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American Express Membership Rewards

Membership Rewards is the rewards currency for many American Express cards including the The Platinum Card, Preferred Rewards Gold and American Express Rewards Credit Card. You can see a card comparison here.

You can convert Membership Rewards points into many other hotel, airline and retail schemes including Avios, Virgin Flying Club, Hilton Honors, Marriott Bonvoy and even Amazon credit. For a complete list of all UK Amex Membership Rewards transfer partners, click here.

This article looks at the best value partners to use your Membership Rewards with.

Special American Express promotion when booking Virgin Atlantic

Amex has launched a special promotion, limited to just 1,000 cardholders, planning to fly with Virgin Atlantic. The first 1,000 holders of an Amex-issued Amex card to register and then book a Virgin .....

Amex has launched a special promotion, limited to just 1,000 cardholders, planning to fly with Virgin .....

by Rob Burgess2 comments

Analysing Star Alliance credit card opportunities for UK residents

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 .....

by Rob Burgess4 comments

Two little known Amex Membership Rewards features

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 .....

by Rob Burgess1 comment

Exploiting American Express referral bonuses

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 .....

The credit card posts on Head for Points are focussed on the sign-up and ongoing bonuses that you can get for .....

by Rob Burgess6 comments

Credit Card Reviews (1) – Hilton HHonors Platinum Visa

This is the first of a new series of posts looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether of not they are worth applying for. These posts will be linked to the relevant sections .....

This is the first of a new series of posts looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether .....

by Rob Burgess

End of American Express Membership Rewards transfers to Priority Club

A quick reminder that there are just two weeks left to transfer American Express Membership Rewards points to Priority Club – the last day is 30th June.  It is not clear why this .....

A quick reminder that there are just two weeks left to transfer American Express Membership Rewards points to .....

by Rob Burgess

Bits and pieces for Thursday

If you’ve been taking part in the avios.com and BAEC ‘new partners’ promo, anyone who converted £6.50 or more of Tesco vouchers to BAEC between February and May (and had not .....

If you’ve been taking part in the avios.com and BAEC ‘new partners’ promo, anyone who .....

by Rob Burgess

Bits and pieces for Monday 11th June

BA has launched a 30% bonus for buying Avios running to 2nd August.  The maximum 31,000 Avios will cost you £399.  This is, however, still more expensive than the current offer for buying .....

BA has launched a 30% bonus for buying Avios running to 2nd August.  The maximum 31,000 Avios will cost .....

by Rob Burgess

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