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Rare 10% BA cashback offer launched with American Express – register quickly

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British Airways and American Express appear to have launched a decent cashback offer this morning.

You will get 10% back on all transactions at ba.com, and this should (not guaranteed) include taxes and charges paid on Avios bookings.

However, only 35,000 cards can be registered and it appears to only be showing to a very controlled group. My wife and I do not see it across any of our cards.

This is what you are looking for in the ‘Offers’ section of one or more of your American Express cards:

British Airways and American Express cashback

There isn’t much restrictive small print:

  • bookings must be made at ba.com (no call centre payments)
  • there is no minimum spend
  • you are capped at £100 cashback in total
  • cumulative spend is OK
  • flights must depart the UK
  • you must spend by 11th September

IMPORTANT: Because cumulative spending is OK, you don’t need to register multiple American Express cards (assuming you have it on multiple cards) unless you intend to spend over £1,000 with British Airways by 11th September. If your BA spend is almost certain to be under £1,000 in the next six weeks, just register one card and leave open more of the 35,000 slots for other readers.

I don’t have any emails yet from readers who have this on a British Airways American Express card. The two examples I’ve seen so far – although its only 8am – were on Preferred Rewards Gold and American Express Cashback.

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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:

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There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

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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.

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

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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.

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Comments (127)

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  • Harrods says:
    31 Jul31 July 12:28

    Have it on P2 Platinum only but not on the supplementary.

    I needed to change my avios flights for September so might make sense to cancel and pay the fee and rebook… taxes are around £500

  • Gabriel says:
    31 Jul31 July 12:30

    Not on BA Card nor Rewards card unfortunately

  • Des says:
    31 Jul31 July 12:39

    Not on our BA cards either unfortunately

  • Peter K says:
    31 Jul31 July 12:52

    On nectar card, not BAPP.

  • Alex says:
    31 Jul31 July 13:02

    Nothing on my plat. I do have 250 back on 1500 spend on VS instead, but I don’t fly them…

    • Rob says:
      31 Jul31 July 13:12

      Algorithm works then!

      • meta says:
        31 Jul31 July 14:09

        It works in a sense that it targets correctly, but it stops at that. The offer will very rarely change behaviour. Will Alex start flying Virgin? For 16-17% off, I doubt it.

        • babyg_wc says:
          31 Jul31 July 14:31

          I have the virgin one too (sadlly no BA as i have many BA bookings), made me “look” at doing a family virgin redemption which i wouldnt have looked at without the discount.. sadly the math still doesnt work with virgins crazy fees… but the amex offers does drive the expected behaviour i think..

        • ChasP says:
          31 Jul31 July 14:51

          16-17% off should change a few minds
          Yesterday we had people who would change for a better champagne !

        • Rob says:
          31 Jul31 July 15:30

          So you’re suggesting that all of the laws of economics, as practised for the last 200 years or so, are wrong? 🙂

          • meta says:
            31 Jul31 July 17:11

            Marketing departments used to be smarter than just blindly targeting anyone who hasn’t used the service before.

          • Rob says:
            31 Jul31 July 18:01

            The redemption rate of Amex Offers is 1.5% from those who save them.

            I’m honestly not sure what that says, except that – potentially – there are a huge number of people who save everything to their card (which is the logical thing to do) just in case.

            I reckon I use around 75% of those I save, because I only save them if I seriously think I’ll use them.

          • meta says:
            31 Jul31 July 18:34

            1.5% seems a very low number suggesting something isn’t right, but difficult to tell without knowing other factors.

          • John says:
            1 Aug1 August 05:48

            I used to just save every offer when it was easy to do using the website, but it’s harder to do it on the app and logging onto the website is annoying now

    • Alex G says:
      31 Jul31 July 17:01

      I’ve got “spend £800 or more, get £150 back” at Virgin Atlantic on my ARCC.

      (Won’t be using it)

  • Talay says:
    31 Jul31 July 15:27

    9 years ago today from HfP

    Qatar selling £1,000 business class tickets again!
    Qatar Airways has been selling some exceptionally cheap business class tickets to Asia over the past year. As Qatar is a member of oneworld, these tickets also earn British Airways tier points – normally 560 per return trip (140 x 4, given the connection in Doha). That is almost Silver status.

    For bookings before August 2nd, there are again some excellent fares out of Amsterdam. These are for travel between September 1st and June 10th 2016.
    (You cannot fly out between 10-31 December or 16-28 March. You cannot return between 31 December – 15 January or 27 March – 10 April.)

    Sample business class return fares from Amsterdam include:
    Bangkok €1,385 (£967)
    Abu Dhabi €1,320
    Durban €1,765
    Goa €1,695
    Jo’burg €1,765
    Phuket €1,565
    Singapore €1,420

    • Guernsey Globetrotter says:
      31 Jul31 July 15:35

      Blimey – look at the Euro exchange rate @ >1.40 per £ back then. I bet no one would have guessed it could approach parity in the next decade (good old Liz & Kwasi)…

  • BJ says:
    31 Jul31 July 15:54

    Across 8 HHA member cards thee things stood out:

    1. Only appears on cards that have never been used at BA.com

    2. Did not appear on any BA cards.

    3. Did not appear on any sup including those where it appeared on main associated card.

  • Stankpa says:
    31 Jul31 July 16:22

    Not on my BAPP or Marriott AMEX. I’ve been making BA purchases on both cards the last few months…I wonder if BA is taking these for granted

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