Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
Launched in February 2022, the Barclayard Avios Mastercards offer an exciting way to collect Avios from a non-American Express credit card.
You may choose to get a Barclays Avios Mastercard to use alongside a British Airways American Express card, where Amex is not accepted, or to replace it.
The Barclaycard Avios cards come with an annual British Airways upgrade voucher if you hit a spend target, which is especially valuable for solo travellers or, to use alongside a BA Amex companion voucher, families of three.
The free Barclaycard Avios Mastercard comes with a sign-up bonus of 5,000 Avios and earns 1 Avios per £1. You earn the upgrade voucher with £20,000 of annual spend. You can apply here.
The paid-for Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard comes with a sign-up bonus of 25,000 Avios and earns 1.5 Avios per £1. You earn the upgrade voucher with £10,000 of annual spend. You can apply here.
Even if you plan to hold the free card for the long term, we recommend starting with the paid card – due to the huge 25,000 Avios – and then downgrading once you have triggered the bonus.
Our review of the free Barclaycard Avios Mastercard is here.
Our review of the paid-for Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard is here.
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11 May 202311 May 2023 • 17 comments
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24 Apr 202324 April 2023 • 22 comments
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On Monday, Barclaycard launched a massive promotion on its two Avios-earning Barclaycard Avios Mastercard credit cards. The paid-for card comes with a bonus of 50,000 Avios (usually 25,000 Avios). The .....
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19 Apr 202319 April 2023 • 25 comments
Barclaycard has brought back its astonishing sign-up deal on its new Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard. If you apply by 30th May via this link you will receive 50,000 Avios when you spend £3,000 .....
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17 Apr 202317 April 2023 • 185 comments
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17 Apr 202317 April 2023 • 71 comments
The two Barclaycard Avios credit cards come with an annual Avios upgrade voucher. The free Barclaycard Avios credit card, reviewed here, comes with a voucher when you spend £20,000. The paid-for .....
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Barclaycard shook up the UK credit card market in 2022 when it launched its two Avios credit cards. Notwithstand their creaky IT, we have seen some exceptional benefits: Our review of the free .....
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7 Apr 20237 April 2023 • 59 comments
This is our review of the new (launched 2022) Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard credit card. It is part of our series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether or .....
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4 Apr 20234 April 2023 • 61 comments
This is our review of the new (launched 2022) free Barclaycard Avios Mastercard credit card. It is part of our series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether or .....
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3 Apr 20233 April 2023 • 46 comments
In March 2022, Barclays launched two brand new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard credit cards. These cards should fundamentally change your Avios collecting strategy if you are based in the UK. The .....
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