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Get triple Avios at BA Holidays when you pay with a British Airways Premium Plus Amex card

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BA Holidays has launched a special deal for holders of the British Airways Premium Plus American Express credit card.

If you book by 7th March, you will receive triple Avios from BA Holidays – that’s 3 Avios per £1 spent.

Full details are on the BA Holidays website here.

This is ON TOP of the 3 Avios per £1 that you would for paying with your British Airways Premium Plus American Express card.

This means, in total, you’re getting 6 Avios per £1 spent at BA Holidays.

For clarity ….. whilst you need to pay with a BAPP card to receive the bonus Avios, the bonus Avios do NOT come via your American Express statement. They will come from BA Holidays after your trip, with the usual 1 Avios per £1 spent tripled to 3 Avios per £1 spent.

The last day to travel is 10th January 2025, although you need to book by 7th March.

Don’t forget the Avios for your flight too!

You will also receive the usual Avios from your holidays flights, assuming they are on British Airways or one of its partners.

It’s a triple dip:

  • Avios from your holiday flight
Double Avios with BA Holidays

STILL RUNNING: You will also receive DOUBLE British Airways Executive Club tier points too

Don’t forget that British Airways Holidays has extended its double tier points offer by another year, out to 31st December 2024. This remains one of the most attractive promotions currently running from any travel company.

As a quick recap, if you book a ‘flight and hotel’ or ‘flight and car’ package for at least five nights, and travel by 31st December 2024, you will receive double BA tier points on your flights. Existing bookings count.

You could get very close to a Silver card from scratch in one trip. For example, booking London to New York in Club World, you would get (140 + 140) x 2 = 560 tier points.

There are two things to note about the double tier points offer:

  • you must book flights which carry a British Airways flight number – codeshare flights with, say, Qatar Airways are acceptable but only if your booking shows a BAXXXX flight number
  • whilst your booking must contain at least five nights of hotel or car rental, your overall stay can be longer

Full details of the ‘double tier points’ offer can be found on the British Airways Holidays website here.

Full details of the ‘triple Avios for BAPP cardholders’ offer can be found here.

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Comments (50)

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  • Gordon says:
    21 Feb21 February 04:12

    Thanks for the heads up Rob, BA seem to be pushing their holidays, with this and the tier points promotion,
    I unfortunately will not be able to take advantage on a long haul flight, as have a couple of redemption and cash bookings this year already,
    But may look at a Europe destination to top up.

  • Adam says:
    21 Feb21 February 06:30

    Assume this is only after you click register. Doesn’t seem to say on the BA website.

  • t0m says:
    21 Feb21 February 06:48

    So annoying that it doesn’t apply to existing bookings 🙁

    • TGLoyalty says:
      21 Feb21 February 10:06

      It is but BA is clearly trying to encourage more bookings here rather than just general reward for customers.

  • PlaneSpeaking says:
    21 Feb21 February 06:59

    Hi Rob, thanks for this and sounds great but to my detriment, I book our hols the moment they’re released. I have 4 trips already booked with BAH for this year and I have registered for the promotion as of now but the T&Cs state ‘Offer is available for new bookings made between 20 February 2024 and 07 March 2024 (“Promotional Period”) for holidays for travel between 24 February 2024 and 10 January 2025 inclusive.’ I have only paid the deposits for our trips so I wonder if the shortcomings of BAs IT will be my friend here?! I have a horrible feeling it will be the only time their system is efficient and will look at the date I booked the trip rather than the date I’ll have paid the balance but I live in hope and I guess I’ll find out after our first trip. Either way, it’s a great deal, particularly as Avios awarded through BAH are still distance based rather than revenue as far as I know and all of these trips are Band 4.

  • executiveclubber says:
    21 Feb21 February 07:29

    would NYC be the best method of attaining Silver / Gold here? Perhaps a couple of returns to Sofia would be cheaper but yield a few less Avios

    • yonasl says:
      21 Feb21 February 07:52

      That was just an example on a trip people may be thinking on doing anyway. I don’t think many fly business class to Sofia TWICE a year.

      • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:
        21 Feb21 February 07:57

        Since the double TP offer SOF has been a very popular destination especially in CE with some people doing it several times so don’t discount it.

        • Rob says:
          21 Feb21 February 08:12

          Many do it twice per month ….!

          • Mayfair Mike says:
            21 Feb21 February 20:57

            Why? They must truly value their time at worthless then! Just to be able to sit in the odd lounge and not pay for access 🤦‍♂️

          • Rob says:
            21 Feb21 February 22:44

            Have a weekend break in Sofia for £200 x 5 times and you get BA Gold for 18+ months and a year of BA Silver afterwards. If you are low on commitments its not a terrible scenario. Obviously you can swap Sofia for Athens, Malta etc if you want to pay a little more.

    • Mikel says:
      21 Feb21 February 07:56

      Been looking at Istanbul too for a 5 night holiday – yields 480 tier points from a regional airport. 720 TP’s New York but considerably more expensive

  • LittleNick says:
    21 Feb21 February 07:42

    How do the mechanics of this work? Specifically how does BA know you’re paying with a BAPP Amex?

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:
      21 Feb21 February 07:45

      From the credit card number.?

      Don’t the first 4 digits indicate what type of card it is / card issuer?

      • LittleNick says:
        21 Feb21 February 07:50

        Yes they can tell it’s an Amex and whether it’s personal or business but not which one it is? Can they tell from this whether it’s Gold or Platinum or BAPP? Or is it when the BAPP links to your exec club they go by that?

      • memesweeper says:
        21 Feb21 February 08:31

        I think the BIN on Amex is first six digits. Getting that info passed from your card processor per transaction snd then reconciling will be a world of pain (and BA don’t do good IT). I’m guessing Amex will run a report on cardholders and matching transactions for BAH to use, or BA will tie up Avios earned from BA(PP) Amex and reconcile with BAEC members from that.

  • Occasional Ranter says:
    21 Feb21 February 07:45

    I’m guessing even if the flights get double tier points they don’t count twice for purposes of reaching 4 eligible flights for silver status ?

    (Trying to decide where to credit some serious long haul ow flights, baec seems best apart from fact I’d still have to take 4 cash flights with them to reach silver )

    • yonasl says:
      21 Feb21 February 07:57

      Remember it is 4 BA or Iberia flights. That opens a few more options.

      • AJA says:
        21 Feb21 February 08:10

        It’s actually more than that. BA marketed but other OW carrier operated flights also count as an eligible flight. So you could fly on Cathay Pacific or American Airlines or Qatar Airways or any other OW carrier including Iberia metal and as long as your reservation has a BA flight number that counts too.

        The IB distinction is that flights on IB metal with an IB flight number count. But AA metal with an AA flight number would not.

      • AJA says:
        21 Feb21 February 08:15

        @yonasl Trying again as my original reply didn’t post – it may appear later so I apologise in advance if that happens.

        It’s more than just the options you mention.

        BA marketed but OW operated flights count as eligible flughts. The key is the flight number. So as long as it has a BA flight number any OW operated flight counts. Eg BA1234 operated by Cathay Pacific.

        The IB peculiarity is that IB flight numbers on IB metal count unlike say AA flight number on AA metal.

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:
      21 Feb21 February 07:58

      No they don’t count twice.

  • Mikel says:
    21 Feb21 February 07:52

    “You could get very close to a Silver card from scratch in one trip. For example, booking London to New York in Club World, you would get (140 + 140) x 2 = 560 tier points.”

    Flying from a regional airport will yield another 160 TP’s round trip on a BA holiday, so silver card guaranteed.

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