Companion voucher issue date advice please

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I have a BA free Avios Amex Card which is close to the 12,000 trigger point for Companion Voucher , the issue is the flights I intend to book are for 1st November 2025, and as we know the threshold increases on this date to 15,000 points.
If I make a final purchase on my card on 31st October, will the Companion Voucher be dated from this date, thus unable to use it for my intended single route flight in 1st Nov 2025, or will the issue date be after or on 1st Nov 2024, allowing its use without having to spend a further £3000 ?

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You would need to credit the, currently lower, required amount and for it to register on your account before 01.11.24.

Imho making the final purchase on 31st October would be very risky. Whilst funds may be earmarked for the charge different retailers and organisations can bill in different ways. There’s a high chance that the actual charge won’t be submitted before days end. Whilst technically you seeing the charge in the app and funds deducted there are numerous banking technicalities that could mean that Amex’s systems haven’t actually registered it as a charge on the account until 1-4 days later.

Amex ( UK) have earned their good standing in customer relations so tbh even if this happened I’d expect them to let it slide and adjust things once they’ve seen you technically hit the spend needed but that’s unnecessary time spent to do so and whilst unlikely imho there would be risk that they could refuse based on the above.

Issue date is when you’re spend registers on the system and that’s subject to above. It really will be a case of ‘which do you want’. OB travel has to be by expiry date as you’ve picked up on yourself but any voucher yet to be triggered by 00:02 1st November will become subject to the higher threshold. That part will undoubtedly already be programmed into their systems both front and backend.