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Get 1,000 bonus Avios with a new British Airways American Express deal with BA Cityflyer

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A new offer has appeared on British Airways American Express Premium Plus credit cards, and potentially also on the free version.

You should find it on the ‘Offers’ page of the American Express app or website on your BA Amex account.

It is simple enough. Once registered, you will receive 1,000 bonus Avios when you spend £200 on BA Cityflyer flights at ba.com by 10th March.

BA CityFlyer American Express offer

The bonus Avios will be sent via American Express along with your normal monthly Avios, and not added to whatever flights you book.

Cumulative spend is OK.

Note that the offer appears more generous than it is. Amex talks about ‘British Airways spend’ but when you click the list of participating airports you will see that ONLY BA Cityflyer services are included. This means that only BA Cityflyer flights from London City, Edinburgh, Southampton and Stansted count. You can’t use the offer on any flights to/from Heathrow or Gatwick.

Flights must depart from the UK and must be a round trip. The bonus will not trigger if you book a one-way BA Cityflyer flight to the UK, and in theory won’t trigger if you only book a one-way outbound.

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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (March 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.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on the ‘free for a year’ American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card is increased from 20,000 Membership Rewards points to 30,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (30,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on American Express Platinum is increased from 50,000 Membership Rewards points to a huge 80,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (80,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

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.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 8th April 2025, the sign-up bonus on American Express Business Platinum is increased from 50,000 Membership Rewards points to 120,000 points. You receive 80,000 points when you spend £12,000 within three months and a further 40,000 points if you spend on the card between Month 14 and Month 17. Points convert 1:1 into Avios and many other programmes. Click here to apply.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 8th April 2025, the sign-up bonus on American Express Business Gold is increased from 20,000 Membership Rewards points to 60,000 points. You receive 40,000 points when you spend £6,000 within three months and a further 20,000 points if you spend on the card between Month 14 and Month 17. Points convert 1:1 into Avios and many other programmes. Click here to apply.

American Express Business Platinum

Up to 120,000 points when you sign-up and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

Up to 60,000 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 (28)

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  • His Holyness says:
    30 Jan30 January 04:30

    Thank the Lord the Hilton “sale” is ending…prices can now drop.

  • Fazzy Bear says:
    30 Jan30 January 05:50

    The deliveroo offer is now for orders over £15 not £25.

    Service fees is now 10% of basket value – not sure what previous amount was but it’s most likely a increase.

  • Terry Butler says:
    30 Jan30 January 06:32

    What a lot of faffing about and restrictions for just £10 worth of Avios. sometimes I wonder what the marketing people of these big corporations are thinking of.

    How complex can they make it?

    • No longer Entitled says:
      30 Jan30 January 08:24

      Presumably they are thinking: how can we get the most people to spend (headline) but pay out the least amount (T&C’s).

    • executiveclubber says:
      30 Jan30 January 08:26

      Perhaps trialling how small an incentive they can offer to still positively impact their bottom line? They also trialled discounts for Exec Club from LCY recently

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:
      30 Jan30 January 09:00

      Hardly a faff.

      You register the offer as you would any other Amex offer then book as normal on BA website /app.

      Given how some people on here will move heaven and earth for 100 this is a big bonus!

      • CamFlyer says:
        30 Jan30 January 11:16

        Agree. For, say, a £250 flight that already earns 3 Avios/£1, that bumps it to 7 Avios/£1 (8 if one can spend exactly £200). That’s a good return on spend.

        That will undoubtedly pick up marginal additional business to BA from competing airlines, or to BAPP customers from other card products.

    • lumma says:
      30 Jan30 January 09:04

      I never understand the point of offers like these. They’re hardly going to change most customer behaviour (if you’re willing to book through an OTA, you’ll possibly be able to beat the value of the Avios with an actual discount), so when you do get someone who qualifies, it’s highly likely they’d have made the purchase anyway.

      It’s like the 1 Avios per £ on Uber offer, does anyone choose Uber for a few pence worth of Avios on each trip?

      • Rob says:
        30 Jan30 January 09:14

        Two differences here:

        *BA has done a lot of promotion for Uber via email etc, which is probably worth at least the value of the Avios bought

        *A lot of Uber in London will be a business expense and so the traveller may choose Uber over a cheaper alternative in order to gain Avios

        The Cityflyer offer would have been more effective if the headline was ‘1000 Avios for flying BA from Southampton’ etc which would at least have promoted the routes more widely.

        • lumma says:
          30 Jan30 January 12:06

          When I was a restaurant manager, we’d often transfer stock between restaurants by booking Ubers. Just for convenience I’d say 99% of the company just used Uber as a default and didn’t look at the alternatives. The 15-20 Avios per journey wouldn’t have made me switch from say Bolt. 5 Avios or more might have swung the deal

      • Andrew. says:
        30 Jan30 January 11:49

        It’s quite straightforward. I see the offer and book today for a flight from Southampton to EDI later in the year for a 1,000 Avios bonus and BA bank the money for 10 months.

        It means that in 8 months time I’m not booking a ticket with Avanti or Cross Country to take the train.

    • David says:
      30 Jan30 January 10:12

      I hope the uptake is not large and those similar as then we may start seeing spend £500 at BA and get 500 Avios bonus.

  • Nick G says:
    30 Jan30 January 07:33

    OT really but Hilton related. I emailed Emyr yesterday to make a booking at the WA Berlin on the 3 for 2 package due to end 31st March. My dates are in April and the new offer isn’t available as yet but Emyr believes the offer will be repeated “soon”.

    Rob will you be putting it in HfP once Emyr contacts you re the offer?

  • Starved2095 says:
    30 Jan30 January 08:33

    I’m already a HelloFresh weekly user & a long time Prime member so the free delivery special is brilliant, thanks for posting!

  • Kristofer says:
    30 Jan30 January 15:09

    Sharing the Hello Fresh promotion was great. It’ll save someone who gets a weekly box roughly over £250 a year!

  • kevin says:
    30 Jan30 January 23:16

    Rob, I know you’ve said BA Cityflyer flights from London City, Edinburgh, Southampton and Stansted count. What about BHD? Technically we are in the UK as well, at least for the moment. BA CF fly BHD-LCY.

  • Socktrunk says:
    1 Feb1 February 05:36

    Hey Rob, edge case question: do you reckon the Avios bonus will still trigger if it’s a single round trip booking, outbound LCY to FRA (which is on the offer list, and is CityFlyer)… but inbound FRA to LHR? Annoyingly, BA don’t fly FRA-LCY on Saturdays.

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