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Both my wife and I have hit our £15k target to unlock two companion vouchers — me on the black card, her on the blue.
We still have a few months before our card years restart.
If we are able to book using her companion voucher (and pay with the blue card, which we would need to), would it be possible to then cancel her blue card and open a fresh account (black card, say) and start towards the £15k on that one immediately?
Certainly possible, but reaccepptance is not guaranteed.
You don’t need to pay with the card that earned the voucher, any Amex will do.
Needs to be the same cardholder though, IIRC, and it’s the only Amex she has.
Sounds like a gamble… anyone had any experience of doing this?
It can be anyone’s Amex, there’s no requirement for it to belong to someone on the booking.
It can be anyone’s Amex, there’s no requirement for it to belong to someone on the booking.
Interesting. On a booking we made last year, we bought return legs separately when available but were unable to add hers to the companion voucher and get half the Avios returned. I wonder why.
It can be anyone’s Amex, there’s no requirement for it to belong to someone on the booking.
Interesting. On a booking we made last year, we bought return legs separately when available but were unable to add hers to the companion voucher and get half the Avios returned. I wonder why.
If I understand correctly what you mean, that’s nothing to do with whose credit card is used to pay the fees. The voucher can only be used on Avios bookings made from the BA account of the voucher holder, so it’s expected that an agent wouldn’t be able to refund half the Avios from another person’s account.
It can be anyone’s Amex, there’s no requirement for it to belong to someone on the booking.
While is theoretically and technically possible, I don’t think it’s really what they want you to be doing within the terms and it’s certainly not exactly an advisable route to follow.
If I understand correctly what you mean, that’s nothing to do with whose credit card is used to pay the fees. The voucher can only be used on Avios bookings made from the BA account of the voucher holder, so it’s expected that an agent wouldn’t be able to refund half the Avios from another person’s account.
It was the same BA account. I believe they refused to refund half of the rerurn leg because she used two different cards (her blue for the outward, my black for the return)…
I think there are two subtleties here.
1. Amex don’t name check transactions so you can use any card, but as @JDB points out using someone else’s may be questionable even though it does work.
2. BA agents don’t know what card earned a given voucher, but by definition if two cards are used then they know one of them did not, which raises the risk of complications.
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