Maximising your miles from Avios, British Airways Executive Club, Virgin Flying Club and other travel loyalty schemes!
SriLankan Airlines has confirmed that it will officially join the oneworld airline alliance on 1st May. This will allow you to earn and spend Avios points (and earn British Airways tier points) when flying SriLankan. SriLankan is not a large airline, operating just 21 aircraft […]
I don’t feature that many external competitions on Head for Points. I do have a soft spot for the Business Traveller ones, however, because the prizes are usually very generous and your chances of winning are not bad. This month, Qantas is giving away two […]
In the ‘I didn’t see that coming’ stakes, Qatar Airways announcement this week of an ‘all business class’ service from Doha to Heathrow scores pretty highly. Using a newly acquired sixth daily slot at Heathrow, the service will launch on May 14th. It will use […]
Qatar Airways has launched another of its occasional 2-4-1 sales. These have annoying short booking windows (in this case, only until February 14th) but offer exceptional discounts when two people travel together. Here are some sample prices on the Qatar website. If we focus just […]
Flying to Australia is a painfully difficult way to make money. It was therefore not much of a surprise when Virgin Atlantic announced this week that it was scrapping its Hong Kong to Sydney flight. The company will now just fly to Hong Kong from […]
The “Avios Redemption University” series is a good starting point for beginners, although I hope everyone will learn something from them. Click here to see the other articles. When British Airways sold its regional operations to Flybe a few years ago, it became an airline with […]
The “Avios Redemption University” series is a good starting point for beginners, although I hope everyone will learn something from them. Click here to see the other articles. With the US being a top tourist destination for Brits, it is worth remembering that Avios can have […]
Finnair is a British Airways partner, courtesy of its membership of the oneworld airline alliance. This means that you will earn Avios and British Airways tier points on Finnair flights. The new Finnair long-haul sale is therefore worth a look. You can see full details […]
Over the next three days, I am going to take a look back at some of the trends and highlights from 2013. I will kick off today with some of my own travel highlights and a recap of some of the better promotions of the […]
I wrote last week about the US Government approval for the merger of US Airways and American Airlines. As part of the merger, US Airways will resign from Star Alliance on 30th March 2014 and join BA and American Airlines in the oneworld alliance on […]
The ‘on / off’ merger of US Airways with American Airlines is now, finally, ‘on’. The deal will complete in the next few days. Integrating the two carriers under the American Airlines brand will be a long process, albeit one that has been seen numerous […]
Finnair, a partner airline of BA’s in the oneworld alliance, has confirmed that the remainder of its long-haul fleet will have fully-flat business class seating by Autumn 2014. Four recent deliveries of Airbus A330 aircraft already feature the new seat, as can be seen here: […]
OK, there is a medium-sized catch to this headline. You need to start your trip in Cairo. And obviously there are safer places in the world than Cairo at the moment. But read on before dismissing this …. Qatar Airways is running a ’2 for […]
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