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Reminder: British Airways Visa One of Best Current Credit Card Offers

February 21, 2013

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. In the past couple of days, I’ve been talking about some great credit card bonuses including 50,000 Membership Rewards points for the American Express Premier Rewards Gold and 25,000 points for the Business Platinum Card from [...]

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Maximize Monday: Current Buy Miles Promotions – United, American, US Airways, British Airways and Avianca

February 18, 2013

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. There are several buy miles promotions from various airlines going on at the moment – including a United 40% bonus that ends today! – so we asked TPG contributor Nick Ewen to run through the options [...]

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British Airways Business Class Sale and 10% British Airways Visa Discount

February 14, 2013

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. British Airways has just launched a six-day fare sale for spring business class airfares from the US to Europe with fares starting as low as $2,816 roundtrip including all taxes and fees. This is by no [...]

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Sunday Reader Question: Advantage to Additional Cardholders Vs. Two Accounts

February 3, 2013

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. TPG reader Sue asks: “We saw you at the New York Times Travel Show and have been following your blog. My question: Is there an advantage to opening a credit card account with a subcard vs. [...]

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Sunday Reader Question: Does Britishairways.com Show Accurate American Airlines Award Availability?

February 3, 2013

TPG reader Aaron asks: “If I see award availability for a flight on AA.com and don’t see the same flight available on britishairways.com with British Airways Avios, does that mean that BA actually has less AA availability, or just that their website shows fewer flights? I’ve often noticed that for high-volume routes (NYC to Chicago, [...]

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Travel Tuesday Top 10: Benefits of the British Airways Visa

January 22, 2013

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. The British Airways Visa is one of the most lucrative travel credit cards on the market what with periodically high sign-up bonuses, a host of valuable perks and benefits, and the ability to accrue Avios in [...]

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Sunday Reader Question: Can You Transfer British Airways Avios to American Airlines Miles?

January 13, 2013

TPG reader Ann asks: “Can British Airways Avios points be transferred to American Airlines AAdvantage miles since the airliens are code share partners?  Or the reverse? For example, if one opens the BA card, could those bonus miles earned then be transferred to AA at any time? Or could an existing small AA balance be [...]

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Saturday Recap: 30% Amex Transfer Bonus to British Airways Ends Monday, American and Qatar Codeshare Agreement, Double Miles with Fairmont, Bonus Southwest Points

January 12, 2013

Here’s a recap of the interesting points and miles news from this week: 30% Amex Transfer Bonus to British Airways Ends Monday: As a reminder, the British Airways transfer bonus from American Express ends on Monday. There is no need to register as the bonus is hard coded into the transfer page at Membership Rewards. Instead of [...]

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British Airways Free Hotel Nights Promo: Worth It?

January 10, 2013

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. British Airways has teamed up with VisitBritain to offer travelers two free nights in a hotel on their next trip to the UK when they fly British Airways between now and May 31, 2013. This is [...]

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Maximize Monday: Choosing the Best Site and Credit Card for Purchasing Airfare

January 7, 2013

Update: The offer for the British Airways Visa looks to be still available publicly for the moment, though we cannot verify it since it is not one of our affiliate links. Maximize Monday is a new weekly series, where I’ll dig into different topics and offer my suggestions on how you can change your habits in order [...]

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Maximizing Travel Credit Cards Calendar Year Spending Threshold Bonuses

January 2, 2013

Update: The offer for the British Airways Visa looks to be still available publicly for the moment, though we cannot verify it since it is not one of our affiliate links. I hope everyone had a great time ringing in 2013. A new year means…a new chance to hit some spending thresholds on your travel credit cards [...]

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End Of Year Airline Miles Account Audit – Claiming Miles That Are Rightfully Yours

December 26, 2012

As the year comes to an end, and everyone is concerned about maintaining elite status, I wrote earlier this week about End of Year Hotel Point Account Audits, so today I look at how to make sure you received all the airline miles that you are due this year. Similar to hotel programs, I almost always find discrepancies in my [...]

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Sunday Reader Question: Using Avios to Upgrade on American

December 23, 2012

TPG reader Neil asks: “I came across your website while I was searching a way to use my Amex membership rewards to fly on American Airlines from Las Vegas to Miami. It seemed that transferring from Amex to BA and then using BA to upgrade on AA was the way to go.  So, I enrolled [...]

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Buy British Airways Avios For 2.8 Cents Each – Worth It?

December 22, 2012

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. You can purchase up to 24,000 Avios per account per year, and as December 31 approaches, British Airways sent out reminders to Executive Club members reminding them they have just about a week left to top [...]

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Up To $500 Off British Airways Flights With Rue La La This Week

December 17, 2012

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. Rue La La is one of my favorite discount online luxury retailers, and they also post some great travel deals from time to time. They actually used to link to several shopping portals, earning you even [...]

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Sunday Reader Question: Using the British Airways / Amex 30% Bonus for Flights to Tokyo

December 16, 2012

TPG reader Julie asks: “I’m thinking about transferring 120,000 Amex points to British Airway Avios points to travel from LAX to Tokyo.  Since BA is having their 30% promotion, do you think this is a good conversion? The lowest price I found was approx $900.00 for (2 one way tickets).” I have some good news [...]

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British Airways Offering a 25% Hotel Transfer Bonus

December 14, 2012

Now through January, 13, 2013, British Airways is offering a 25% bonus when you transfer hotel points to the British Airways Avios program. British Airways hotel partners include Starwood, Club Carlson, Marriott, Hilton, Priority Club, Hyatt, and Shangri-La. To convert points to miles, head over to the hotel partner you want to transfer from and you will [...]

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British Airways Visa 10% Flight Discount Extended Through 2013

December 12, 2012

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. As you probably know by now, the British Airways Visa bonus is back up to 100,000 Avios until February. In addition to that points bonanza, this card carries a lot of potentially valuable lesser-known perks as [...]

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Saturday Recap: American Express British Airways Transfer Bonus, Bonus SkyMiles from Hertz, Bonus Miles with Wine Clubs, 1,000 Free United Miles, Update on Hyatt Platinum Extras

December 8, 2012

Here’s a recap of the interesting points and miles news from this week: American Express 30% Transfer Bonus to British Airways: In case you missed the post from earlier this week, now through January 14, 2013, American Express cardmembers who transfer Amex Membership Rewards points to British Airways Avios  will receive a 30% bonus. The bonus [...]

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30% Amex British Airways Transfer Bonus Now Live Until January 14, 2013

December 4, 2012

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. The 30% transfer bonus from American Express Membership Rewards to British Airways Avios I wrote about a couple weeks ago has finally gone live and will be available until January 14, 2013. The bonus is, as [...]

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Travel Tuesday Top 10: Most Valuable Ways To Redeem British Airways Avios

December 4, 2012

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. The Chase British Airways Visa 100,000 Avios offer is back, offering 50,000 Avios after after $1,000 spent, an additional 25,000 after $10,000 spent and another 25,000 after a total of $20,000 spent within the first year of [...]

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British Airways Visa 50,000 Avios Offer is Back Through February 2013

November 29, 2012

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. One of the best credit card bonus offers in the points world is back! The Chase British Airways Visa is once again offering 50,000 bonus Avios for spending $1,000 within 3 months then 25,000 more bonus [...]

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Virgin Atlantic to Launch Shorthaul UK Service in Spring 2013

November 19, 2012

When British Airway’s parent group IAG acquired rival bmi (British Midland Airways) there was a lot of concern over anti-competition since British Airways essentially gobbled up one of the only competing UK airlines. Its most formidable UK competitor, Virgin Atlantic is mostly an international airline so a lot of questions arose relating to the future [...]

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25% British Airways Avios Award Discount On Long-Haul Flights

November 15, 2012

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. Now through November 19, 2012, British Airways is offering a 25% discount on Avios redemptions on British Airways long-haul flights to celebrate the 1st anniversary of Avios. The “6 Day Flight Sale” will include awards on [...]

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