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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 [...]
I have updated the ‘Credit Cards Update‘ page at the top of the blog for May. We have had a couple of great months in terms of new offers being launched. In March, we got the new promotion on the Lloyds TSB Duo Avios cards [...]
I had an email from a reader recently who asked me about how easy it was to ‘churn’ various credit cards, ie cancel them and then reapply, picking up another sign-up bonus. He suggested that I write a specific post about it. I said that [...]
One of the joys that greeted me on our return from Dubai was our council tax bill for 2013/2014. Earning Avios or other points by paying your day-to-day bills is something which a lot of people ignore. Unfortunately, because of the huge range of utility [...]
Yesterday I wrote a long post about the new bonus on the Lloyds TSB Duo Avios credit cards. You will get 15,000 Avios for taking out the free cards, and 20,000 Avios for the ‘Premium’ cards with the £50 annual fee. I mentioned in that [...]
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 [...]
Finally …. after, what, 6 months? …. the sign-up deal for the Lloyds TSB Duo Avios credit cards has been changed. They have, finally, got rid of the stupid deal which gave you a large pile of Avios but forced you to book a hotel [...]
(EDIT: This post was updated in May 2013 to reflect the current bonus) This is the 10th 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 [...]
(EDIT: This post was updated in May 2013 to reflect the current bonus offer) This is the 9th 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 [...]
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 has been updated in May 2013, and the numbers shown below are correct as of May 2013.) I first wrote on this topic back in November. However, with major changes, I thought it was a good time to re-run the analysis. Our [...]
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