Your Amex Companion Voucher now works on BA Holidays
From 20th May 2026, BA Amex Companion Vouchers work on BA Holidays packages. Get 25% of your Avios back with no Reward seat availability required
British Airways has just announced that from 20th May 2026 until 31st March 2027, British Airways Amex Companion Voucher holders can now redeem against British Airways Holidays packages — not just Reward Flights. If you have a voucher sitting unused because you could not find Reward availability, read on.
What has changed
Until recently, the BA Amex Companion Voucher only worked on Reward Flights — which meant battling availability, peak pricing and seat restrictions. The new option is simpler: book any British Airways Holidays package (Flight + Hotel or Flight + Car), pay with Avios, and get 25% of those Avios back.
No Reward seat availability required. Any eligible holiday package qualifies.
How it works
- Book a BA Holidays package at ba.com/holidays using Avios as full or part payment
- Complete the online claim form within 72 hours of booking
- BA credits 25% of your redeemed Avios back within two working days
The caps depend on which card you hold, for each booking:
| Card | Maximum Avios back |
|---|---|
| BA Amex Credit Card | Up to 50,000 Avios |
| BA Amex Premium Plus Card | Up to 200,000 Avios |
A worked example
Use 40,000 Avios to part-pay a holiday to Tenerife. You get 10,000 (i.e. 25% x 40,000) Avios back. Net cost: 30,000 Avios plus whatever cash you contribute.
For Premium Plus holders the numbers can be considerably larger — use 200,000 Avios on a higher-value holiday and you get 50,000 back. That is a meaningful return on what might otherwise be an expiring voucher.
Three things that make this genuinely useful
No Reward seat availability required. This is the real change. Getting two Reward seats on a popular route at peak times has always been the biggest frustration with the Companion Voucher. Under the new arrangement you travel on any seat on any BA Holidays package — no availability hunting, book the seats you want, not whatever happens to be available.
Voucher validity flexibility. Your voucher only needs to be valid at the point of booking, not at the point of travel. Book in July with a voucher that expires in August, travel in October — it counts. That removes one of the most common reasons people end up wasting their voucher. This is unlike how the voucher works for Reward Flight, for which the outbound flight needs to have flown before the expiry date of the voucher. This greatly increases flexibility and removes one of the most common reasons vouchers go to waste.
Groups of up to nine. You can book for up to nine people on a single booking and use one Companion Voucher. The 25% Avios return is calculated on the total Avios spent on that booking — so a larger group spending more Avios gets more back, up to the cap.
Is this better than using your voucher on a Reward Flight?
For most people, a business class Reward Flight redemption will still deliver better Avios value per point — a one-way business class seat to New York at 50,000 Avios is difficult to beat on pure pence-per-point terms.
But if Reward availability is the problem — and for many people it is — the BA Holidays option is now a genuinely useful alternative that gives the voucher holder that extra flexibility.
If you have previously struggled to find Reward availability for two people on the same flight, this is the workaround you have been waiting for.
Full terms and conditions are available on the British Airways website.
RewardGoose publishes for information only. This is not financial advice. Always review the current terms and conditions at ba.com before booking. Terms correct as of 23 May 2026.
