Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
There are two American Express cards that let you earn Avios directly: the free British Airways American Express card and the paid-for British Airways Premium Plus card.
If you are committed to British Airways, the Premium Plus Amex card is your best choice. It comes with a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus and a 2-4-1 companion voucher that could save you up to 200,000 Avios on your next flight redemption.
This article explains how to use the BA 2-4-1 companion voucher you earn on the British Airways American Express cards.
You can read our full review of the British Airways American Express card here and our British Airways Premium Plus American Express card review here.
You can apply for the free card here (5,000 Avios bonus) and the Premium Plus card here (30,000 Avios bonus).
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9 Aug 20159 August 2015 • 48 comments
Less than a month after the previous sign-up offer ended, American Express has again increased the sign-up bonuses on the two British Airways American Express credit cards. This time the offer comes .....
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16 Jul 201516 July 2015 • 61 comments
If you have a British Airways American Express card and are opted into emails, you should have received details yesterday of a tie-up between online hotel booker Kaligo.com and American Express. It is .....
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9 Jul 20159 July 2015 • 58 comments
In Part 1 of Holiday Tips yesterday, I looked at ways to earn points when booking airport car parking. Today I want to provide an updated look at the best ways to earn points when using your credit .....
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8 Jul 20158 July 2015 • 50 comments
News in brief: New American Express cashback deals launched A new batch of statement credit deals may have hit your BA Amex, SPG Amex, Amex Gold or Amex Platinum online account over the weekend. These .....
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9 Jun 20159 June 2015 • 27 comments
If you registered for the ‘£10 cashback when you spend £30 on amazon.co.uk’ offer two weeks ago, you have until Tuesday evening to spend your £30. Remember that you do not need to buy .....
If you registered for the ‘£10 cashback when you spend £30 on amazon.co.uk’ offer two weeks ago, .....
8 Jun 20158 June 2015 • 25 comments
American Express has launched a new cashback deal in association with the Post Office – and a pretty generous one at that. I wrote back in April about how the Post Office had begun to accept .....
American Express has launched a new cashback deal in association with the Post Office – and a pretty .....
1 Jun 20151 June 2015 • 90 comments
American Express has, literally, just launched a very generous new promotion in association with amazon.co.uk. Only 8,000 Amex cards can be registered for this offer. The regular readers of Head for .....
American Express has, literally, just launched a very generous new promotion in association with amazon.co.uk. .....
21 May 201521 May 2015 • 149 comments
If you had begun to think that the American Express statement credit deals were getting rather too eclectic (Plenish Cleanse? Paper London?), the good news is that a new raft of deals was launched .....
If you had begun to think that the American Express statement credit deals were getting rather too eclectic .....
28 Apr 201528 April 2015 • 92 comments
As of last Friday, American Express has increased the sign-up bonuses on the two British Airways American Express cards. The Premium Plus version, with the £150 annual fee, now offers 25,000 Avios .....
As of last Friday, American Express has increased the sign-up bonuses on the two British Airways American .....
26 Apr 201526 April 2015 • 47 comments
In one swoop, the Post Office has become the largest retail network in the UK to accept American Express cards. As of last week, all 11,500 Post Office branches in the UK are accepting Amex for .....
In one swoop, the Post Office has become the largest retail network in the UK to accept American Express .....
13 Apr 201513 April 2015 • 93 comments
The British Airways credit card contract was up for renewal recently. I don’t know when the current deal was ending – the only bit of news I managed to find out in advance was that IAG .....
The British Airways credit card contract was up for renewal recently. I don’t know when the current .....
27 Mar 201527 March 2015 • 12 comments
People who drift into this odd hobby of ours often apply for a couple of credit or charge cards almost at random, perhaps because they were on promotion or because they didn’t know any .....
People who drift into this odd hobby of ours often apply for a couple of credit or charge cards almost at .....
22 Mar 201522 March 2015 • 81 comments
I have written before about the range of American Express gift cards. They were not, to be honest, fantastic value. However, they are now looking VERY INTERESTING if you have a spending target to hit .....
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13 Feb 201513 February 2015 • 102 comments
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