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Get 8,000 Avios with an excellent The Wine Flyer deal

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The Wine Flyer, the Avios-run wine retailer, has brought back the bonus offer it ran last week but which we only posted about in the last few hours before it expired! If you read HfP by email then you never saw it.

Not only is it back, but it is improved.

You can earn 8,000 Avios with a £125 spend on anything you like. Postage is free and, unlike the deal last week, you don’t need to spend the £125 on a case. You can pick anything you like.

The American Express part of this deal ends on Friday 15th December (EDIT: Now over!)

To make the most of this deal you need access to two deals:

  • 4,000 bonus Avios for spending £125 at The Wine Flyer using code FESTIVE – the expiry date is 17th December, or whenever 5,000 codes have been redeemed if sooner
  • 4,000 bonus Avios for spending £125+ on your British Airways American Express Card – you MUST opt-in to this offer, it is not automatic – the expiry date for this is 15th December

You need to opt in to the American Express bonus via the ‘Offers’ page of the Amex app or website BEFORE making your purchase. You are looking for this:

8000 Avios with champagne trio

How do you get the offer?

It’s easy enough. Head to The Wine Flyer website, put £125 of items in your cart (UK delivery is free) and add code ‘FESTIVE’. The extra 4,000 Avios will show immediately.

Remember to pay with the British Airways American Express card you registered for the 2nd 4,000 Avios offer. Because you are spending over £125 this bonus will trigger, with the 4,000 Avios being added to your next American Express statement.

In total, you are paying £125 for whatever wine, champagne or spirits you choose, delivered to your door, plus 8,000 Avios. 4,000 Avios will arrive immediately and the additional 4,000 Avios will come with your next American Express statement. You can’t argue with that.

If you want to combine both offers, I suggest you order today. The American Express offer ends on 15th December.


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 (114)

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  • TimM says:

    My BA Amex Wine Flyer offer is 2500 Avios for an £80 spend, also expires tomorrow.

  • Mouse says:

    My 4,000 + 5x spend are both already showing in my avios balance, confirming this point.

  • F says:

    Wine flyer seems to get mixed reviews re: VFM vs quality wine from the supermarkets. I’m tempted by the offer but not sure I’ll get bang for buck. Any views?

    • Rob says:

      Factor in free delivery and the lack of minimum case volumes and it is not much above anywhere else – and you get 66% of your spend back as Avios.

      Be wary of googling wine prices as most merchants quote exc VAT and duty (a lot) and postage.

      • ken says:

        For fine wine, wine flyer is astonishingly bad value you are probably looking at at least a 50% mark up on other UK retailers.

        For wine at £10 a bottle, I’m not sure how long you’d have to scroll down the google search pages before finding anyone selling this in bond.

        Duty is £2.67 a bottle (up to 14.5% ABV), its the VAT thats the killer

  • Michael C says:

    Done! and that was having hovered over the 4k offer yesterday!
    Not overwhelmed by the range, but between a couple of safe bets and a couple of let’s tries, the offer was just too good to miss – thanks @HfPTeam!

  • Michael says:

    Don’t bother if you are from Northern Ireland, they will not deliver here.

    • Adam says:

      That rules it out for me too. Sigh

    • MC says:

      Thanks for highlighting, it’s not made clear on the website until checkout.

      Seemingly this is to do with licencing laws prohibiting loyalty schemes connected to alcohol sales in NI (and ROI).

      • Bryan says:

        Got this reply too from them when I queried. They said ‘perhaps in the future.’

        Suppose it’s Tesco buy 6, get 25% off for me!

  • David says:

    After jumping through all the hoops, they won’t ship to Northern Ireland UK

  • G says:

    Shame most of the wine is marked up over other providers (majestic, laithwaites, virgin) with a smaller range.

    Even adjusting for the avios (0.8-1p per avio) – I struggle to see why people would go for this.

    • Rob says:

      If you value the Avios at 1p then you pay £45 for £125 of wine. Even if you assume a 20% mark-up over Laithwaites etc (which stripping out delivery, minimum order rules etc I doubt) this is still far better value.

      • Ben says:

        Although this ignores the endless % discount/cash back offers you can get from Laithwaites on card offers.

      • Brian Steven’s says:

        Very true just ordered 6 bottles of sparkling from Oz and the UK for £125.94. Valuing Avios at 1p I have paid £6.60 a bottle. You can’t beat that.

      • Nibk says:

        The wine appears to come from Laithwaites anyway. I just bought a Christmas case from the The Wine Flyer TO TRIGGER THE 8,000 Avios and the confirmatory email states my order as “1 x Christmas Selection Twelve LAITHWAITES”

    • John Flower-Jones says:

      That’s not factually correct. Couple of examples:
      – Whispering Angel – £16.99 per bottle vs £23.99 at majestic (£18.99 on multiply). Sainsburys are selling it for £17.00.
      – Moet – £38.99 vs £46.99 at majestic and £43.99 at Virgin.

      It’s a competitive market with everyone discounting to win business but these guys seem very competitive and even market leading on some pricing. And then you get all the Avios on top!

      • Pbdj says:

        Whilst I agree with your point in general, Sainsbury’s is doing 25% off any 6+ bottles at the moment, so whispering angel is £12.75 there really, and Moet is £26.25…

        There are still doubtlessly good buys to be had here to maximise the value, just be careful!

  • Gordon says:

    Not really a wine drinker, I’ve never used Wineflyer before. But I may do on this occasion, as the comments seem to prove that this is worth a punt, unless someone wants to convince me otherwise!

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