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ENDS TUESDAY: Get 40,000 points (converts to 40,000 Avios) PLUS £400 of travel credit with American Express Platinum!
American Express is running an exceptional deal on The Platinum Card – apply here.
You will receive £400 to spend at American Express Travel on top of the standard bonus of 40,000 Membership Rewards points – but only until Tuesday.
40,000 Membership Rewards points convert to:
- 40,000 Avios
- 40,000 Virgin Points
- 40,000 Emirates, Etihad, Flying Blue, Asia Miles, Delta, Finnair, Qantas or SAS miles
- 26,666 Singapore Airlines miles
- 80,000 Hilton Honors points
- 60,000 Marriott Bonvoy points
- 180,000 Radisson Rewards points
- 2,666 Club Eurostar points
….. and many other non-travel rewards.
You receive your £400 Amex Travel credit and 40,000 points after spending £6,000 in three months.
Whilst the annual fee is £650, this is currently refundable pro-rata if you cancel. Amex is planning to end pro-rata refunds in ‘late’ 2024 but we don’t know exactly when.
Our main article on the ‘£400 + 40,000 points’ bonus is here. Make sure you read the bit about whether or not you qualify for the bonus.
Don’t forget the other benefits of The Platinum Card:
- £300 of annual dining credit
- £100 of annual Harvey Nichols credit
- two ‘unlimited use’ Priority Pass airport lounge cards which admit four people between them
- travel and car hire insurance
- elite status with Hilton, Marriott, Radisson and Melia
- Eurostar lounge access
…. and much more.
You can apply for The Platinum Card with the special bonus on this page of the Amex website.
You must apply by Tuesday.
The representative APR is 694.9% variable, including the annual fee. The representative APR on purchases is 30.0% variable.
Travel deal of the week:
Crazy, crazy Lufthansa and SWISS 2 for 1 business class flight deals were dropped this week. If you’re lucky, you might still find some! We had Heathrow to Dubai over October half term for £660 and much, much more – in flat bed business class, remember. Readers went crazy for them.
This week’s top travel news stories:
Hyatt is to buy The Standard chain of hotels, including London above
Virgin Atlantic launches a flight and holidays sale
Get 200 free Club Eurostar points – worth £5 – for virtually no effortMarriott buy points
Qatar Airways adds an eighth daily Heathrow flight
London City Airport will add more early flights, but application for Saturday flights rejected
Delta to offer free wifi to all customers – and London is one of the first routes to get it
Qatar Airways invests in South African airline Airlink with Avios redemptions to follow
Here are the benefits of the reworked HSBC Premier World Elite Mastercard – is it worth the increased £290 fee?
Where will British Airways fly from Gatwick this winter?
Marriott adds its 36th (!) brand through a licence agreement with Sonder
What is Zing, HSBC’s new multi-currency and FX payments app?
Use Virgin Points to fly ITA Airways to Dubai for just €70 taxes, plus other long haul options
Credit card news:
Which airline credit card is best for long-term spending?
Will the Tesco credit card disqualify you from the Barclaycard Avios bonuses? Barclaycard is buying Tesco Bank in November.
How to pay your business bills with a credit card using Bluechain
What is the best use of your 40,000 points Amex Platinum sign-up bonus?
British Airways and Avios news:
How do British Airways Executive Club Household Accounts work?
Reviews:
(P)review: 25 Hours Hotel Copenhagen Paper Island, part of Accor Live Limitless – Conny visits a hotel in the week BEFORE it opens to the public, in the first pre-opening review we have ever done. How did it turn out?
Take a look inside the recently refurbished Aspire Lounge at Belfast City Airport, reviewed by Rob. Aspire is on a very good run at the moment.
Rhys heads to The Hoxton Southwark: what does this ‘lifestyle’ brand from Ennismore offer?
Hotel news:
What are Accor Live Limitless points worth? We are updating our valuation series this week.
The Graduate Cambridge is now bookable on Hilton.com – old timers may remember that this was originally a DoubleTree by Hilton hotel before Graduate Hotels bought it, and now Hilton has bought Graduate ….
Other travel news:
Redeem Virgin Points for December events at The O2 including Paul McCartney, sitting in the new Virgin Red Room box above
You can now book Virgin Australia and JetBlue redemptions online with Qatar Airways
Get a free First Class upgrade on Heathrow Express if you are Star Alliance Gold
That’s all, folks
Our latest round-up of miles and points offers closing soon is here. This list will be updated on the HfP website on Sunday.
Don’t forget to visit our forum if you have any questions relating to frequent flyer or hotel loyalty programmes or loyalty credit cards.
See you next Saturday,
Rob, Rhys and Katie @ Head for Points
