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Heathrow Express still offering £10 August tickets – and now with 10 points per £1 on top!

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Heathrow Express is running a strong promotion for travel in August, although only a limited number of dates are still available.

You can book a one way ticket for just £10.

Given that children under 15 are free on Heathrow Express, a family of four with two young children could travel to the airport for just £20.

You may remember that we covered this deal last month. What has changed now is that Heathrow Express is ALSO offering 10 Heathrow Rewards points per £1 on all pre-booked tickets bought by 31st August.

This is equivalent to a further 10% return on your spending!

Heathrow Express

The £10 tickets offer can be be booked via this link

Only 25,000 tickets are being released at £10 so you should book sooner rather than later. Best availability now is towards the end of the month.

The offer can be combined with a Railcard discount which takes the price down to £6.60 each way. Details of how to claim a Railcard discount are on this page of the Heathrow Express site.

Get an extra 10% to 15% off with American Express

Heathrow Express is currently offering 15% cashback to many American Express cardholders.

You need to see if you are targeted for this by looking in the ‘Offers’ tab on the Amex website or app for each of the cards that you hold. You need to click ‘Save to Card’ to register.

Depending on which version of the offer you have, you will get 10% to 15% cashback on your next Heathrow Express transaction. There is no minimum spend. The offer can only be used once per registered card.

This could take the cost of your special offer ticket down to as little as £8.50 one way.

Earn Heathrow Rewards points too

You are able to collect Heathrow Rewards points on Heathrow Express tickets booked online – click here to read the details on the Heathrow Express website.   This works on both the main website and the Heathrow Express app.

The standard earning rate is 1 Heathrow Rewards point per £1 spent.

However, until 31st August you will receive 10 Heathrow Rewards points per £1.

They can be redeemed 1:1 for Avios, Virgin Points, Emirates Skywards miles, Heathrow shopping vouchers and various other bits and pieces.

(If you are booking fully flexible Heathrow Express tickets you can book via www.heathrowexpress.com/avios and earn 5 Avios points per £1 spent (see ba.com here) but you cannot combine this with the £10 offer. In any event, 10 Heathrow Rewards points per £1 is more valuable than 5 Avios per £1.)

Full details of the ’10 points per £1′ offer can be found on the Heathrow airport website here. No registration is required.

Heathrow Express Business First

Get a free Business First upgrade with BA Gold Guest List or Star Alliance Gold status

These offers will combine with the ‘free First Class upgrade’ offer available to:

  • British Airways Gold Guest List members (+ one guest)
  • Gold members of any Star Alliance frequent flyer programme (+ one guest)

If you have either of these statuses, you can sit in Business First, image above. Simply show your Standard Class ticket to the guard along with your frequent flyer membership card.

The BA Gold Guest List offer is outlined here on ba.com (log-in required). This page of the Star Alliance website has details of their offer.

Conclusion

The £10 August one-way tickets between Paddington and Heathrow on Heathrow Express are bookable via this page of the Heathrow Express website.

Only 25,000 tickets are available so it is worth booking sooner rather than later.

The added benefit of 10 Heathrow Rewards points per £1 spent on pre-booked Heathrow Express tickets in August makes the deal even better.

In fact, you could quadruple dip:

  • get a one-way ticket in August for just £10 per adult (children are free)
  • earn 10 Heathrow Rewards points per £1 with this new offer
  • get 10% to 15% cashback if you are targeted for the American Express offer
  • get a free First Class upgrade if you are Star Alliance Gold or British Airways Gold Guest List
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Heathrow Rewards

Comments (24)

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  • Cal says:
    4 Aug4 August 06:22

    Unless I am missing something the earliest £10 tickets I can see is for the 20th of August. Coming up at £25 for all dates before that.

    • Rob says:
      4 Aug4 August 08:17

      Could have sold out on earlier dates. Was wide open when we first ran this offer.

  • R2 says:
    4 Aug4 August 06:25

    There is also a targeted official Heathrow Parking offer received by email on Monday. Easy to miss so thought it was worth highlighting. Details below.

    As a loyal Heathrow Rewards member, you can save 15% on Official Heathrow Parking this summer. 

    Make a booking online between 29 July and 7 September 2024 using the unique booking link below, for car park entry and exit between 29 July and 8 September 2024 inclusive. The link is valid for one booking and discounted prices will automatically be applied. This offer is not available through any other booking link or the customer service team. Book now to secure your space. Terms and Conditions apply.*

    Make your journey even more rewarding with this limited‑time exclusive offer.

  • supergraeme says:
    4 Aug4 August 07:29

    Does this suggest they’re feeling the loss of custom to the Elizabeth Line or is it just a sale?

    • The Original David says:
      4 Aug4 August 08:01

      Well they used to do £5.50 advance tickets, but dropped them shortly after the Elizabeth line came along. So either they don’t see the Elizabeth line as competition, or the Commercial team at HEX are reading their economics books upside down…

  • Donald says:
    4 Aug4 August 07:35

    No £10 tickets found (Checking at 7.30am on Sunday 4th August).

  • daveinitalia says:
    4 Aug4 August 08:20

    I’d rather pay a little more for the convenience of the Elizabeth line which takes me closer to where I want to go and offers better interchange opportunities

    • u07ch says:
      4 Aug4 August 11:39

      Heathrow should implement express HEX trains to run to Liverpool Street and Canary Wharf would add some competition to City Airport . Watching barely controlled wheeled bags lurch back and forth on the Betty put me off it.

      • Rob says:
        4 Aug4 August 12:22

        Without wishing to state the obvious, if you only have a single track then you can’t run ‘express’ trains because they would quickly catch the train in front.

      • Sam Bland says:
        4 Aug4 August 17:37

        Whereas barely controlled drunk bankers at bars at said destinations is ok?
        Anyway, is Canary Wharf even a thing now. Thought it was all back office .
        Money is in Mayfair. Maybe extend Heathrow Express with a new tunnel to Mayfair, then to Victoria on onward to Chavwick?

        • Londonsteve says:
          4 Aug4 August 20:34

          Not sure how this relates to the HEX, but anyway. I don’t think it works that way, Mayfair is hedge funds and private equity, the City a mix of brokers, investment banks and insurance while CW is largely banks. Back office these days is largely found in places like Birmingham, Glasgow, Poland and India, not much in London at all.

  • Iain says:
    4 Aug4 August 08:35

    Can’t find any £10 tickets in August. £25 for a single journey really is a disgrace (which is why I never use it).

  • Richard h says:
    4 Aug4 August 10:01

    The Elizabeth line to T5 takes a full 7 minutes longer now than the express, as they stop less frequently on the way. it also avoids the interchange scrum at Paddington

  • Adam says:
    4 Aug4 August 14:58

    Do you get the extra rewards points per GBP if you booked when the offer was announced earlier but are still travelling in August?

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