

      I’ve found them to be a bit more expensive than going directly to the airlines themselves.

• Jordan D says:

  27 Apr27 April 08:43

  A shame it isn’t the 200 on 600 saving, but will take it nonetheless!

• Braiden says:

  27 Apr27 April 09:42

  A shame this isn’t the usual 600/200 offer.

• George K says:

  27 Apr27 April 10:43

  I don’t believe Amex Travel offers have been extended to non-MR cards in the past, so it’s not a surprise that Bonvoy/BA cards wouldn’t show this. In fact, I think that if you only have a BA card for example, you don’t have access to Amex Travel (but I could be mistaken).

  Two things about booking with Amex Travel.
  1) They are a very good Travel Agent, and they won’t ignore you if something goes wrong with your booking. They are good on refunds and dealing with problems, and can always get through to speak to someone. Would always be happy to book with them

  2) They ARE sometimes showing a more expensive plane fares online. What’s weird is that this sometimes drops down to the same rate as with booking direct, but only when you reach the final booking/payment stage (not when you’re browsing the results). You basically get a prompt saying ‘good news! we’ve found an even cheaper rate’! If the price doesn’t fix itself, it’s worth calling and complaining. I had a few BA flights showing as £20-30 more expensive with Amex Travel, but had the 600/200 offer to redeem so called them and asked them to look into it. The price was fixed within a week and thankfully it hadn’t gone up in the meantime.

• Dubs says:

  27 Apr27 April 10:54

  Cumulative spend does count as per t&c on email sent out that I just received.

  Terms and Conditions

  1. Statement Credit Offer

  Only one £50 statement credit per Card, when you cumulatively spend £200 or more on pre-paid accommodation, flights or car hire through American Express Travel at americanexpress.co.uk/travel. Book by 31 May 2021. Offer excludes Fine Hotels + Resorts, The Hotel Collection and cruise bookings. Limited to first 30,000 Cardmembers to save this offer.

  • Rob says:

    27 Apr27 April 11:05

    It usually is cumulative because Amex Travel tends to charge per person anyway. If you book flights for 2 people for £200 it is likely to go through your statement as £100 and then another £100 even though you only made 1 x £200 payment.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    27 Apr27 April 14:42

    99% of the time these T&Cs are copy paste rubbish

• VINZ says:

  27 Apr27 April 11:47

  I only have it on my Vitality Amex

• Blenz101 says:

  27 Apr27 April 12:22

  Advertised on the email as valid on U.K. travel

  • meta says:

    27 Apr27 April 12:38

    No, it’s not. They are just advertising of possibility to use it on UK escapes. There is a footnote which then goes to say only valid for context on Amex Travel UK. But Amex Travel UK has global content.

    They just don’t want to be it obvious they are encouraging travel outside the UK when the ban is still in place.

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