Your 500 Avios from Nectar should have posted

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If you took part in the Avios / Nectar launch promotion, take a look at your British Airways Executive Club account.

Avios was offering a bonus of 500 points if you transferred 1,600 Nectar points into Avios. These have now arrived, at least for me.

You will NOT receive the bonus if you moved 1,000 Avios to Nectar and immediately moved them back again. I’m surprised to see that BA’s IT was up to spotting that, but it did.

Triggering this bonus also triggered double base Nectar points on your shopping at Sainsbury’s up to 19th April. These points are not meant to arrive until 28 days after the end of the offer, so you should expect them in mid May.

If you are not up to speed with the new Avios / Nectar partnership, we have created a new HfP category for the articles. You can see them all by clicking here or by selecting ‘Sainsbury’s and Nectar’ from the categories menu which appears on every article page in the right-hand sidebar on the desktop site.

Core reference articles include:

How can you earn Nectar points? (Part 1 – non-financial)

How can you earn Nectar points? (Part 2 – financial)

How can you spend Nectar points?

Online transfers between Avios and Nectar remain suspended whilst site security, including 2FA, is beefed up.

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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Wally1976 says:

12 Mar12 March 08:44

Last night I tried changing the credit card on our online Morrisons grocery order for tomorrow from the BAPP card (which doesn’t have the offer) to both the 2 cards that we have with the 10% offer and both cards failed authorisation for some unknown reason. Changed it back to the BAPP card and it worked fine. I’ll try again later today.
Mikeact says:

12 Mar12 March 08:48

From today’s Mail. Might be of interest to someone.

ENJOY 10,000 NECTAR POINTS WITH YOUR FREE EQUITY RELEASE QUOTE.
- Andrew says:
  
  12 Mar12 March 09:18
  
  I might send that to my parents as a subtle suggestion 😉
  - AJA says:
    
    12 Mar12 March 13:20
    
    I’m not sure 10k NP is worth giving up the inheritance of a property. YMMV
    - TGLoyalty says:
      
      12 Mar12 March 17:36
      
      Quote …
Phil says:

12 Mar12 March 09:04

Slightly off topic….. I received my 15,000 Virgin points yesterday for switching bank accounts but how do I get the free 500 bonus points for first using the app?

Will they send me a new code soon?

Also is the app slow to track? I used it to shop at Argos last weekend and nothing is showing.
Olly says:

12 Mar12 March 09:13

I haven’t had any of these offers on my Platinum but sometimes they list later inn my account. A word about the Morrisons offer, which I did get last time and used it to go down the route of gift card hoping to buy Amazon. Morrisons had pulled their Amazon gift card due to the issues mentioned of them not being set up properly causing lots of hassle for customers. Instead I went for part Morrisons, part One4all, the latter I would not recommend as I find the terms and conditions quite prescriptive when it comes to online purchase to get the full value from them. I chose Once4all did tho their bigger acceptance footprint but until I can go in to a shop too is then I won’t bother again.
- Olly says:
  
  12 Mar12 March 09:14
  
  #a shop to use them
- TGLoyalty says:
  
  12 Mar12 March 17:38
  
  Not pulled from my local M’s bought £250 with an M’s GC only last weekend.
r* says:

12 Mar12 March 09:18

I dont currently have an airtime rewards acct but yesterday posts suggested that there is a morrisons discount on there too, if so does that mean its possible to stack the amex, virgin and airtime rewards discounts for up to 30% off? And that works on giftcards?
- MD says:
  
  12 Mar12 March 09:25
  
  Unfortunately Airtime Rewards don’t accept Amex. You can only use AR for your Visa and MCs.
  - Andrew says:
    
    12 Mar12 March 09:54
    
    True, but why use an Amex 10% offer that can’t be stacked with Airtime, PAW, or Virgin Red when there’s you could use an MBNA 15% offer, Santander 15% offer or Virgin Money 10% offer that can?
    - The real John says:
      
      12 Mar12 March 16:55
      
      Because you only have the offer on Amex?
- ChrisC says:
  
  12 Mar12 March 12:29
  
  Don’t rely on getting the morrisons offer.
  
  I’ve had airtime for a couple of months and nada for morrisons.
Mike says:

12 Mar12 March 09:34

Got mine, and I only transferred a 1000
Reney says:

12 Mar12 March 10:38

I also had a terrible experience with buying Amazon gift card last time. Too scarred to try again.

Can anyone tell me if I buy itunes gift card, redeem it on my apple account will my monthly icloud payment come off the gift card balance? Or will they carry on charging card on file? Basically do they deduct gift card balance before charging your card for regular subscriptions. Thx
- Harry T says:
  
  12 Mar12 March 10:49
  
  You have to change your preferred payment type to gift balance.
  - Reney says:
    
    12 Mar12 March 10:57
    
    perfect thx
Harry T says:

12 Mar12 March 10:40

Has anyone managed to stack Virgin flying club, airtime rewards and PAW at Morrison’s, or do they cancel each other out?

I have 6 points per pound with VFC, 10% back with airtime rewards, and 10 Wow points per pound with PAW. Would be a nice stack but if it won’t work, I’ll stick with 10% off with Amex plus the six BFC points per pound.
- Reney says:
  
  12 Mar12 March 10:59
  
  +1 interested to know but saw early comment from someone suggest maybe?
  
  do you have the virgin credit card? I have 10% back for spending over £30 on my virgin card. But no flight club points.