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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.
The latest UK business travel news:
SAS will join SkyTeam on 1st September
Hilton loses yet another LXR hotel
Direct lounge to aircraft boarding arrives …. at Teesside International Airport
Eurostar renames its three travel classes
How does the Priority Pass airport lounge card work?
Edinburgh Airport boosts twilight check-in for BA, easyJet, Ryanair and Jet2
Fly business class to Dubai from just £1,126 with Lufthansa and SWISS
…. and there are aggressive BA business class fares to the USA via Dublin
BA franchise SUN-AIR suspends Manchester-Billund flights
Gatwick’s The Grain Store Priority Pass restaurant to close for refurbishment
Stories we recommend from other sites:
Eastern Airways to restart Aberdeen-Teesside route (Business Traveller)
Emirates adds luxury Bulgari freebies for First and Business Class passengers (Arabian Business)
Two days of week-long Heathrow strikes suspended (Travel Weekly)
5 reasons why the Airbus A380 failed to live up to the hype (Simple Flying)
Whitbread to convert underperforming restaurants into Premier Inn rooms (Business Traveller)
Our latest reviews:
Rhys heads to Montenegro, the next ‘it’ destination, to see what it has to offer and review the stunning Hyatt Regency Kotor Bay (photo above)
Rob reviews the Hilton Newcastle Gateshead hotel. It might be boring but it is surprisingly good at what it does.
The latest UK travel loyalty news:
It’s back: 7 nights Virgin Voyages full board cruises for two from 120,000 points!
This crazy hotel promotion could see someone walking home with $200,000 – and everyone could (in theory) pick up $5,200 ….
Get 1,000 bonus Accor points on your next European hotel booking
Which nine Hilton brands don’t offer upgrades to Gold and Diamond members?
Marriott Homes & Villas launches a new promotion worth 50,000 Bonvoy points
Get 4x Accor points at the Sanderson London and St Martin’s Lane hotels
What are the best Tesco Clubcard travel deals?
Get an 80% bonus when buying IHG One Rewards points – click here to buy
What is the best Virgin Atlantic credit card for you?
There is wide open Avios business class availability to Dubai for early 2025
…. and to the Maldives up to February 2025
Bid for British Grand Prix Paddock Club ticket packages with Avios …. a LOT of Avios
ENDS SOON: Got a Limited Company? Get points worth 30,000 Avios!
If you have a limited company or LLP, we are running an exclusive special offer with Capital on Tap and its small business Visa credit card.
This is a hugely powerful card. You earn points worth 1 Avios or 1p of cashback for every £1 you spend and it comes with no FX fees and no ATM fees.
Until 12th May, you will receive 10,000 points (worth 10,000 Avios or £100) for making your first purchase, and a further 20,000 points (worth 20,000 Avios or £200) if you spend £20,000 within three months.
This means you will receive a total bonus of 30,000 points (worth 30,000 Avios or £300) if you hit the £20,000 spend target. You will also receive your standard ‘1 point per £1’ as well.
Even if you can’t spend £20,000 within three months, you still qualify for 10,000 bonus points for making just one purchase.
You can find out more in this article. You must apply via this exclusive HfP link to get the bonus.
The annual fee is £99. The offer ends on 12th May.
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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