Should you trigger your next British Airways American Express 2-4-1 voucher early?

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• Polly says:

  5 Dec5 December 05:30

  Yes, busy prepaying some bills BT, Affinity, EE x2, Octopus, the latter a bit risky! on the BA Amex to get ours issued before Dec 31st. S sadly not our council tax! Plus some shop small, restaurants, stamps etc once we get back Tuesday, we hope! Will upgrade next week or so. Useful to have the extra 6 months validity.
  Have a lot of Morrison’s GCs to use up too…all this spending has me in a tizzy, that, tests, and flight changes. 1st world problems we know….

• Ian says:

  5 Dec5 December 06:27

  We have 6 between us and most of them will just expire.

  Vary rarely do I find an opportunity to use them.

  I might trigger another, but with very few seats appearing for my routes I prefer to pay cash.

  Not even sure that seatspy shows the new availability based on the new vouchers, so perhaps more reward seats actually exist? No idea.

• Andrew says:

  5 Dec5 December 07:34

  Best not to bother and just spend your Avios via nectar.

  • BSI1978 says:

    5 Dec5 December 07:40

    Ha!

    If that ever becomes an option again!

    (I’m largely being facetious here but BA conveniently switching this off just before the festive period grates somewhat…..)

    • Andrew says:

      5 Dec5 December 08:09

      Haha indeed! Very convenient that it’s not available in the month of the year when people do the most retail shopping and the fewest travel bookings!

      • Freddy says:

        5 Dec5 December 09:49

        I’m gonna keep mine in BA till September when the 241 expire. Maybe travel rules improve and availability turns up for somewhere nice to go but if not I’ll be a regular shopper at Sainsbury’s for a while

• Mark says:

  5 Dec5 December 07:59

  If you are a regular user of Amazon, one option is to pre-load your account with Amazon credit to trigger the 241 bonus and then spend the credit through next year

• A says:

  5 Dec5 December 07:59

  So BA have now resolved the issue for new 2-4-1’s, they definitely get the +6m on new vouchers?

  • Cheryl D says:

    5 Dec5 December 08:36

    I triggered my voucher yesterday.,This morning I received a confirmation email from BA that clearly states it’s valid for 24 months. No mention of an extension. An extract from the email below !
    ‘You’ve got 24 months to go
    Your voucher is valid for the next 24 months, so make sure you book and travel before then. Before you know it, it’ll be time for both of you to start packing’

    Voucher is not showing in App yet for me to double check expiry date but can’t see why they wouldn’t have included details of extension in notification email.

    • John H says:

      5 Dec5 December 09:04

      I also triggered my voucher last week and, like you, received the email from BA stating it’s valid for 24 months – no mention of a 6 month extension.

      I read the original article on HfP but cannot find mention of a 6 month extension anywhere on BA – does anyone have a link they can post?

      • Rob says:

        5 Dec5 December 09:59

        It will be manually corrected.

        • Cheryl D says:

          5 Dec5 December 13:12

          Thanks Rob

      • John H says:

        5 Dec5 December 10:06

        The app is now showing the 6 month extension until June 2024

    • Carol says:

      5 Dec5 December 09:18

      I triggered mine on Monday and it now shows in the app as valid until May 2024. Hopefully yours will too.

  • Rob says:

    5 Dec5 December 10:06

    All those showing as 24 months after the IT upgrade are now extended, yes.

    • gordon says:

      5 Dec5 December 11:27

      Correct all sorted now.Our voucher was almost earned anyway without the rush to to spend and we triggered it in November so this timing worked out perfectly for us.

• John D says:

  5 Dec5 December 08:20

  BA are holding £1200 of tax etc plus a companion voucher for two cancelled tickets to Singapore. After a battle they returned 120,000 Avios to my account but
  It retained the money as a forward flight voucher and the companion voucher. My problem is I do not know the date of expiry of this which I think is March next year. I tried to ring the silver line to book a flight as it cannot be done on line. After 1 hour hanging on, I assume at 7p a minute, I had a recorded voice saying hang up and was cut off. To book the flight I wanted I had to use another companion ticket and pay the tax etc. with cash. How do I get access to the companion voucher and my £1200? II have made a complaint in writing but get no reply. Does TLFP or other members have any unlisted access telephone numbers or e mail contacts

  • JDB says:

    5 Dec5 December 09:15

    You can see the expiry date of all your companion vouchers (including those being used in a booking) in your BA Exec account – log in on desktop or iPad, click on your name at the top and scroll down to ‘My e-vouchers’ and ‘more voucher information’.

  • Alex says:

    5 Dec5 December 09:24

    They have phone numbers that should be included in your usual allowances, starting with 03 normally, so won’t cost 7p a minute.

  • Rob says:

    5 Dec5 December 10:04

    All vouchers are extended to 9/23.

    Vouchers not visible online. Call BA to rebook and they can see it on your account.

• BuildBackBetter says:

  5 Dec5 December 08:31

  Trigger the voucher by Dec 2021, save annual fee, cancel and start 2 year wait early vs trigger the voucher in Sep 2022 for the longest expiry date. Decision time.

• Mark says:

  5 Dec5 December 08:39

  “Upgraded” blue to black last week, as I have done many times before. Except this time I’ve ended up with both cards (which shouldn’t be possible) and Amex seem in a bit of a tail spin about how to sort it out.

  To make matters worse, despite me asking them to put a block on the blue card to make sure I didn’t trigger a 241 from it, and they assured me they had, a Netflix subscription went through yesterday and triggered the damn thing.

  Amex’s legendary customer service seem to have slipped up, but they assure me they will sort this all out in the background…I’m not so sure this time…

  (Yes I know, should have updated Netflix to my new card details…but still…none of this should have happened on the Amex end of it)

  Anyone else experienced this? (Getting 2 Ba cards simultaneously?)

  • Cheryl D says:

    5 Dec5 December 08:50

    The blue card continues to work simultaneously. I had pre authorised online shopping orders a month in advance when I upgraded blue to black and
    ( lazily) just continued to use the blue pin until they’d all been delivered. Payments still showing on black card statements and at 1.5 Avios.

  • Alastair Actually says:

    5 Dec5 December 09:40

    I too applied last week for a black card and have ended up with both a blue and a black card – not had the time to ring up yet. At least I only have c9,200 spend this year, but was hoping to get to 10k this month.

    Saw yesterday someone recommending to ring during UK office hours to get a UK based agent so I might do that tomorrow.

    • Alastair Actually says:

      6 Dec6 December 10:27

      Called on Monday morning and got it sorted out – unwanted black card cancelled and blue card upgraded to black.

      The telephone agent said that in order to upgrade a blue card to a black one you should speak to an agent on the phone or via web chat – and not try to do it online as I had done.

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