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(SOLD OUT) Get your Head for Points Summer Party tickets at noon TODAY

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It’s finally time to distribute tickets for the Head for Points Summer Party, generously sponsored by Heathrow Express.

This is the UK’s biggest frequent flyer event. Because it is getting increasingly hard to schedule them around major football tournaments, we have moved to a two year schedule. If you miss this one, your next chance will be 2027!

500 tickets will be made available at noon TODAY (Tuesday).

Where and when is the Head for Points Summer Party?

The date is Thursday 19th June.

This year we are moving to a new venue – Christ Church Spitalfields, the prominent church on the Eastern side of Spitalfields Market (photo above).

The party will take place from 6pm until 9pm.

Whilst Christ Church is still an active church, it operates as an events venue for most of the week. We attended a function there earlier in the year and realised that it was ideal for our needs.

As well as a fantastic interior (see below) the church has outdoor space if the weather is good. If it’s bad, there is overflow space so it still won’t feel too crowded.

As well as chatting to Rob, Rhys, Sinead, Katie, Conny and fellow guests, there will be around 75 people from your favourite airlines, hotels and credit card companies in the room who are keen to hear what you think. There is no other frequent flyer event like it in the UK.

You can win a £10,000+ raffle prize, courtesy of Malaysia Airlines

We will be holding our popular raffle again. Everyone who attends receives one raffle ticket.

We have given away some spectacular star prizes in our party raffles over the years, but this year we have managed to raise the bar even higher.

Malaysia Airlines has generously donated the fantastic headline prize.

The winner will receive:

  • two return Business Class flights to an Australian destination of your choice via Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia Airlines flies to multiple destinations in Australia, including Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and, starting from November, Brisbane.

The winner will be able to arrange their flights to build in time in Kuala Lumpur if they wish and open jaw flights are also an option. There are some blackout dates, but they aren’t extensive. We do need to point out that the winner will not earn Enrich miles from their flights.

Malaysia Airlines is flying its new A330neo aircraft on some of these routes so you may be able to try Malaysia’s brand new business class seat (image below). And, of course, any flight will feature Malaysia Airlines’ excellent service and warm Malaysian hospitality.

We will be telling you more about Malaysia Airlines in the run up to the event. As a member of the oneworld alliance, you can earn Avios and British Airways Club tier points when you fly with them, as well as redeem Avios on their flights.

There are runner up prizes too

If you don’t win the star prize, you could still walk away with one of a number of other great prizes, generously donated by the companies you read about on HfP every day.

We already have confirmed prizes from American Express, Accor, Avis and Le Shuttle and we expect more to be added.

The raffle will be drawn at 8pm and you must be in the room at that point in order to win.

(As you would expect, some T&C will apply to the Malaysia Airlines prize.)

Thank you to our headline sponsor

We would struggle to run this party without sponsorship so we are appreciative of the generous support from this year’s sponsor, Heathrow Express.

Not only is Heathrow Express enabling this great event, the team are promising to bring some exciting product news to the party!

Heathrow Express

How can I get a party ticket?

We hope that you can come along to meet Rob, Sinead, Katie, Conny and myself (Rhys) and to talk miles, points, credit cards and travel with other readers.

The party will run from 6pm to 9pm on Thursday 19th June at Christ Church Spitalfields.  The raffle will be drawn at 8pm so you don’t need to commit to staying until the end – although hopefully you will.

The bar will remain open for a while after 9pm for anyone who wants to stay longer. 

Bring a friend or come by yourself – you won’t struggle to find someone to share your stories with. We do not recommend bringing someone who doesn’t share your love of points and travel because that’s all people talk about for three hours!

As usual, to ensure that people who ask for tickets turn up, there is a £15 charge per ticket. This includes your first drink, soft or alcoholic, from a selection. There is a pay bar for additional drinks.

The cost of staging an event like this is substantial and the ticket price – which includes VAT – only covers a small part of our costs. We are grateful for the support of Heathrow Express for making the evening possible.

Tickets will go on sale at noon today, Tuesday 3rd June.

There is a limit of two tickets per booking. American Express is accepted. Tickets are not refundable. Ignore the ‘Promo Code’ box on the checkout page.

Click here from noon to purchase your tickets from our Eventbrite page.

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday 19th June and hopefully sending you off to Australia in the good hands of Malaysia Airlines.

Comments (182)

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  • BlairWaldorfSalad says:

    Friendly reminder for the person in each travel org sending a rep to the party: please send someone naturally outgoing who will happily dive into chats. Wallflowers who talk to one another aren’t ideal at an event like this. Hilton seems to do this well; I’ve met some really impressive people based out of their Watford office.

    • Rob says:

      That’s not how it works. We invite the people we deal with personally. The upside is that we operate at a high level (due to the approvals needed for reviews, ad spend etc) so its usually senior management.

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

      So no Calum Lammimg? 😃

      But you do have a point. It’s not a good look if the paying guests know more about an airline / hotel / card scheme than the people those businesses send.

      Imagine this conversation between an attendee and BA

      So when will Amex points count for tier points or what’s the delay. It’s been 6 months since you announced it?

      Oh I don’t work in that department.

      • Rob says:

        Be very clear. There is NO-ONE you will ever meet who works for an airline or in loyalty who knows as much as a committed HfP reader.

        Why would they? How could they? Many of us have been flying since before they were born. We travel on multiple airlines and are active members of multiple programmes. We are (on the whole) well paid – unlike them – and can afford to try different products.

        There’s no way it can be otherwise.

        Even at Avios, the IAG way is to rotate the CEO role amongst the ‘BA senior management’ pool. It’s likely the next head of Avios is currently the Head of IAG Cargo or similar (this has been the path before). They are not coming out of, say, Nectar or Clubcard.

        • SammyJ says:

          They could also sign up to read 3 emails and a handful of comments every day, in order to remain at the top of their game!

        • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

          They should at least know the basics and read sites like this to get a feel for what their customers are saying /wanting to know and be prepared to engage.

          I wouldn’t expect the head of IAGL to know how many avios you need to fly to XXX but they should at least know about RFS etc.

          Or get an assistant to do that and prepare a briefing!

          Knowing the basics might have led them to make different decisions that aren’t universally slammed.

  • Whisper2 says:

    If I call the Gold line at 1155 hrs I presume they can hold a pair of tickets at midday and I avoid the website scramble to enter my card details? 😉

  • SteveCroydon says:

    @Stuart asked “Anyone from British Airways going to be there 😂?”
    It’s a pretty good bet the answer to that is NO, NO NO. Especially from any so-called Customer Service or Customer Experience Johnnies.
    I’d like to give the IT people a damn good kicking!

    • Rob says:

      Tom Stoddart, CEO of Cityflyer / Euroflyer, and his No2 came last time, amongst others.

    • memesweeper says:

      I’m pretty sure I met a few people from IAG loyalty last time too, which whilst not technically BA, is the bit of BA many of us are most interested in…

  • Brian says:

    Looking forward to speaking to the Kimpton rep…

  • Doommonger says:

    Will there be provision for attendees with OCD?

  • Tom says:

    Let the scramble begin. Good luck everyone.

    • Rob says:

      We are always equally worried / intrigued as to whether it actually works, given that we tend to forget things between events! Eventbrite is also not the easiest system to use if you’re only an occasional user.

  • Matt says:

    Woot! I got a ticket. My first time ever!

  • Solartravels says:

    well I’m in! see you there! super excited!

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