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Earlier this week we told you that the Daily Mail is ending its relationship with Nectar.

You will no longer be able to collect points by submitting codes from printed copies of the newspaper as of 14th September. Anyone with a digital or printed subscription can continue to collect until the end of November.

It seems that the Mail has a few Nectar points to use up, because it has launched a decent subscription offer.

Daily Mail subscription offer

For £20, you will receive a one year digital subscription to the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, plus 4,000 Nectar points.

4,000 Nectar points converts into 2,500 Avios, so you are getting 2,500 Avios for £20.

(If you drink Caffe Nero coffee, you’re getting 11 drinks @ 350 points each for £20!)

The only snag is that your subscription will auto-renew after one year at the full price of £120. You will need to cancel it before that point, and looking at the T&C this is only possible by telephone. It could be a little expensive if you forget.

Daily Mail Nectar offer

This offer is definitely not targeted. If you go to themailsubscriptions.co.uk you will see it come up.

Anyone who remembers the Mail subscription deal of a couple of years ago which was targeted – and led to everyone who wasn’t targeted getting their subscription cancelled – can rest easy.

In a bad piece of UX, you need to input your credit card details before you see the screenshot above which confirms the offer. You can still back out at this point though.


How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2025)

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

Get 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

30,000 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 – 30,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

80,000 bonus points and great travel benefits – for a large 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, and the standard card is FREE. Capital on Tap cards also have no FX fees.

Capital on Tap Visa

NO annual fee, NO FX fees and points worth 1 Avios per £1 Read our full review

Capital on Tap Pro Visa

10,500 points (=10,500 Avios) plus good benefits Read our full review

There is also a British Airways American Express card for small businesses:

British Airways American Express Accelerating Business

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

50,000 points when you sign-up 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.

Comments (143)

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  • Richie says:

    Can you get any points with a subscription to The Guardian?

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      Just print out a masthead with ‘The Guardian’ on it and stick it over the Mail logo on your iPad.

  • NorthernLass says:

    Indeed, if people don’t expose themselves a wide range of views, how can they be expected to develop critical thinking skills? It’s no wonder folk get so offended these days when someone presents a point of view they don’t agree with.

    But what does a subscription get you that you can’t read online?

    • yorkieflyer says:

      The Daily Telegraph presents opinion that I often but not always disagree with and yes I agree ones views should be challenged. However the Daily Mail as sat on my father’s coffee table and perused by me when visiting to check that it’s not gone soft is in my view the nastiest piece of vitriolic garbage

  • TimM says:

    I expected a more pragmatic, though not less snobbish, reaction from HfP readers. It is 0.8p/Avios, or less if the monthly bonuses for “the next few months” also bank.

    As I pointed out in a related HfP thread, I know many who would never agree with the gutter politics of the Mail but buy it on Saturdays for arguably the best TV supplement. You don’t have to read the rest.

    Combined with a probable loss-leader offer, those who disapprove of the existence of the Mail can get off their high-horses and vote with their feet by taking advantage of this offer. It is win-win-win.

    • Chris Palmer says:

      Tim, you can’t have been reading HeadforPoints for long if you expected a pragmatic response from the sort of people who leave comments! Every time Rob posts an article about the Mail Group (and, to a lesser extent, The Telegraph Group), there’s the same rush to virtue signal about the alleged evils of the Mail / Telegraph etc. Most of those commenting have never or rarely read the publication, implicitly knowing it to be wrong and not wishing to sully their fine, benevolent minds with wrong opinions. Of course, that is the sort of bigotry for which they condemn others, but because they know themselves to be righteous individuals, it doesn’t even enter their thought process.

    • yorkieflyer says:

      no it isnt and I wonder why your post hasn’t been removed?

  • Mark says:

    Does anyone know how you actually take possession of the nectar points once you’ve signed up? Thanks

  • Save East Coast Rewards says:

    They’re promoting Nectar, not Avios and as Rob says it looks like they’re doing so because they’ve probably got loads to use up before their partnership ends that they’ve already paid Nectar for.

  • yorkieflyer says:

    Oh dear

  • Save East Coast Rewards says:

    On FlyerTalk there’s mention of a new change as to how Nectar bonus points work.

    The old offers used to expire on the same day as the new offers appeared so in my case offers appeared on Tuesday and were valid up to and including the next Tuesday. Now there’s no overlap and the offers now expire on Monday.

    • lumma says:

      Yes. This happened from last week’s. I get my offers on a Friday and last week’s expired yesterday. When they first started doing the offers you had two days (the previous week’s used to expire on Saturday for me)

  • AirMax says:

    Has anyone tried using Che virtuals for this? Am thinking of signing up for my cat and hamster

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