News You May Have Missed at Points Well Made - 5th April

Hello everyone, and welcome back! Hope you have all had great weeks.

This week has seen a supplementary card bonus from American Express, Virgin Atlantic drop another route, and a reintroduction of the Tier Point offer we saw last year from the BA Premium Plus Amex.

Avios and Nectar are offering an Easter bonus when you convert your Nectar points to Avios, we have done another Virgin Points Bargain Bin, and Helena finally feels ready to talk about her less than stellar flight home from Johannesburg with British Airways.

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Amex Is Giving Away Up to 12,000 Bonus Points for Adding a Free Supplementary Card

If you missed this the first time round, you are forgiven. American Express has once again launched boosted supplementary card bonuses for Gold and Platinum holders, but you would not know it unless you went digging. We buried it inside our article on the new March 2026 sign-up bonuses, so it deserves its own moment in the spotlight.

This is one of the easiest piles of Membership Rewards points you will ever pick up. No spending target. No extra annual fee. Just add a card and collect.

Just head on over to the article here to find out how.

Virgin Atlantic Cancels Riyadh Route, Adds Extra Flights to Montego Bay, Bengaluru and Las Vegas — Here's What It Means for Your Virgin Points

Virgin Atlantic has confirmed what many suspected was coming, their London Heathrow to Riyadh route is done. Permanently.

In an email to affected customers, the airline said: "Following the escalation in the Middle East, we have been continuously reviewing our flying programme, based on the latest intelligence and regulatory guidance, and to ensure we can operate a stable and reliable schedule, we have taken the difficult decision to cancel our services between London Heathrow and Riyadh from 7 April."

But what does this mean for you and your Virgin Points? Where are the bargains going to be now? Head on over to the article to find out.

The BA Amex Tier Points Offer Is Back — Here's What You Need To Know

We told you they were coming back. British Airways has now confirmed the full details of this year's tier point earning offer for Premium Plus cardholders, and the good news is that the structure is identical to last year.

Enrol by 25 January 2027 and spend by 1 February 2027 to earn up to 2,500 British Airways Club tier points on card spend.

Want to know the full breakdown? Head on over to the article here to find out.

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Nectar and Avios are Running an Easter Bonus This April, and It Works Both Ways

Avios and Nectar have teamed up to offer bonus points on conversions between the two this Easter. The promo runs until 30 April 2026, works in both directions, and the bonus you receive depends on whether you convert manually or set up auto-conversion.

Nectar is Sainsbury's loyalty scheme. You earn Nectar points on your weekly shop, at Argos, through various Nectar app offers, Esso garages, and a handful of other partners. Those points can then be converted into Avios. As we've covered before, if you do a regular Sainsbury's shop, or regularly fill up at Esso, you're could already be sitting on a small pile of potential Avios.

Head on over here to find out the details.

Virgin Atlantic – The Bargain Bin (April – June 2026)

Guess what is back? It's Bargain Bin time!!

Helena has been digging through Virgin Atlantic’s wonderfully chaotic dynamic pricing to find the redemptions that are good value… and a few that absolutely aren't! Those are at the bottom of the article if you feel the need to projectile spit your tea/wine/water over your phone/tablet/laptop/however you read our wonderful updates.

For all the best bargains, head on over here.

When British Airways Manage “To Fly” but Can’t Quite Bring Themselves “To Serve” - British Airways A380 Economy Review

This is a very different type of flight review for Helena's flight back to Heathrow from Johannesburg with British Airways in economy on the A380. Partly because it’s less of a traditional, neatly structured assessment and more of an opinion piece, but bear with her.

Having spent 8 days with zero signal, and zero worries on safari (Helena and her noble steed Polo below), she was looking forward to heading home. It isn’t often you step off a flight and feel a genuine sense of disbelief that it all actually happened. Where you half-question whether it was a sleep-deprived fever dream. In this case, it wasn’t. The notes, taken diligently throughout the journey, confirm that every moment, frustrating, baffling, and at times outright disappointing, was entirely real.

To read this very different flight review, head on over here.

Sam

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