British Airways Executive Club has introduced a new benefit – some members will be able to transfer Avios to other people for free.   (You have been able to transfer Avios to other people by paying a ludicrous fee for a number of years, but […]

The decision by British Airways to increase its change and cancellation fees by 40% last week (up from £25 to £35 per person) did not go down well. (It would have gone down worse, except that BA has not bothered to tell people about it.  The […]

A quick heads up that British Airways is running a special promotion on short-breaks in Europe at the moment. When you book a Club Europe break, which means booking both the flight and hotel via British Airways, you can save up to £50. Full details […]

British Airways has announced two new ‘Winter-only’ ski routes for 2014/5, to Grenoble (photo below) and Friedrichshafen.  Both flights will operate from Gatwick. They will only operate for a short season, from December 20th to April 19th 2015.  More importantly, the flights will only operate twice […]

British Airways has, from yesterday, increased the change, cancellation and amendment fees on Avios bookings by a whopping 40%. It will cost £35 per person to make changes to a booking, up from the current £25. More importantly, Gold card holders must now pay.  They […]

Last October, British Airways introduced ‘Part-Pay With Avios‘.  This allowed you to pay part of the price of a cash ticket using Avios points. At the time, a lot of people felt deflated by the product.  BA had been making noises for a long time about […]

British Airways launched a new tool on ba.com yesterday – ‘My Flightpath’. You can access it here (log-in required). When BA launched Lifetime Tier Points last year, they were forced into assembling lots of data on your British Airways trip history.  Someone clearly thought that […]

British Airways has launched a four day flash sale.  It started yesterday, and will run until midnight on Tuesday. In theory, the sale is only for World Traveller and World Traveller Plus.  However, a lot of routes are also reduced in Club World as well. […]

When the first batch of Boeing 787-8′s entered service with British Airways late last year, they were designed as three-class aircraft.  There is no First Class cabin at all. There was some discussion at the time about whether this was the beginning of the end of […]

I had an email this week from a reader who had faced problems getting British Airways telephone agents to book an ‘open jaw’ flight using a British Airways American Express 2-4-1 voucher.  I thought it was worth running over the rules as others will find […]