Flying Blue, the Air France / KLM loyalty scheme, has launched a new batch of discounted redemption routes. (If you got in on the recent amazing £999 business class deal on Air France / KLM to Japan, .....

Flying Blue, the Air France / KLM loyalty scheme, has launched a new batch of discounted redemption routes. .....

3 Sep 20143 September 2014 by Rob Burgess • 2 comments

Presumably as a response to American Express increasing the bonus on the two British Airways American Express cards to 9,000 Avios and 25,000 Avios respectively, Virgin Atlantic has boosted the .....

Presumably as a response to American Express increasing the bonus on the two British Airways American .....

2 Sep 20142 September 2014 by Rob Burgess • 28 comments

In case you are wondering what an article with this title is doing on a frequent flyer website, the reason is that Tesco often offers substantial bonus Clubcard points for pre-ordering video games. .....

In case you are wondering what an article with this title is doing on a frequent flyer website, the reason is .....

2 Sep 20142 September 2014 by Rob Burgess • 22 comments

Starwood – the Westin, W, Sheraton, St Regis, aloft etc hotel group – has teamed up with Mastercard to offer a free nights promotion.  This is valid for selected hotels in the UK, .....

Starwood – the Westin, W, Sheraton, St Regis, aloft etc hotel group – has teamed up with .....

2 Sep 20142 September 2014 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments

One of more interesting quirks of the separate avios.com and British Airways Executive Club schemes is that avios.com had additional reward availability for European economy flights. This goes back to .....

One of more interesting quirks of the separate avios.com and British Airways Executive Club schemes is that .....

1 Sep 20141 September 2014 by Rob Burgess • 22 comments

I don’t know how many American Express Platinum card customers fly with Ryanair.  Amex presumably has the data, and so there is probably a good reason why there is a new offer showing on my .....

I don’t know how many American Express Platinum card customers fly with Ryanair.  Amex presumably has .....

1 Sep 20141 September 2014 by Rob Burgess • 36 comments

I first wrote about this last month, but here is a quick reminder that this is your last chance to vote in The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sunday Times Travel Magazine travel awards. The website .....

I first wrote about this last month, but here is a quick reminder that this is your last chance to vote in .....

1 Sep 20141 September 2014 by Rob Burgess • 7 comments