50% ‘buy Avios’ bonus now on
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I’ve just had an email from BA (a 3 day flash sale) stating that if i buy Avios before 20th Nov, i’d get a bonus of 50% more.
My question is, if i subscribe to purchase the max allowed i.e. 200000 Avios, would the bonus still apply?
Essentially this would mean 300000 Avios for the price of 200000 – which is £1789 / year.
It has to be purchased through this link
https://pgt.shopping.ba.com/?utm_source=AboutAvios&utm_medium=BA&utm_campaign=default&utm_content=Purchasing
This seems on the face of it a pretty good deal, if indeed this is the case!
Thanks.
As I understand it, the 50% bonus is on single transaction purchases of Avios, not on the subscription service and only on values of 5000 Avios and above.
If you purchase 200,000 avios this way you will get a bonus of 100,000 avios making a total of 300,000 and it will cost you £3,215
If you subscribed to the 200,000 avios subscription and boosted that with a single transaction for 105,000 avios (70k + 35k bonus) it will cost you £2,924
(£1,789 + £1,135)
With the subscription service you get the points trickled to you through the year though, with the single transaction you get the points in a lump sum so can use right away.
Hope that helps
There’s a very short window on this offer (Nov 17th to 20th), do we think a devaluation is coming on Monday?!
It would be breathtakingly cynical if they then immediately devalued Avios straight after offering a bonus for purchase. It would probably also serve as grounds for unwinding the purchase transaction (you might be able to anyway for 14 days on the basis of distance sale legislation) and the close proximity between sale and devaluation might give rise to accusations of fraudulent entrapment leading to a class action court case. So no.
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