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British Airways Amex Credit Card - Family of 4

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Lwizzer · 28/05/2025 22:28

We are a family of 4 (2 adults and 2 kids under 5) - I am looking at getting one of the British Airways Amex credit cards to collect avios and get the companion 2 for 1 voucher. I cannot find anything online about which card is more suitable for families?

British Airways American Express Premium Plus Card (£300 annual fee)
OR
British Airways American Express Credit Card (No annual fee)

Not sure if anyone can provide any advice and guidance? Everything I'm reading online seems to suggest the paid for credit card is better value than the free one.

Thanks in advance :)

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Donsyb · 31/05/2025 15:57

VeronicaRaven · 30/05/2025 12:37

My partner has the normal Amex card, most recently we used it to go to Antigua. Use of companion voucher and points meant that our £1600 flights were £300 total out of pocket. We booked directly with the resort we were going to and had much better deal overall that if we booked a package (the resort was available to book via BA).
For us this works reasonably well and it's worth it but we don't use every single companion voucher as we like to go on different holidays and cruises so we only use vouchers half of the time.
I have no idea how this works with kids, everyone else that I know is doing the same are child free like us.
The annoying thing is that Amex is not wildly accepted (we live rural) in shops etc so we mostly use it online and definitely missing out on collecting more points, if you live in big city this may be much easier.
Also we can't really upgrade when using companion vouchers which we would like to on some long haul flights. Especially when the 1st class is empty, they should just make it possible to pay the difference and upgrade.
I never even considered getting Amex as it's just annoying to use and it's always necessary to carry another card with you because you constantly hear 'sorry, we don't accept Amex'. But it does the job and we use it strategically to rack up point if we fancy long haul hols.
Last point is that I personally don't massively like flying with BA, so I try not to do it too often. They are trying very hard to be fancy but some of the dirtiest and most dilapidated planes I've been in were BA (plus Heathrow Terminal 5, if you know you know).

Are you referring to the mice??

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