REGISTER NOW: British Airways launches a new ‘double Avios’ points promotion for the Autumn

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British Airways has launched a new ‘double Avios’ offer for the Autumn.

This could prove lucrative but, as often with these offers, has the potential to backfire due to intriguing small print.

The sign up page for the offer is here. If you had trouble earlier, it is now working.

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The offer is simple on the face of it:

You earn double base Avios (excluding cabin and status bonuses) on your next 10 BA flights

The offer runs until the end of 2018

It only applies to new bookings made after you register

Looking at the small print, the offer is also valid on American Airlines, Iberia and Finnair flights when travelling between Europe and North America on a BA flight number. Don’t be fooled by the comment at the top of the landing page that AA, Iberia and Finnair flights to North Ameria count – the terms and conditions say they do not, unless there is a BA flight number on your boarding pass.

The offer is also valid on Comair-operated BA services in Southern Africa.

However, apart from the exceptions above, no other BA codeshare or franchise flight will count. You won’t get double Avios on, for example, a Bangkok Airways, Qatar Airways, Vueling or Flybe flight with a BA flight number.

Here’s the snag though ….

You only get double Avios on your first 10 segments.

If you have a number of long-haul flights coming up before the end of the year, you don’t want to use up your 10 flight allowance too quickly. This means, bizarrely, you may want to consider moving some short-haul flights away from British Airways. This will preserve your 10 flight ‘double Avios’ allowance for long-haul flights which will be far more lucrative.

You can register for double Avios 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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marcw says:

27 Sep27 September 15:23

I’m confused… the small print says “qualifying flight: A Qualifying flight is either a one-way (single sector) or a return flight (two sectors) between the point of departure and final destination with no scheduled change of aircraft that must be booked after the Member has registered.” Does that mean if I book EDI-LHR-JFK rtrn it’s not a qualifying flight, because it has 4 sectors?
Pascal says:

27 Sep27 September 15:51

Booked NYC Returns 3 days too early 🙁
js54156 says:

27 Sep27 September 16:03

OT — anyone knows what FX rate Curve uses? Looks like the rate between GBP and USD remains 1.317 unchanged these days, which is apparently different from the interbank rate found online. Could anyone test it? Thanks!
- Rob says:
  
  27 Sep27 September 16:12
  
  CEO told me it was the interbank rate, same as Revolut. Whether that it real-time interbank at the time of purchase or time of clearing I don’t know.
  - js54156 says:
    
    27 Sep27 September 16:19
    
    Thanks Rob! I did a few trials yesterday as well as today, all with the same rate. When they just launched this 0% fx feature it was the real-time rate at the time of purchase.
  - Genghis says:
    
    27 Sep27 September 16:57
    
    It can’t be clearing as they lock in an exchange rate once you make the purchase.
    - js54156 says:
      
      27 Sep27 September 17:29
      
      That’s correct. I guess I’m having a slightly higher rate probably because I’ve used up the £500 monthly limit for the free card. The strange thing is that it’s supposed to be 1% fee then, but I was charged roughly 0.5%.
- the_real_a says:
  
  27 Sep27 September 18:29
  
  For supported currencies they use https://currencylayer.com/ – although im not sure how to check the rates.
  
  For non-supported currencies they use the MasterCard rate.
Russ says:

27 Sep27 September 16:28

The irony. Just booked BA flights paid for by BA. They really do care.
Alan says:

27 Sep27 September 16:54

Another really annoying BA offer where its only valid post-registration. Especially annoying that I made booking on the 25th so too late to cancel and rebook 😉
GabeS says:

27 Sep27 September 18:09

Would the registration apply to all your household account members?
- John says:
  
  28 Sep28 September 04:43
  
  No
Neil Mac says:

27 Sep27 September 18:47

Wow, I have exactly 10 flights booked with BA between now and the end of the year, all booked within the last couple of weeks, so I assume precisely none of those will qualify for this offer. That’s very disappointing.
- Shoestring says:
  
  27 Sep27 September 20:04
  
  But you lot are asking the impossible/ unlikely/ illogical. You need to register to use the promotion. Flights booked before the promotion launched? You didn’t register, you won’t get the extra points.
  
  The idea is to incentivise new bookings, not reward existing bookings with a bit extra.
The Original Nick says:

27 Sep27 September 20:39

Booked flights last night to Madrid so quite annoyed
- Chris L says:
  
  27 Sep27 September 21:39
  
  You can cancel bookings made within 24h
  - Jeremy says:
    
    28 Sep28 September 09:31
    
    We would all be incentivised to keep using BA if they rewarded our ongoing loyalty in booking flights with them even when there isn’t a promotion if they gave us a nice few bonus Avios for existing flights. Instead, we just feel punished for our loyalty.
    - Shoestring says:
      
      28 Sep28 September 10:05
      
      Then you don’t understand marketing – as The Economist says: marketing = a smart word for selling
    - Marcw says:
      
      28 Sep28 September 11:25
      
      The don’t need to incentivise you as you re already loyal 🙂
      Who knows whether you will be in the future…