British Airways is about to announce another 12 months extension of elite status for some Executive Club members. The screw continues to tighten, however. This latest extension will only benefit Gold .....

British Airways is about to announce another 12 months extension of elite status for some Executive Club .....

20 Apr 202220 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 190 comments

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you will have seen the widespread travel chaos that has been unfolding at airports nationwide over the past two weeks. The Easter school holidays have been .....

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you will have seen the widespread travel chaos that has been .....

20 Apr 202220 April 2022 by Rhys Jones • 148 comments

In a surprise move, the US federal mask mandate on public transport – including planes and trains – has been scrapped following a ruling by US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in .....

In a surprise move, the US federal mask mandate on public transport – including planes and trains .....

19 Apr 202219 April 2022 by Rhys Jones • 67 comments

For two years now, SeatSpy has been a convenient way of finding reward seat availability on British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. It is by far the easiest way of seeing Avios and Virgin Points reward .....

For two years now, SeatSpy has been a convenient way of finding reward seat availability on British Airways .....

11 Apr 202211 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 34 comments

Avis has launched a decent Avios bonus offer if you are planning to rent a car before the end of June. You will receive 8 Avios per £1 spent on your rental. This compares to the standard rate of 5 .....

Avis has launched a decent Avios bonus offer if you are planning to rent a car before the end of June. You .....

11 Apr 202211 April 2022 by Rob Burgess

Barclaycard and Barclays have just launched what are, easily, the richest Avios promotional deals we have ever seen.

Barclaycard and Barclays have just launched what are, easily, the richest Avios promotional deals we have ever .....

10 Apr 202210 April 2022 by Rob Burgess

A reader recently got in touch with his experience flying British Airways with a seven month old after Sinead’s recent article about flying Singapore Airlines with an infant. I don’t have .....

A reader recently got in touch with his experience flying British Airways with a seven month old after .....

9 Apr 20229 April 2022 by Rhys Jones • 84 comments

With British Airways likely to experience a wave of bad publicity over the next few days as the Easter travel peak pushes its understaffed operations to the limit, it is an intriguing time to be .....

With British Airways likely to experience a wave of bad publicity over the next few days as the Easter travel .....

9 Apr 20229 April 2022 by Rob Burgess

British Airways has, it seems, lost confidence in the Asian market and its ability to open up post pandemic. A range of service cuts have been made this week. Most importantly for the leisure market, .....

British Airways has, it seems, lost confidence in the Asian market and its ability to open up post pandemic. A .....

9 Apr 20229 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 126 comments

News in brief: Bonus Avios offer for holders of the free BA Amex card If you have the free British Airways American Express credit card, you may be targetted for a ‘bonus Avios’ offer. .....

News in brief: Bonus Avios offer for holders of the free BA Amex card If you have the free British Airways .....

8 Apr 20228 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 44 comments

News in brief: British Airways peak/off-peak Avios analysis A couple of weeks ago we published the British Airways peak and off peak calendar for Avios redemptions in 2023. Our friend Andrew has taken .....

News in brief: British Airways peak/off-peak Avios analysis A couple of weeks ago we published the British .....

6 Apr 20226 April 2022 by Rhys Jones • 23 comments

2020 was to be an important year for British Airways and American Airlines as their transatlantic joint venture (together with Finnair and Iberia) was up for renewal with competition regulators. .....

2020 was to be an important year for British Airways and American Airlines as their transatlantic joint .....

5 Apr 20225 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 37 comments

Accor Hotels, which owns Novotel / Ibis / Mercure / M Gallery / Sofitel / Pullman / Raffles / Swissotel / Fairmont etc, has brought back its generous promotion to earn 6,000 bonus Accor points. You .....

Accor Hotels, which owns Novotel / Ibis / Mercure / M Gallery / Sofitel / Pullman / Raffles / Swissotel / .....

1 Apr 20221 April 2022 by Rob Burgess • 15 comments

British Airways never, ever, does status matches from other airlines. (Well, if you are a multinational switching from another alliance to BA they will do it for top staff, but apart from that .....

British Airways never, ever, does status matches from other airlines. (Well, if you are a multinational .....

31 Mar 202231 March 2022 by Rob Burgess • 87 comments