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.
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 .....
This is our review of the new (launched 2022) Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard credit card. It is part of our .....
4 Apr 20234 April 2023 • 60 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 .....
This is our review of the new (launched 2022) free Barclaycard Avios Mastercard credit card. It is part of our .....
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 .....
In March 2022, Barclays launched two brand new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard credit cards. These cards should .....
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It has been known for some time that Barclaycard was planning to offer an Avios alternative to the annual upgrade voucher you can earn from the two Barclaycard Avios credit cards and Barclays Premier .....
It has been known for some time that Barclaycard was planning to offer an Avios alternative to the annual .....
22 Mar 202322 March 2023 • 114 comments
We are currently running a fantastic competition – exclusive to Head for Points readers – in conjunction with Barclaycard. We have FOUR MILLION AVIOS to give away! There are four prizes of .....
We are currently running a fantastic competition – exclusive to Head for Points readers – in .....
20 Mar 202320 March 2023 • 26 comments
We are currently running a fantastic competition – exclusive to Head for Points readers – in conjunction with Barclaycard. We have FOUR MILLION AVIOS to give away! There are four prizes of .....
We are currently running a fantastic competition – exclusive to Head for Points readers – in .....
6 Mar 20236 March 2023 • 14 comments
It’s time for our annual rank of the best UK travel credit card sign-up bonuses in terms of cold hard cash. How do we value my miles and points? The biggest question mark is over the value of .....
It’s time for our annual rank of the best UK travel credit card sign-up bonuses in terms of cold hard .....
3 Mar 20233 March 2023 • 34 comments
Barclays has recently launched two new Avios-earning Barclaycard Avios Mastercard credit cards. These are very, very good products with everything you could ask for, and are easily (in my view) the .....
Barclays has recently launched two new Avios-earning Barclaycard Avios Mastercard credit cards. These are .....
1 Mar 20231 March 2023 • 2 comments
We are currently running a fantastic competition – exclusive to Head for Points readers – in conjunction with Barclaycard. We have FOUR MILLION AVIOS to give away! There are four prizes of .....
We are currently running a fantastic competition – exclusive to Head for Points readers – in .....
20 Feb 202320 February 2023 • 24 comments
Today is the start of Round 2 of our exclusive Barclaycard / Head for Points FOUR MILLION AVIOS competition. There are four separate prize draws, each covering two weeks and each offering one prize of .....
Today is the start of Round 2 of our exclusive Barclaycard / Head for Points FOUR MILLION AVIOS competition. .....
20 Feb 202320 February 2023 • 48 comments
We have launched a fantastic competition – exclusive to Head for Points readers – in conjunction with Barclaycard. We have FOUR MILLION AVIOS to give away! There are four prizes of 1 .....
We have launched a fantastic competition – exclusive to Head for Points readers – in conjunction .....
7 Feb 20237 February 2023 • 84 comments
This morning we launched our biggest ever Head for Points competition. Together with Barclaycard, we are giving away FOUR MILLION AVIOS to four lucky Head for Points readers who apply for a .....
This morning we launched our biggest ever Head for Points competition. Together with Barclaycard, we are .....
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