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Get 8,000 Avios with an excellent The Wine Flyer deal

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The Wine Flyer, the Avios-run wine retailer, has brought back the bonus offer it ran last week but which we only posted about in the last few hours before it expired! If you read HfP by email then you never saw it.

Not only is it back, but it is improved.

You can earn 8,000 Avios with a £125 spend on anything you like. Postage is free and, unlike the deal last week, you don’t need to spend the £125 on a case. You can pick anything you like.

The American Express part of this deal ends on Friday 15th December (EDIT: Now over!)

To make the most of this deal you need access to two deals:

  • 4,000 bonus Avios for spending £125 at The Wine Flyer using code FESTIVE – the expiry date is 17th December, or whenever 5,000 codes have been redeemed if sooner
  • 4,000 bonus Avios for spending £125+ on your British Airways American Express Card – you MUST opt-in to this offer, it is not automatic – the expiry date for this is 15th December

You need to opt in to the American Express bonus via the ‘Offers’ page of the Amex app or website BEFORE making your purchase. You are looking for this:

8000 Avios with champagne trio

How do you get the offer?

It’s easy enough. Head to The Wine Flyer website, put £125 of items in your cart (UK delivery is free) and add code ‘FESTIVE’. The extra 4,000 Avios will show immediately.

Remember to pay with the British Airways American Express card you registered for the 2nd 4,000 Avios offer. Because you are spending over £125 this bonus will trigger, with the 4,000 Avios being added to your next American Express statement.

In total, you are paying £125 for whatever wine, champagne or spirits you choose, delivered to your door, plus 8,000 Avios. 4,000 Avios will arrive immediately and the additional 4,000 Avios will come with your next American Express statement. You can’t argue with that.

If you want to combine both offers, I suggest you order today. The American Express offer ends on 15th December.


How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2025)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

Barclaycard Avios Plus card

Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard

Get 25,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £10,000 Read our full review

Barclaycard Avios card

Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

Get 5,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £20,000 Read our full review

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

30,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending £15,000 Read our full review

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 30,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

80,000 bonus points and great travel benefits – for a large 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, and the standard card is FREE. Capital on Tap cards also have no FX fees.

Capital on Tap Visa

NO annual fee, NO FX fees and points worth 1 Avios per £1 Read our full review

Capital on Tap Pro Visa

10,500 points (=10,500 Avios) plus good benefits Read our full review

There is also a British Airways American Express card for small businesses:

British Airways American Express Accelerating Business

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

American Express Business Platinum

50,000 points when you sign-up and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year 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.

Comments (114)

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  • Misty says:

    Thank you for this reminder. I did have the email but had forgotten about it. Thought the offer would be maxed out, but managed to get the 3 x champagne deal, for Xmas. Happy Days.

  • Misty says:

    4625 immediately into account. I’m wondering if this amount is boostable (is that a real word?) but now the Buying Avios part of my account has stopped functioning.

  • David says:

    So- the reference to the DUP wasn’t accurate, wine flyer has confirmed that, supermarket points can’t be awarded to alcohol sales in Northern Ireland, I know this to be so from purchases at Tesco. No point in ordering from them for me, as it was the points that were attractive, not the price of the wine.

    • Erico1875 says:

      Interesting. Scotland also has a law against multi buy offers on alcohol

    • Sentosa says:

      I had the offer of spend £125 or more and get 4,000 Avios.
      I duly made an order of £129 99
      I live in Northern Ireland, but the wine is being delivered to my son in London.
      Just checked and I have only been given 650 Avios.
      Does this mean I won’t get the 4,000 Bonus as I live in Northern Ireland ??

      • Rob says:

        Did you add the FESTIVE code? The 4000 should have shown in the total when you placed the order.

        • Sentosa says:

          I did Rob, thanks.
          When I made the order 650 Avios landed in my account immediately.
          I have just this morning had an email from Amex confirming I will get 4,000 Avios within the next 30 days, so fingers crossed.

  • Misty says:

    Thank G. Just need to be able to get into my account.

  • Tristan E says:

    I second the advice to check the prices – some of the high-end claret is more than double what it’s going for elsewhere, even factoring in tax. Nevertheless, even for us lowly free BA AMEX holders, this is a great way to stock up for Christmas!

  • Mutley says:

    I used there best selling whites, as raffle prizes at my sons school, and as presents to relatives I don’t like, uniformly terrible stuff, but at 8000 Avios a cracking wheeze.

  • john says:

    Surely nobody would be stupid enough to load the offer to their wife’s card, but then complete the purchase using their own card, with no offer ?? Nobody except me; my only excuse being that I was slightly rushed.

  • Aquarius12 says:

    Excellent result on this 4760 Avios for £133 spend. BAPP card has also triggered the 4,000 Avios offer saved on card and also a 2,500 Avios offer – from reading comments I am presuming that when I upgraded from the basic free British Airways card to the premium card a couple of weeks ago it retained the original offer as well as a new offer – giving me both. So 4760+4000+2500 + 133 x 1.5 for card spend = 11,460 Avios – happy days – if valuing Avios at 1p = £20 net spend on my wine – Happy Christmas !

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