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I reported last week how Iberia had pulled Reward Flight Saver flights with absolutely no notice, replacing them with a new structure which charges full airport taxes plus a reduced fuel surcharge. At the time, I wondered if BA and avios.com would follow suit. And [...]
Iberia has clearly been taking PR lessons from someone. At 2am in the morning on June 1st, it sent an innocuous newsletter out. It was only released in Spanish (“Coja aire, respire y vuele lejos estas vacaciones”). And, tucked away at the bottom, was the [...]
One of my criticisms about Little Red, the new Virgin Atlantic domestic airline I outline here, was that redemption flights via Virgin Flying Club were likely to be very uncompetitive due to the taxes that Virgin levies on redemptions. Well, it seems that Virgin had [...]
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 [...]
Avios.com has launched a special offer on redemptions in Club Europe, BA’s short-haul business class. It is not a life-changing deal, but it is worth knowing about if you were thinking of a short break this Spring. You can book Club Europe redemptions for 15,000 [...]
So, the end of 2012 is here. And, overall, it has been a good one for the miles and points collector. The stand-out deal, without a doubt, was the Lloyds TSB Avios credit card promotion. There has never been another deal like this one, and [...]
(This is Lesson 4 in the ‘Avios Redemption University’ series, aimed at answering the eternal question – ‘What is the best Avios redemption?’. Links to the three earlier articles on upgrading with Avios, redeeming on Aer Lingus and redeeming for hotel rooms can be found here.) [...]
I have been running a few posts to show people how they can travel from the regions via Avios, using BA partner airlines. I have already looked at routes on Vueling here and here. Sun-Air of Scandinavia is a low profile BA franchise airline running [...]
Almost a year after the launch of Avios, Iberia has finally caught up with BA and launched ‘Avios and Money’. This may be relevant to you, because Iberia redemptions booked on the Iberia website tend to carry far lower taxes than the same flight booked [...]
I am a big fan of Reward Flight Saver flights, which allow you to redeem Avios points for BA or Iberia flights within Europe for a modest level of taxes and charges instead of the £100+ charged on a revenue ticket. The following announcement has [...]
I have written a few posts recently about Reward Flight Saver flights, where BA or Iberia caps your ‘taxes and charges’ fee at £27 return for economy, £34 return for business or £40 for First. (Click on ‘Reward Flight Saver’ under ‘Categories’ below to see [...]
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