Membership Rewards/Amex

Quick one if you're holding the Amex Platinum. Have you used your dining credit this half of the year? If you have, lovely, carry on. If it's slipped your mind, consider this your nudge, because on 1 July it resets. Every six months the Amex Platinum gives you £200 in dining credit to spend at participating restaurants. You get £100 to spend in the UK and £100 abroad, so £400 across the year. The current half runs until 30 June, and nothing carries over into the next one, so

Wow. British Airways and Amex have announced one of the best Avios deals you're ever going to see. They're putting on a one-off return flight to New York where every seat on the aircraft is paid for in Avios alone. No taxes, no surcharges, no cash element at all, and economy starts at 25,000 Avios return, which is more than 50% off the usual Avios cost! This is all part of how they're marking 25 years of the partnership, after the million-Avios prize draw and the 25% earn bon

There have been two changes to where your Amex Membership Rewards points can go this month. Etihad Guest leaves on 22 June. ALL Accor arrived on 13 May. One out, one in. Etihad is leaving From 22 June 2026, you can no longer transfer Membership Rewards points to Etihad Guest. The rate was a simple 1:1. Etihad is undoubtedly a good airline, but it doesn't have a loyalty programme to match, for instance: cancel a reward flight now and you lose at least 25% of your miles, up to

If you're fairly new to this, or you've got a stash of Avios you're a bit scared of spending wrong, here's some good news. We've made all the mistakes for you! Most of what we know about Avios and points, we learned by getting it wrong first, and inevitably that cost us. You'll see online people claiming to have optimised every point, never wasted a voucher, and they read every word of the terms before applying. I've not always been that person, and if I'm being honest, I'd b

Wimbledon is one of those things a British summer wouldn't be the same without. Two weeks of world-class tennis, far too much Pimm's, strawberries and cream, and an atmosphere you don't get anywhere else. This year it runs from Monday 29 June to Sunday 12 July. If you've got an American Express Card in your wallet, there's a fair bit waiting for you on site at Wimbledon. I spent a day there last year going through it all, so here's what's on offer for 2026, and where the queu

American Express has unveiled a series of boosted referral bonuses across ten cards, giving existing Cardmembers and their friends the chance to earn enhanced amounts Membership Rewards points, Avios, and cashback, but only until 21 July 2026. If you've held an Amex within the past two years, this may render you ineligible for a welcome bonus on a new Amex card. You can use our Amex eligibility tool to check whether you are able to earn one of these sign up bonuses. Just a qu

After our piece the other week on the 10,000 bonus Avios for adding a free supplementary card to your BA Amex, we got a sensible question from a few readers: If I am added as a supplementary cardholder on someone else's Amex, does that count as having "held" the card? Will it stop me getting a sign-up bonus when I apply for my own? Short answer: no. Why not The Amex 24-month rule applies to primary cardholders only. A supplementary card sits on someone else's account. You are

The boosted welcome bonuses on the Amex Gold and Platinum run out on Tuesday 26 May, leaving you only four days to decide if this is your time to get one. If you currently hold, or have held an Amex in the past, but are unsure which bonuses you're eligible for, then you should check out our free Amex eligibility tool to help you out. Points Well Made is here to dish out the juicy details on miles and points, but we're not your financial advisers. Any decisions you make regard

British Airways is putting up the cash needed for Avios reward flights from 27 May 2026. The Avios required stay the same, as those already went up in December, but the cash element needed to pay the taxes and fees goes up. I literally wrote yesterday that I didn't believe BA had another foot to shoot. They had in fact kept one spare. Bookings made before 27 May hold the current price. From 27 May, you pay the new rate. So if you've got a trip in mind, you've got five days. I

From today, you can now use your BA Amex Companion Voucher on British Airways Holidays packages and get 25% of your Avios back. This doesn't change how a Companion Voucher normally works on a Reward Flight booking, it's an additional way to use it, and a temporary one, running only until 31 March 2027. So is this a feature, or an offer? Who knows. Anyway, let me run you through it. How it works You book a British Airways Holidays package on the BA Holidays website. That's a F