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100,000 Mile Signup Bonus for British Airways Visa, and it Gets Better From There
A couple weeks back I posted the amazing new British Airways Visa proposition – 1.25 miles per dollar but more importantly a free companion award redemption voucher for spending $30,000 on the card in a year.
Well, it gets better. Much better.
I don’t usually reply to press release/pitch emails that I get, but I just got in my email box.
The signup bonus on the Chase co-branded British Airways Visa is going to be 100,000 miles: 50,000 BA Miles after first purchase, and 50,000 more miles after spending $2,000 on the card within three months. Wow.
Spend 30,000 miles on the card and you’l go from zero to 137,500 BA miles and have a free companion redemption voucher good for a second person traveling in the same class of service. That’s just incredible. I genuinely don’t remember the last time I was blown away by a credit card offer.
I don’t have a link to the offer yet, though details of the two-for-one voucher are available. Stay tuned!
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Comments (19)
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Holy smokes! Can’t wait to hear the details of this…
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:05 pm
To put it into context for those of you unfamiliar with the BA Executive Club, an F return from the US to Europe is 150,000 miles.
So by spending another $10k or buying the remaining miles required (circa $350) you would be able to use the 2-4-1 voucher to get two First Class return tickets from the US to Europe.
Admittedly the taxes and charges are steep but this is still a fantastic deal.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Holly smokes.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Wow, this is good enough to put a temporary halt to Citi churning! Last time I applied for a Chase card they were not pleased with all the recent pulls…
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Wow. Please share the link when you’re able — I’d really like to apply for this.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:05 pm
She does?
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Jeez! I usually forgo the churn game as I don’t wanna mess with my scores, but this one I’ll bite for.
November 4th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Gary -
So the voucher would be usable with an award ticket gained with the bonus miles?
Any thoughts on what the best redemption for those 137k – 150k 2-4-1 miles would be?
November 4th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
This promo sounds great, but I recently applied for a Chase rewards card and was denied because I had opened another Chase card within the past year. Is “one card per year” Chase’s normal policy?
November 4th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
[...] Gary Leff reported yesterday in his View from the Wing blog, British Airways and Chase Card Services will soon be offering 100,000 miles to people who [...]
November 4th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Sounds great. Do you what the taxes typically are currently for a coach award to Europe? Are taxes higher for business or F awards?
Thanks for the great blog, btw!
November 5th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Gary, do you have the link for the signup bonus yet? Thanks so much, in advance.
November 6th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
this just sounds too good to be true. where is something official link or otherwise???
November 17th, 2009 at 11:17 am
I am still trying to find a link to the signup bonus… can anyone help me? I read it would be available to the public on Monday Nov 16 but I still can’t find it. Any help?
November 17th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
http://www.mychasecreditcards.com/britishairways/header
December 14th, 2009 at 11:44 am
[...] you can find out about online before the rest of the world gets in on it. View From the Wing first tipped frequent flyers off to the recent and now-ended British Airways Visa promotion, later reported in the New York Times [...]
December 18th, 2009 at 9:10 am
when i go to british airways it says 30k bonus miles not 100k. has the offer expired?
December 19th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Haven’t found the 100K deal. Adds saying so but card deal is 30K miles after spending a bunch.
December 27th, 2009 at 7:44 am
I did not see where I can sign up for this 100k mile credit card, I see a 30k mile offer on the web site and thats it. Can you email me a link?