How to Collect Avios: Four Ways to Increase Your Balance and Get Away Sooner

Collecting Avios is an easy way one step closer to your next flight or holiday, putting your next dream holiday within easy reach.

March 2025

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Collect Avios on your everyday spending when you shop online or in-store

We have teamed up with more than 2,000 retail partners including John Lewis, Apple and Sainsburys so you can collect Avios on the things you buy every day. When you want to buy something online, just visit the Avios.com shopping page first to check if your favourite are included.

Once you’ve found the retailer you want to buy from, click the ‘shop now’ link so we can track your visit - just make your purchases as you normally would and we’ll do the rest.

Prefer hitting the high street? There are more than 150 partners that will let you collect Avios when you shop in-store, including department stores like Harvey Nichols, and restaurant chains like Gaucho.

All you need to do is register your credit or debit cards to your account and shop as you normally would. You can register up to 10 payment cards and collect Avios every time you use them with one of our in-store partners.

Collect Avios by buying or subscribing

Collect Avios fast by buying or subscribing to Avios - one of the simplest and quickest ways to increase your balance. You can buy Avios as a one-off purchase from as little as £49 for 2,000 Avios.

If you want to add to your balance regularly, you can also purchase an Avios subscription plans starting from £26 per month for 20,000 Avios a year (1,667 Avios per month). The more Avios you buy, the more savings you’ll receive and if you sign up for a year, you’ll save even more.

Another great way to buy Avios is through Boosting. If you have collected Avios within the previous 30 days, you can pay to boost the amount you collected by a factor of one, two or three, so you could turn 25,000 Avios into 75,000.

For more information, head over to our buy Avios page.

Collect Avios with Uber

Link your British Airways Club and Uber accounts to effortlessly collect Avios with every eligible ride you take in the UK. You can also collect Avios when you book train tickets through the Uber app. For every £1 spent with Uber, you’ll receive 1 Avios.

Linking your accounts is easy, free and you only have to do it once.

Explore our Uber page to find out how to link your accounts. (Terms and conditions apply)

Collect Avios when you travel

Booking flights is perhaps one of the most popular ways to collect Avios, but did you also know that you can collect Avios on other travel essentials.

Some of our biggest travel partners include:

  • Avios Hotels: Powered by Expedia, Avios Hotels lets you collect 10 Avios for every £1 spent when you book one of 300,000 hotels globally. Or if you prefer, you can spend your Avios on a hotel booking too.

  • Avios car hire: Working together with Avis and Budget means that you can collect five Avios per £1 spent and access their fleet of vehicles around the world.

  • British Airways Holidays:Take the stress out of holiday planning and book incredible package deals and earn one Avios for every £1 spent.

Head over to our travel page for more insight into how to collect Avios.

Now you’re familiar with the most popular ways to collect Avios, you’ll find your balance growing in no time. All that’s left is to figure out where you’ll be holidaying next by exploring our Spend Avios page.

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