HSBC offering a 13%-15% Heathrow Express discount

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• DaveP says:

  7 Sep7 September 06:29

  Finnair also have a 50% bonus offer on buying Avios.

  • BJ says:

    7 Sep7 September 08:21

    With a longer expiration date so no rush to buy from Qatar except Qatar are a fraction cheaper.

• daveinitalia says:

  7 Sep7 September 07:20

  Of course this offer has no way of telling that you’re an HSBC customer (I do happen to have a very old rarely used account that was branded Midland Bank when I opened it).

  I have a Network Railcard so I get 33% off should I find the need for a HEX but the Elizabeth line is both cheaper and gets you closer to where you want to be in almost every situation.

  • Nathan Fox says:

    7 Sep7 September 08:39

    Railcards also give you the 33% discount on the Elizabeth line.

    • CamFlyer says:

      7 Sep7 September 12:21

      For some reason I never get the 10% LNER offer on any of our cards–only 5%. The 10% Uber trains credit works just fine, however.

  • L Allen says:

    7 Sep7 September 10:07

    I was wondering if there was some data sharing to validate that you had the right type of account to be able to claim the offer.

    There is very little point to the HEX nowadays. Paddington isn’t a very convenient station, unless it was your intended destination

    • modestpointscollector says:

      7 Sep7 September 10:21

      Agree, Paddington was amazing back in the days before mobile apps and online check in when you could check yourself and your bags in there, and travel to the airport with the minimum of fuss, but with the Liz line going into central London it’s just a painful changeover – unless you’re looking to get a direct train back in the opposite direction to somewhere like Bristol or Cardiff.

      • Froggee says:

        7 Sep7 September 11:31

        The Heathrow Express became dead to me the time it decided to have operational issues when I was on it resulting in me missing the last flight home and spending the night at the Sofitel without so much as a clean pair of knickers to my name.

    • Lumma says:

      7 Sep7 September 21:26

      I live next to an elizabeth line station and thr Heathrow Express is still quicker even when changing at Paddington

• Mikel says:

  7 Sep7 September 08:06

  There’s also a 10% cash back offer on the BA premium plus card

• Bernard says:

  7 Sep7 September 12:32

  wow. Another HEX ‘offer’ you can’t use on any useful fare.
  HEX need to stop the gimmicks and face facts: they have a fixed cost and seem to be running largely empty trains now (once you discount airport staff using it).
  Time instead to price at £8 to make it competitive with Liz line.
  The Liz semi-express T5 trains twice an hour are still way ahead of HEX. That is, when Network Rail actually get the tracks to/from Paddington to work now and then.

• S879 says:

  7 Sep7 September 12:55

  Isn’t BA Avios 3x boost a cheaper option compared to the QR 50% Avios buy points?

  • Rob says:

    7 Sep7 September 14:09

    If a) you have enough Avios to boost and b) you’ve not hit your cap then potentially yes. But most people fall on a)

• LittleNick says:

  7 Sep7 September 17:12

  Sadly the HSBC HEX discount cannot be combined with a railcard. I guess that’s asking for too much

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