1,000 bonus Avios for Tesco conversion now extended to avios.com AND BAEC

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this article which described a new Tesco / British Airways promotion.

British Airways is offering 1,000 bonus Avios if you convert at least £5 of Tesco Clubcard vouchers to British Airways Executive Club and you have not done a similar conversion since 29th April 2012.

Since most Head for Points readers convert to BA, this promotion was not hugely useful.

A second version has now appeared, though.

Avios.com is also offering 1,000 bonus Avios if you convert £5 or more of Tesco vouchers to avios.com before 30th June and you have not done a similar conversion since 29th April 2012.

If you usually convert your Clubcard vouchers to ba.com, you may want to have second thoughts this quarter. Why not send them to avios.com instead? You will need to open an account at avios.com if you don’t already have one, but this can be done very quickly. As soon as your Avios have posted, you can move them to British Airways via ‘Combine My Avios’.

Full details can be found here.

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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British Airways and Avios, Tesco Clubcard

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idrive says:

23 May23 May 16:58

@Andy, I did not notice i duplicate your feeling of being stupid 🙂

Yes, there is a difference

you can convert directly to:
-Avios->avios.com
-BA->Ba.com/Executive club
if you check in your Clubcard preferences you will see the optiions.

I used to have automatic conversion to BA before, then switched off last quater and now received vouchers on Clubcard which I want to switch to get the 1000 bonus.
As said, i find the conversion from Clubcard voucher to avios.com complicated!

In your case, you might enjoy the double bonus as Raffles already replied above

“Raffles says:
May 23, 2013 at 9:05 am
Yes, don’t see why not (assuming you’ve not converted to either in past year)”
Neil says:

23 May23 May 23:29

So wait, I’m still not clear. If I were to go for this bonus 1,000 avios now to either BAEC or Avios.com. Should a CC conversion bonus come along in the near future, would I be able to take advantage of it for the OTHER scheme than the one I used for this bonus?

I know this is a hypothetical question but is any limitation be enforced on the Tesco side (i.e. you have recently converted CC points TO Avios.BAEC) or on the BAEC/Avios side (i.e. you have recently converted FROM CC to us).

Surely if the limit wasn’t on the Tesco side then you could take this bonus and if a conversion bonus comes along simply convert to the opposite scheme…
If that makes sense!
- Rob says:
  
  24 May24 May 07:02
  
  To be honest, only once can I remember a transfer bonus which was restricted to first time transferers. In general, like the Virgin one last quarter, they are not restricted. Doing this 1k promo is unlikely to block you from anything later.
idrive says:

24 May24 May 09:34

Raffles, last quater I had BAEX autoconvert and disabled it to get vouchers instead, on 4th May.
Reading and reading again what you wrote…does it mean I can apply to both BAEX bonus and Avios bonus NOW? so far I though it meant: “if you had not EVER converted in the past”.
- Rob says:
  
  24 May24 May 11:18
  
  By ‘ever’ they mean ‘since 29 April 2012’. It seems you have done a BA conversion so you can’t get that bonus. However, you would still get the avios.com bonus if you have an account there and haven’t converted in a year.
idrive says:

24 May24 May 11:28

right, 29/04/2012! I am so stressed out, read 2013! thank you!!
Bialynia says:

25 May25 May 04:46

I went for the BAEC bonus offer the other day and the 1200 Avios for the exchanged £5 in clubcard points were added to my account but there’s no sign of the 1000 Avios bonus. Has this been everyone else’s experience? If so I’ll just wait patiently.
- Rob says:
  
  25 May25 May 06:53
  
  Yes, no-one has them yet
Matt says:

25 May25 May 23:24

Silly question. I’m new to Tesco clubcard, well I have one, but purely for these offers.

£5 of clubcard points. Is that the same as 500 clubcard points?

I have a whole bunch of 25 point vouchers to use. Hoping to do a big shop and use these along with my double points voucher to rack up enough for these bonus points. Will my plan work, or am I missing something?

Cheers
- Rob says:
  
  26 May26 May 06:59
  
  Yes, references to £5 of points means 500 points.
  
  However ….
  
  1. The 25 point vouchers you have received will, once used, not be turned into Clubcard vouchers until August when the next set of statements is posted out. You won’t be able to take advantage of this 1,000 Avios promotion as it will have finished by August.
  
  2. Double points coupons only double base points. They do not double coupons.
del says:

26 May26 May 14:09

I have signed up for an avios account (having used the Tesco/BAEC route before) but I am unable to “find” the offer on either website.
Do I need to click through the advert or will I still get the bonus if I make a £5 transfer in the usual way?
Thanks
- Rob says:
  
  26 May26 May 14:50
  
  There is certainly no special link to use, so just transfer normally.
sarah says:

30 May30 May 18:21

I think I’ll chance £5 worth to see if I get this. I have transferred CC to BAEC in the last week but have never transferred to Avios. So… if I transfer over now, they will automatically open me an Avios account and then at a later date I can merge those points into my BAEC?
- richie says:
  
  30 May30 May 18:38
  
  correct