Send your children on the British Airways work experience scheme

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If you have a child at school or sixth form college (not university), British Airways is currently accepting applications for its Summer 2019 work experience scheme.

Positions are available at Heathrow (customer facing, operations, engineering, Waterside HQ), Gatwick (customer facing and engineering), Glasgow (engineering) and Cardiff (engineering). There is also a gliding scholarship in High Wycombe available.

There were 600 roles offered in 2018 and BA is promising to increase the number in 2019 as part of its 100th birthday celebrations. Each placement lasts for five days and will require a week off school.

You can find out more on the British Airways careers website here. The deadline to apply is Friday.

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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rob says:

19 Dec19 December 09:13

Question about the Amex Travel portal:

I’m looking at hotels and I know some of the OTA’s from experience include all associated costs and fees for a hotel globally (not including resort fees) but I get the impression Amex travel does not include these on it’s hotel bookings. Am I correct? They allude to the fact that there may be other fees from the hotel when booking.

Another quick question: Are we 100% sure hotel chains (specifically Hilton) will not honour status benefits when booking indirectly?

Thanks
- Stuart_f says:
  
  19 Dec19 December 10:15
  
  “Are we 100% sure hotel chains (specifically Hilton) will not honour status benefits when booking indirectly?”
  
  Booked the Hilton Vienna Plaza as part of a BA Holiday package while being HHonors Diamond. Total refusal to grant any benefits. Lovely hotel though, really enjoyed it.
- Louise says:
  
  19 Dec19 December 10:38
  
  Historically Hiton Bournemouth granted me Diamond benefits (upgrade and exec lounge) when i booked via Amex
- jc says:
  
  19 Dec19 December 10:47
  
  In my experience it’s worth asking the hotel to add your membership number to the booking… they often (75%?) honour some kind of upgrade if eligible; but it’s rare (30%?) that they honour breakfast; and I don’t think I’ve ever earned points on the room rate.
Jtz says:

19 Dec19 December 09:24

OT I am thinking to upgrade to plat sometime soon, does anyone know how long hilton gold will last if I link it on 1st Jan?
Would love to know some specific dates to cancel, so I can do the spend asap and get the most of status.
I also have 500MR points on 600spend , will this follow through if I upgrade to plat and include it in the 1000 spend?
Thanks
- Anna says:
  
  19 Dec19 December 09:57
  
  Re the first bit, just checking it’s the charge card you’re upgrading! It’s my understanding that gold status lasts until the end of the March following the first 12 months of status, so 31/3/20 for you. I upgraded at the start of the year and there was a special offer of an extra year’s status; I have an email from Hilton stating that my gold status is valid until 31/3/20 also.
- Rob says:
  
  19 Dec19 December 10:53
  
  If lucky, March 2021. If not, March 2020.
  - Jtz says:
    
    19 Dec19 December 11:07
    
    Thanks
    Yep charge card
    When would the best date to cancel be to receive plat, use it and upgrade in the shortest amount of time?
    Wondering how long Amex take to send out cards
  - Adrian says:
    
    19 Dec19 December 14:13
    
    Rob, from what I’ve read on FT I’d expect it to be march 2020, doesn’t it flip to 2021 half way through the year, so completing a challenge in July 19 should get you status until end march 21? Let me know if I’ve got this wrong.
    - Rob says:
      
      19 Dec19 December 15:33
      
      Could well be, that does ring a bell somewhere in the back of my head to be honest.
Max says:

19 Dec19 December 09:26

Can you use two credit cards with Amex Travel on the same booking?

So £400 off £1200?
- Jay says:
  
  19 Dec19 December 10:13
  
  +1 – I have an £1800 booking and would be good to know if i can use 3 cards in a single transaction without having to try and mess with booking single days here and there.
- Ronster says:
  
  19 Dec19 December 11:04
  
  +1
  
  Good morning everyone
  
  I wonder if you rang them up and enquired if you could use both your cards, where the offers are on, to get £400 of £1200?
  
  Does anyone have any experience of this?
  
  Ronster
Vasco says:

19 Dec19 December 10:44

OT: Will be starting a new job in the new year where I’ll be doing a significantly larger amount of work travel. While I have checked that I would be allowed to book a hotel directly and then expense it, the preferred method is to use the work travel agent (Key Travel in this case) to book.

Does anyone have any datapoints regarding using this or any other corporate travel agents to book hotels, in terms of elite credits, benefits, and points?
- Sussex Bantam says:
  
  19 Dec19 December 11:43
  
  I’ve never had a problem getting credits, benefits or points with a work booking through our travel agent. The issue is persuading them that you REALLY need to be in a specific hotel and not the cheaper independent next door..
  - Vasco says:
    
    19 Dec19 December 12:12
    
    Thanks, I definitely *will* have discretion to choose where I stay as long as it’s under £150/night! That’s good to hear, as I thought it was a nogo!
Andrew M says:

19 Dec19 December 11:18

OT: Am I able to book an IHG reward night for a friend, and if so how? Thanks.
- Genghis says:
  
  19 Dec19 December 11:26
  
  Book online and put your friend’s name down as the second guest.
Andrew M says:

19 Dec19 December 11:21

OT. Am I able to book an IHG reward night for a friend and, if so, how? Thanks.
- Rob says:
  
  19 Dec19 December 11:27
  
  Usually OK – book for 2 adults, and then click the button during the confirmation process to add the name of the 2nd guest, and in the notes put ‘Reward night for Mr XXXXXX’.
  
  Only an issue in countries where there are laws over the guest matching the lead booker, eg some Spanish hotels can be troublesome (but I’ve also got away with this in Spain).
  - Andrew M says:
    
    19 Dec19 December 22:24
    
    Thanks both.
Heran says:

19 Dec19 December 11:30

Got the £50 off £200 offer on my Amex Rewards Credit Card.
- Jamie says:
  
  19 Dec19 December 14:35
  
  Same here
- Dale says:
  
  20 Dec20 December 14:06
  
  Word of warning – I looked at domestic flights today with BA. BA are £79 on their site – AMEX Travel are £119. Pretty much a con from Amex.
  - Thom says:
    
    20 Dec20 December 14:24
    
    Amex travel doesn’t offer hand baggage only fares which is why you are seeing a higher price. If you select a fare with a checked bag on the BA website the prices will match. Of course, if you don’t need the checked bag then absolutely – booking via amex wouldn’t make much sense for you!
Uknoobie says:

19 Dec19 December 12:10

Not seeing ANY offers recently on my Gold cards – have both the charge & the credit. Any tips on how to sort this out?
- Peter K says:
  
  19 Dec19 December 13:02
  
  Recent discussion on this topic seems to be that you need to cancel cards (maybe at the next churn) and when you next get them to add them to a DIFFERENT and NEW online account (still in your name of course). This seems to have resolved it for some. Chatting to Amex does not seem to help apparently.
  - meta says:
    
    19 Dec19 December 14:17
    
    Yes, exactly that. I am not a churner normally for BAPP or Plat, but have decided to do it after Amex refused to look into it. I haven’t had a single offer since August. Somebody suggested to remove all cards and create separate new accounts for each of your card (main and supp), but that didn’t work for me. You might want to try that. It seems this is getting more common by the comments here, so Amex should really look into this.