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Yesterday, I did my best to respond to an email I received asking ‘What is the best credit card for earning Avios points?’. Because you can earn Avios points both directly and indirectly (eg via Tesco Clubcard or Amex Membership Rewards), the list of possible cards [...]
I recently had an email asking ‘What is the best credit card for earning Avios points?’. This is not as easy an answer as you might think. Whilst there are the BA and Lloyds TSB cards which issue Avios miles directly, there are other cards [...]
Well, I didn’t see that one coming! MBNA announced yesterday that they have launched a new UK credit card in conjunction with Etihad Guest, the loyalty programme for Abu Dhabi’s national airline. The first thing to note is that the cards look very pretty! The [...]
According to Flyertalk, a message has appeared on the US American Express website saying that Sirius, the Jumeirah Hotels programme, will cease to be a Membership Rewards transfer partner on 31st July. There is no similar message on the UK site at the moment. It [...]
If you have an American Express Platinum charge card, you may be interested to know that the latest batch of ‘exclusive member events’ have been loaded onto the website (log-in required). You will no doubt receive an email about them in the next day or so, [...]
1p per point is my preferred target when redeeming American Express Membership Rewards points. This is not easy, of course. As I posted here, redeeming Membership Rewards points for statement credit or gift vouchers only gets you 0.5p per point. If you value Avios or other [...]
I knew it couldn’t last! (Although it’s annoying it happened on the day that I reviewed the card and gave it a slating for not having a bonus ….) After just three weeks of offering a sign-up bonus of precisely nothing, Amex has brought back [...]
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If you didn’t take part this time, don’t worry as I will be re-running this feature in the Summer. Feel free to expand on or critique my [...]
(EDIT: This post was updated in May 2013 to reflect the new sign-up bonus.) This is the 3rd of my series of posts looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether of not they are worth applying for. These posts will be [...]
This is the 2nd of my series of posts looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether of not they are worth applying for. These posts will be linked to the relevant sections of the ‘Credit Cards Update‘ page. My other UK [...]
American Express has launched a bonus promotion worth 1,000 Membership Rewards points (= 1,000 Avios, amongst other things) for each new supplementary cardholder you add to your Platinum charge card account. Full details and the application link can be found here. Each Platinum cardholder can [...]
I don’t write much about small business credit cards on Head for Points, because they tend to offer poor value. There are, for example, two British Airways American Express Corporate Cards, which I discuss in this post on the On Business loyalty scheme. They are [...]
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