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From April 6th, UK companies have been banned from imposing excessive credit card surcharges on customers. The airline industry has, of course, been one of the worst offenders here, but has anything actually changed for the better? If you are flying a legacy airline then, [...]
It was two weeks ago that I originally ran a version of this post, discussing places which accept the 3V Virtual Visa cards. (If you missed the original post, you can buy two £25 3V Virtual Visa cards in Tesco for £50, earn 150 bonus [...]
This is a rather niche topic, but many Heads for Points readers with Flying Blue status are likely to have achieved it by shuttling around Europe with CityJet, Air France / KLM’s UK offshoot, from London City Airport. I received an email from a reader who [...]
On Business is the British Airways reward programme for companies. It allows businesses – even one-man bands, as long as they are registered at Companies House – to collect points for all of their company-wide flights. (On Business points are totally separate to the Avios [...]
My Tesco Credit Card statement this month came with a leaflet promoting another special offer from Tesco Wine. This one offers 750 bonus Clubcard points when you spend over £60 at Tesco Wine. This is worth 1,800 Avios miles or 1,875 Virgin Flying Club miles. [...]
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 [...]
As you are constantly hearing from the Government, from British Airways and from Heathrow Airport itself is that the airport is – to all intents and purposes – ‘full’. This is, to put it mildly, a bit of a shame if you are an ‘up [...]
Virgin Flying Club is currently offering double miles (2 miles per £1) when you exchange your foreign currency at Amex Currency Exchange at Heathrow, Edinburgh or Birmingham. You can also get double miles at Gatwick at Moneycorp. You can read full details of the offer here. [...]
Via the Evening Standard this week, British Airways has been promoting some discounted European flights in business class from London City Airport. Full details are here. The good news is that you can book all the way through to March 2014. The bad news is that [...]
Here you go, a little Head for Points exclusive to round off the week : At last, confirmation that BAA WorldPoints will become Heathrow Rewards next week, and we will all be sent a little purple card like this! It seems that Heathrow Points lost the [...]
Avios is giving away 20,000 Avios points in a competition to predict the winner of Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest! The competition is being run via Facebook, so you will need an account there to participate. Here is the link to take part. Everyone who correctly [...]
British Airways is celebrating its sponsorship of the Taste of London 2013 restaurant festival in Regents Park (see my Taste of London post here on why you may or may not want to visit!) with a selection of discounts on flights to what they consider [...]
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