1,000 bonus Avios for a Clubcard conversion IF you’ve not converted for a year

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British Airways has launched a tiny bribe to encourage people to convert their Tesco Clubcard vouchers to Avios points this quarter.

If you convert £5 or more of Tesco Clubcard vouchers to Avios (via British Airways Executive Club) before 30th June, you will receive a bonus of 1,000 Avios points.

The terms and conditions are slightly contradictory. They start off by saying:

“1000 Avios bonus offer is open to customers who have not previously exchanged Clubcard vouchers for Avios”

but carry on to say:

“Customers who have exchanged Clubcard vouchers since 29 April 2012 are not eligible for the bonus but will earn standard Avios.”

The latter is presumably correct.

It is unlikely that many Head for Points readers will qualify for this promotion, but if you usually convert your vouchers to avios.com then it would make sense to convert them via British Airways Executive Club this quarter. You can combine Avios points across the two schemes by using ‘Combine My Avios’ under ‘My Account’ on the BA website.

Full details of this promotion can be found at ba.com but you must be logged in. Look under ‘Executive Club Offers’ under the ‘Executive Club’ tab.

How to earn Avios points from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (December 2021)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards. Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

British Airways BA Amex American Express card

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up, no annual fee and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending ….. Read our full review

British Airways BA Premium Plus American Express Amex credit card

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the UK’s most valuable credit card perk – the 2-4-1 companion voucher Read our full review

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points, such as:

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & two airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

30,000 points and an unbeatable set of travel benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital On Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios:

Capital On Tap Business Rewards Visa

The most generous Avios Visa or Mastercard for a limited company Read our full review

You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus:

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

(Want to earn more Avios? Click here to visit our home page for our latest articles on earning and spending your Avios points and click here to see how to earn more Avios this month from offers and promotions.)

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Alan says:

14 May14 May 23:38

Not a bad deal – although £5 of CC vouchers also = £20 of Pizza Express or Prezzo vouchers which are even worth a little more if you value Avios at a penny each.
- Sir Stamford says:
  
  15 May15 May 00:29
  
  £5 CC voucher = 1,200 Avios + 1,000 bonus Avios = 2,200 Avios
  
  Even if you value them at 1p each, you are getting £22 worth which is more than the £20 Pizza Express or Prezzo voucher – unless I am missing something?
  
  Sir Stamford
  - Alan says:
    
    15 May15 May 10:31
    
    Oops! Sorry no idea where my figures came from – I’d been reading lots of replies to threads on my phone and had it in my mind that it was 1,800 Avios including bonus! Agree for a fiver it’s worth converting (assuming no loss of future substantial bonus, a slight unknown), but for higher amounts there’s perhaps better value elsewhere in CC exchanges – I’ve found the magazine ones can be quite good value as well. All are vastly better than Nectar points though!!
Max says:

15 May15 May 12:16

Can I open a new accounts (Tesco CC and BAEC) in my OH’s name and get the Avios bonus that way?
- Trevor says:
  
  15 May15 May 12:38
  
  Not likely… You can by all means open new accounts in another name (whatever OH is) and use them in future, but since you would need to already have at least £5 in CC vouchers and the new account would have none, it would be a bit difficult to transfer. You could well earn at least £5 worth of vouchers on your next Clubcard statement, but that will only be in late July, while this promotion ends 30 June.
  - Max says:
    
    15 May15 May 20:18
    
    Thanks for the clarification Trevor
PT says:

16 May16 May 11:21

Did the minimum £5 transfer. Standard Avios not completed but the bonus 1000 pts not yet showing. T&Cs say both will appear within 28 days.

Will sit and wait….
PT says:

16 May16 May 11:22

* now completed
Joe says:

19 May19 May 19:43

In here it says I need to convert to BAEC – Avios on the Clubcard website, but in the Ts&Cs on BAEC website it says “To convert your Clubcard vouchers into Avios simply go to Tesco.com/Rewards and select Avios and click ‘Exchange now.'” Which is correct?
- Rob says:
  
  19 May19 May 21:55
  
  This is a BA promotion so you need to select the BA option at tesco.com/rewards
  - The_Pope says:
    
    20 May20 May 11:07
    
    Does that mean if you haven’t converted to BAEC Avios then you are eligible?
    
    Rather than Clubcard to Avios Avios in the past year?
    - Rob says:
      
      20 May20 May 11:41
      
      Yes
Londonbus says:

21 May21 May 00:25

I received this email today.

BA are sloppy. I have convered during the last 12 months and so am ineligble. However, this is criteria is buried at the bottom of the email.

BA are encouraging me to apply for something I can’t have. Receipt for customer uinhappiness..
- Rob says:
  
  21 May21 May 06:45
  
  Agreed. I have always hated the way BA does this. They KNOW who does and does not qualify, so why send blanket emails to everyone?
Simon says:

21 May21 May 21:05

I got an email from avios.com with the same offer as the BA one today.
- Rob says:
  
  21 May21 May 22:07
  
  Yes I got this. This is more interesting as fewer people convert to Avios. Will do a post on Thursday.
  - Trevor says:
    
    21 May21 May 22:46
    
    Interesting… I’ve received emails to each of 3 Avios accounts – 2 the same just reminding me to transfer now that the latest Clubcard statement is out, and the other saying in a draw for 100k Avios for already converting. No mention of a conversion bonus to any, though if time-limited like the BAEC offer, then no accounts qualify anyway.
Gabbai says:

21 May21 May 22:27

Can I convert £5 to BAEC and get the 1000 point bonus and then convert another £5 to Avios and get the bonus again? Is the “once only rule” from Tesco or from BA and Avios?