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Earlier in the year, IAG Loyalty relaunched the British Airways Prepaid Mastercard. If you took out this card, IAG Loyalty is keen to hear your thoughts.

IAG Loyalty is currently running research into the user experience of the card and needs cardholders to take part. This research is also open to people who have had the card but recently cancelled it.

British Airways Prepaid Mastercard research

Participants in the research will need to take part in a virtual feedback session for 30 minutes, held via Zoom between Tuesday 25th October –  Tuesday 1st November between the hours of 10.30am – 5.30pm (BST/GMT). In return they will get $30 paid into their Paypal account.

If you hold or have held the card recently and are interested in giving your feedback, this is a good opportunity to do so. Please note there are very limited places and it will be on a first come, first served basis. We will update this article once all the places are taken.

To take part the feedback sessions, please sign up to IAG Loyalty’s user testing platform using this link here. Once signed up, you’ll be able to choose a time slot and if none are available it will mean the places have all been taken. Thank you in advance for your help.

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.

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

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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 (73)

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  • Jonathan Bilmen says:
    25 Oct25 October 07:33

    Just went to my Amex cards and all my offers have been removed (except the saved ones). Same for my wife’s too. Anyone else experience this?

    Also – echo above re: user testing. Nothing offered when I signed up

  • bm109 says:
    25 Oct25 October 07:38

    No slots available for prepaid BA card at 0730. What a waste of time. I still don’t have my sign-up Avios bonus from them yet, does anyone else? Perhaps HFP could find out what’s going on here please?

  • Chas says:
    25 Oct25 October 07:52

    I don’t have my initial sign-up, or the HfP enhanced element either. I’ve spent my £500, so only have the Avios from those transactions. Im just hanging around to receive those, then the card will go, never to return!

  • Melonfarmer says:
    25 Oct25 October 08:06

    Does the IAG loyalty feedback work for those who signed up the day of HfP’s first email, but are still waiting for the card to arrive? I say “still waiting”, but I gave up on this pos ages ago.

  • Alan says:
    25 Oct25 October 08:07

    $30 for 40 min (including the 10 min sign up faff going by other reports on here) doesn’t exactly seem worth it – esp for the City demographic that you say makes up most of the site audience 😉

    • KevinS says:
      25 Oct25 October 08:27

      Need to think about the opportunity cost. You could use that time to be making more money from something else.

      • tony says:
        25 Oct25 October 08:47

        “Pulling the levers on the global fruit machine” as one columnist put it….

      • Rob says:
        25 Oct25 October 08:48

        If you WFH, you will be 🙂

        I assume most HfP-reading WFH’ers will already have two jobs they do side by side, picking up two full time pay cheques …..

        • KevinS says:
          25 Oct25 October 11:16

          “I assume most HfP-reading WFH’ers will already have two jobs ”

          Why do you assume that? Any data to back this up?

          • Rob says:
            25 Oct25 October 12:50

            It would be disappointing if such a creative bunch weren’t taking advantage of the opportunity to double up 🙂

          • KevinS says:
            25 Oct25 October 14:01

            Depends how busy their jobs are really.

            Although, given how often some people post on here, I’m guessing not very 🙂

        • Lady London says:
          25 Oct25 October 18:01

          Nah. I outsource mine.

    • Alan says:
      25 Oct25 October 23:06

      Lol first time I’ve heard City workers described as creative except when referencing accounting 😜😂

  • Will says:
    25 Oct25 October 08:14

    Typical BA. Customer feedback could just use hfp comments and not an app that gives minimal info and seems to be a complete timewaster

  • Will says:
    25 Oct25 October 08:15

    Anyone actually received the 3k bonus avios yet?

    Not sure if those are the ones who signed up on the first day, in which case the rest will be trickling in.

  • Lilly says:
    25 Oct25 October 08:20

    The offer is there on my BA card only but not my Amex gold

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