How can you use up a small Avios balance from a friend or family member who doesn’t want them? There may be people in your family who have a British Airways Executive Club account with a small .....

How can you use up a small Avios balance from a friend or family member who doesn’t want them? There may .....

13 Oct 202113 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 15 comments

For almost 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 .....

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

12 Oct 202112 October 2021 by Rhys Jones • 63 comments

We’ve run a few articles over the last couple of weeks showing routes where British Airways has surprisingly decent – by usual standards – Avios availability over Christmas. This is .....

We’ve run a few articles over the last couple of weeks showing routes where British Airways has .....

11 Oct 202111 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments

Wine delivery company Laithwaites is an Avios redemption partner.  With Christmas on the horizon and your flying potentially still symied until next year, you may be tempted by the idea of .....

Wine delivery company Laithwaites is an Avios redemption partner.  With Christmas on the horizon and your .....

9 Oct 20219 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 28 comments

We ran an article yesterday highlighting the unbelievable Avios reward space available in Club World to Dubai over Christmas and New Year. This was due to an extra British Airways service being added. .....

We ran an article yesterday highlighting the unbelievable Avios reward space available in Club World to Dubai .....

7 Oct 20217 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 22 comments

BALPA, the British Airways pilot union, has just released the result of its ballot into whether the pilot body should support the new BA low cost carrier at London Gatwick. Despite the proposal being .....

BALPA, the British Airways pilot union, has just released the result of its ballot into whether the pilot body .....

7 Oct 20217 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 30 comments

The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) announced this morning that it is dropping its attempts to force British Airways and Ryanair to refund passengers who could not take their flights due to .....

The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) announced this morning that it is dropping its attempts to force .....

7 Oct 20217 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 67 comments

British Airways has announced an extra Dubai service this morning. It starts on 8th December and appears to run until 9th January. Because this service has just been added to the booking system, Avios .....

British Airways has announced an extra Dubai service this morning. It starts on 8th December and appears to .....

6 Oct 20216 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 93 comments

One of the ‘things you didn’t know you didn’t know’ about frequent flyer miles is that it is possible to earn British Airways Avios and BA Executive Club tier .....

One of the ‘things you didn’t know you didn’t know’ about frequent flyer miles .....

6 Oct 20216 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 11 comments

If you need a sign that airline traffic is returning to normal – or at least that the airlines hope that it is returning to normal – here it is. According to internal scheduling documents .....

If you need a sign that airline traffic is returning to normal – or at least that the airlines hope that .....

4 Oct 20214 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 135 comments

The ‘will they, won’t they’ saga over the future of British Airways short-haul flights at Gatwick Airport has taken another twist. We had assumed that withdrawal from Gatwick was now .....

The ‘will they, won’t they’ saga over the future of British Airways short-haul flights at .....

3 Oct 20213 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 49 comments

Qatar Airways was, yet again, the big winner at the 2021 Skytrax airline awards. For better or worse, the Skytrax awards are seen as the benchmark in the industry. Whilst the Skytrax airline star .....

Qatar Airways was, yet again, the big winner at the 2021 Skytrax airline awards. For better or worse, the .....

1 Oct 20211 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 23 comments

British Airways has started the process of moving Gatwick short-haul flights for Summer 2022 to Heathrow. This follows the decision to close the short-haul operation at London Gatwick following the .....

British Airways has started the process of moving Gatwick short-haul flights for Summer 2022 to Heathrow. This .....

1 Oct 20211 October 2021 by Rob Burgess • 56 comments

British Airways sent out an email earlier this week about Household Accounts. As we covered in our article on BA Household Accounts yesterday, you will be unable to open, close or amend a Household .....

British Airways sent out an email earlier this week about Household Accounts. As we covered in our article on .....

30 Sep 202130 September 2021 by Rob Burgess • 60 comments