Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
The American Express Preferred Rewards Gold Credit Card is our top choice for your first ‘miles and points’ credit card.
It has no annual fee for the first year, comes with four free airport lounge passes and £120 of annual Deliveroo credit and has a very generous sign-up bonus of 20,000 Membership Rewards points.
You can read our full review of the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold Credit Card here. You can apply for the card here.
There are three types of loyalty credit card: The card you actually use day-to-day because of its good earning rate in a programme you value The card you get purely for the sign-up bonus, and cancel .....
There are three types of loyalty credit card: The card you actually use day-to-day because of its good earning .....
2 Aug 20122 August 2012 • 6 comments
With BMI’s departure from Star Alliance, those of us who regularly fly on Star Alliance member airlines are having to look for a new home for their miles. One of the key determinants, for me, .....
With BMI’s departure from Star Alliance, those of us who regularly fly on Star Alliance member airlines .....
23 Jul 201223 July 2012 • 4 comments
Reader Kim got in touch to ask my advice on a letter she received from American Express. She has a Gold card – the old style one, no longer available to new customer. This is different .....
Reader Kim got in touch to ask my advice on a letter she received from American Express. She has a Gold .....
22 Jul 201222 July 2012 • 1 comment
Today is July 16th, which means that its the day that the changes to the American Express Platinum Card benefits come into force. To say that Amex’s changes to the Platinum card this year have .....
Today is July 16th, which means that its the day that the changes to the American Express Platinum Card .....
16 Jul 201216 July 2012 • 14 comments
American Airlines has halved the sign-up bonus on its American Express and Visa credit card double-pack. The cards, issued by MBNA, now offer only 5,000 American Airlines AAdvantage miles for .....
American Airlines has halved the sign-up bonus on its American Express and Visa credit card double-pack. The .....
11 Jul 201211 July 2012 • 3 comments
When I wrote my piece on Friday about getting family and partners to apply for American Express cards so that you could both benefit from referral bonuses, I forgot to mention one additional benefit .....
When I wrote my piece on Friday about getting family and partners to apply for American Express cards so that .....
8 Jul 20128 July 2012
The credit card posts on Head for Points are focussed on the sign-up and ongoing bonuses that you can get for applying personally for the various loyalty credit cards. These are, at present, the .....
The credit card posts on Head for Points are focussed on the sign-up and ongoing bonuses that you can get for .....
6 Jul 20126 July 2012 • 5 comments
Breaking news. American Express has changed the sign-up bonuses and the T&C’s for receiving them on its charge cards. The net result is to make the bonuses harder for existing customers .....
Breaking news. American Express has changed the sign-up bonuses and the T&C’s for receiving them .....
5 Jul 20125 July 2012
For most of 2011, UK frequent fliers who track the US market could only sit back and stare as credit card sign-up bonuses went crazy. Ironically, the credit card that BA launched in conjunction with .....
For most of 2011, UK frequent fliers who track the US market could only sit back and stare as credit card .....
29 May 201229 May 2012
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