You can pick up a generous €350 hotel credit if you book selected Marriott hotels and resorts for a week in the current BA Holidays sale. It is always worth looking at the British Airways 'Flight + .....

You can pick up a generous €350 hotel credit if you book selected Marriott hotels and resorts for a week in .....

20 Jan 202120 January 2021 by Sinead Archer • 55 comments

There have been a flurry of Loganair announcements recently, with two coming yesterday. Firstly, Loganair is to launch a service from Teesside Airport to London Heathrow on 8th March. There will be .....

There have been a flurry of Loganair announcements recently, with two coming yesterday. Firstly, Loganair is .....

19 Jan 202119 January 2021 by Rob Burgess

According to paxex.aero, which specialises in this sort of news, British Airways has completed the roll-out and activation of wi-fi on its short haul fleet. British Airways is using the European .....

According to paxex.aero, which specialises in this sort of news, British Airways has completed the roll-out .....

19 Jan 202119 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 36 comments

A while ago, pre covid, we were with some friends when the conversation turned, as it always does when the other person is a traveller, to miles and points. The wife was unleashing her frustration .....

A while ago, pre covid, we were with some friends when the conversation turned, as it always does when the .....

18 Jan 202118 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 9 comments

Hopefully you don’t need a reminder, but tomorrow – Monday – is your last day to convert Tesco Clubcard points to Avios. Transfers must be initiated on the Clubcard website by .....

Hopefully you don’t need a reminder, but tomorrow – Monday – is your last day to convert .....

17 Jan 202117 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 112 comments

If you were impacted by the British Airways data breach in 2018, things are starting to get interesting. Between June and 5th September 2018, the data of people making a transaction at ba.com or BA .....

If you were impacted by the British Airways data breach in 2018, things are starting to get interesting. .....

14 Jan 202114 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 170 comments

British Airways has teamed up with luxury suitcase brand Globe-Trotter for a limited edition range of luggage. The handmade carry-on suitcases celebrate the retirement of the Boeing 747 from .....

British Airways has teamed up with luxury suitcase brand Globe-Trotter for a limited edition range of luggage. .....

14 Jan 202114 January 2021 by Rhys Jones • 29 comments

Virgin Atlantic has decided to take the fight to British Airways for your 2021 bookings by offering a status match to Executive Club members. You can find full details, and apply, on this page of the .....

Virgin Atlantic has decided to take the fight to British Airways for your 2021 bookings by offering a status .....

11 Jan 202111 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 117 comments

As we covered here, British Airways snuck out an announcement to the Stock Exchange on New Years Eve to say that it had secured a £2.0 billion five year loan. This is a soft loan which carries a UK .....

As we covered here, British Airways snuck out an announcement to the Stock Exchange on New Years Eve to say .....

11 Jan 202111 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 16 comments

Good news: British Airways is making genuine improvements to its short haul catering. It turns out that the news that British Airways would be dropping Marks & Spencer products is part of a larger .....

Good news: British Airways is making genuine improvements to its short haul catering. It turns out that the .....

8 Jan 20218 January 2021 by Rhys Jones • 134 comments

British Airways Holidays is now offering additional sale savings of up to a further £100 off. However, these discounts are only available between now and 12th January. The offer works like this. Book .....

British Airways Holidays is now offering additional sale savings of up to a further £100 off. However, these .....

8 Jan 20218 January 2021 by Sinead Archer • 14 comments

I am back in the UK after 17 nights in the Middle East over Christmas and New Year. We stayed in seven different rooms in five different hotels (long story ….) but luckily for you I am not .....

I am back in the UK after 17 nights in the Middle East over Christmas and New Year. We stayed in seven .....

7 Jan 20217 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 95 comments

You will probably have seen in the national media that Qatar has reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates to end the three year blockade of Doha. I will .....

You will probably have seen in the national media that Qatar has reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia, .....

6 Jan 20216 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 45 comments

I am often asked for my thoughts on how to value an Avios point.  In our articles we use 1p as a ball-park figure, and it is the value I use myself, but the real world is more complicated. For the .....

I am often asked for my thoughts on how to value an Avios point.  In our articles we use 1p as a ball-park .....

5 Jan 20215 January 2021 by Rob Burgess • 60 comments