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A little later than originally planned, the new Heathrow Rewards website – the replacement for BAA WorldPoints – has finally launched. The link is here. The short version is heathrow.com/rewards and not rewards.heathrow.com, despite what my link shows. Very little has changed so far. Here [...]
Back in March, Lufthansa ran a 20% bonus promotion for buying Miles & More miles. This was part of the promotional activity to celebrate 20 years of the programme. The deal is now back until 30th June. You can see the full range of prices [...]
I write quite a bit about Miles & More, the Lufthansa frequent flyer scheme, on Head for Points as it is the logical place for a UK reader to put their miles from Star Alliance flights. (It is not necessarily the best place, but that [...]
It’s time for our monthly round-up of discounted redemption routes available via the Lufthansa Miles & More programme. The May list of discounted Miles & More redemptions from the UK is here. You must book by May 31th for travel by June 16th. As I say each [...]
Back in March I wrote about the Lufthansa Oil & Energy Club. This offers special benefits to people who work in the oil and energy sector (or who can persuade Lufthansa they do …) including Silver (Frequent Traveller) status in the Miles & More programme. [...]
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 have written a few posts about the Jumeirah hotels and resorts in Dubai, such as this one last week reviewing Emirates Towers, because they are very popular with people in the UK who are heading to the Middle East. We also use them a lot [...]
Back in August, I wrote this post about the three different types of credit cards you can hold, based on a structure originally discussed by Gary Leff at View from the Wing. To summarise, these are: Cards you get just for the sign-up bonus, and [...]
For the last few months – possibly as a response to those who complain that their taxes and fuel surcharges are crazy – Lufthansa has been running a monthly list of discounted routes for collectors of Miles & More miles. The April list of discounted Miles [...]
Hilton HHonors has started to drip feed a number of promotions into the market which offer bonus miles for people who choose the ‘Hilton HHonors points and airline miles’ collection option when staying. (Hilton is unique in offering BOTH points and airline miles when you [...]
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 current sign-up bonus) This is the 8th 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 [...]
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