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This week’s top travel news stories:
NEW: get 7,500 bonus Hilton Honors points on your next stay when you join ‘Hilton for Business’
Virgin Atlantic launches a reward seat sale: get 20% off almost all routes for ALL of 2024
Get up to 18,750 Avios with Sainsbury’s life insurance
BA Cityflyer now offering free check-in of hand baggage at London City following densification
Qantas launches Singapore to Darwin flights which connect to the QF2 Heathrow flight
The Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel chain has been sold and may be rebranded
Here’s the full opening schedule for the Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Wing between now and May, as new scanners are installed
Which 24 routes from Heathrow see over 1 million passengers per year?
Travel deals this week:
Etihad is offering £1,199 business class deals to India
Fly to Sydney in business class for €2,500 with Etihad
Ethiopian Airlines is offering £1,591 seats to Johannesburg from Gatwick in business class
British Airways and Avios news:
How to earn BA tier points and Avios in the current Malaysia Airlines sale – business class seat pictured above
NEW: Revolut launches Avios for debit card spending in five countries – coming to the UK soon?
Which hotel loyalty programme is best for earning Avios?
Credit card news:
Emirates Skywards is planning a new UK credit card …. what could it look like?
Save £100 at Emirates with American Express
How to pay HMRC by credit card using Curve by the 31st January deadline
Is there any point having the free British Airways American Express card? Whatever your reason for having it, another card does it better.
Hotel news:
Get 3,000 bonus points with Marriott Bonvoy at Moxy hotels in the UK and Europe
The Conrad Singapore (former Regent) opens, image above
LivSmart Studios becomes Hilton’s 22nd hotel brand
A new ibis Styles has opened in Paignton
Six Nation rugby packages are up for auction for IHG One Rewards points
Is Accor Live Limitless the best hotel loyalty scheme? We start a new series comparing the ‘big six’ schemes.
Reviews this week:
Rob heads to Paris to review the reassuringly expensive Hotel Lutetia, part of Global Hotel Alliance and The Set Collection. It’s the only ‘palace’ hotel on the Left Bank.
That’s all, folks
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See you next Saturday,
Rob, Rhys and Katie @ Head for Points
