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This week’s top travel news stories:
Exclusive: Virgin Atlantic cancels Sao Paulo before flights even start (for the second time!) It will try again in 2025.
American Express Shop Small returns in December – make sure you are ready by saving the offer
Can ‘all business class’ to the Maldives work? Rhys tours Beond before its inaugural flight – image above
Redeem Avios on transatlantic JetBlue flights with ZERO surcharges (for now) – you can also redeem Avios on JetBlue domestic flights in the US
Virgin Group wants to run Channel Tunnel trains to Europe
easyJet is offering home luggage collection for Gatwick customers – FREE for FLEXI customers
Here’s the full schedule for lounge closures and refurbishment at Luton Airport
We’ve been shortlisted for three industry awards
Credit card news:
Amex brings back the British Airways Accelerating Business Card for small businesses – what is it? Get 30,000 Avios for signing up. Having a personal BA Amex is not a problem. You can apply here.
Why Fine Hotels & Resorts is one of the best Amex Platinum benefits – remember that the card comes with 100,000 bonus points at present
Hotel news:
CitizenM has launched a hotel sale, with six months of mycitizenM+ for all bookers
Which? magazine reveals the best and worst UK hotel chains
Hilton opens in Monaco as a well-known property joins Curio Collection
Latest reviews:
After 11 years, we’ve finally updated our review of the British Airways Galleries First Lounge at Heathrow Terminal 5. If you book the last flight of the night it turns out that you can take pictures without the crowds!
Further afield, Rhys returns from Hong Kong with two lounge reviews:
Other interesting news:
Get 8,000 Virgin Points (4,000 Clubcard points) with Tesco Mobile
Get 2,500 Virgin Points by activating Tesco Clubcard auto-convert
We try Wheely’s ‘Perfect Airport Pickup’
Why does Nectar’s shopping portal perform so badly?
That’s all, folks
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Don’t forget to visit our forum if you have any questions relating to frequent flyer or hotel loyalty programmes or loyalty credit cards.
See you next Saturday.
Rob, Rhys and Sinead @ Head for Points
