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Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as our latest reviews and features.
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The Travel Brief is the successor to Malcolm Ginsberg’s Business Travel News. Malcolm’s new monthly forward-looking Travel News Update is available at travelnewsupdate.co.uk.
We’ve had a rebrand to ‘The Travel Brief’
It’s now 18 months since we acquired Business Travel News from Malcolm Ginsberg.
We didn’t want to use the BTN name going forwards because of the clash with BTN Europe (although Malcolm used it first!). We thought we could get away without giving the newsletter a formal name at all.
We’ve now decided that we do need some sort of branding, and so please welcome the new newsletter name – The Travel Brief.
Literally nothing else will change. You will still get a curated ‘rip and read’ summary of the top UK business travel and travel loyalty stories in your inbox or LinkedIn feed every Monday morning. Thanks for your ongoing support.
The latest UK business travel news:
SAS has announced when it will join SkyTeam and leave Star Alliance
British Airways launched a new Avios-only flight to Barbados
Cathay Pacific unveils its new premium economy seat – we went down to Hong Kong to see it
British Airways launches a status match …. but only for US and Canadian residents
How to save £46 by booking short haul Aer Lingus redemptions on aerlingus.com – don’t waste money by booking on ba.com
Qatar Airways has some good Business Class cash deals to Asia …. but not from the UK
British Airways makes more changes to its Tel Aviv flights
Danish Air Transport will fly some routes for British Airways this summer – is your flight impacted?
Stories we recommend from other sites:
Radisson Collection Berlin to reopen with centrepiece ‘Living Tree’ (Business Traveller)
Heathrow: British Airways and Virgin Atlantic planes in minor collision (BBC)
London City Airport sees queues cut in half after install of new scanners (UK Aviation News)
easyJet reassures passengers over catering strike threat (Travel Weekly)
Norse Atlantic shareholders provide loan as carrier prepares for summer cash stream (FlightGlobal)
Global Airlines to offer complimentary airport transfers to first and business class passengers (Business Traveller)
Our latest reviews:
Rob reviews the new(ish) Fairmont Windsor Park hotel, which surpassed all expectations. Image above.
The latest UK travel loyalty news:
The big story of the week ….
…. and whould you cancel your British Airways Premium Plus Amex card if you can’t spend £15,000?
Other travel loyalty news
Get 250 free Avios by joining Marriott Bonvoy – no stay required
Accor launches a double points hotel promotion across Europe – click here to register
Where can you fly to from UK regional airports using Avios? We do an airport-by-airport analysis
A flood of new Amex cashback offers have appeared, including IHG, Hilton, Marriott, KLM, Air France, Virgin Atlantic, Singapore Airlines and more! They are worth over £1,000 in total.
Redeem Hilton Honors points to let your kids (or you) play at Stamford Bridge during May half term
Get a 100% bonus buying Hilton Honors points – click here to buy
One Key will replace Hotels.com and Expedia Rewards ‘between July and October’. Here’s what you need to know. Remember that your return on Hotels.com bookings will be cut by 80%.
Thank you for reading
Please drop me a note at rob@headforpoints.com with any feedback. See you next Monday.
Rob, Rhys and Katie @ Head for Points
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