Hotel booking site Rocketmiles is currently running an EXCELLENT ‘first user’ promotion which can earn you 5,000+ easy Avios, Virgin Flying Club or other airline miles from just one night. .....

28 September 2020 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments

In what appears to be an extremely harsh measure, given the position of Dubai and Abu Dhabi as tourist destinations and transit hubs, the UAE has announced that no-one will be allowed to board a .....

28 July 2020 by Rob Burgess • 90 comments

We ran two articles last week on Qantas Frequent Flyer joining UK American Express Membership Rewards as a transfer partner. This article is an overview of Qantas Frequent Flyer and Membership .....

29 June 2020 by Rob Burgess • 11 comments

On Monday, Qantas Frequent Flyer became a partner of American Express Membership Rewards in the UK. As promised, I wanted to answer the question: what are the best ways to spend Qantas Frequent Flyer .....

24 June 2020 by Rob Burgess • 36 comments

Hotel booking site Rocketmiles has brought back its EXCELLENT ‘first user’ promotion which can earn you 5,000+ easy Avios, Virgin Flying Club or other airline miles from just one night. .....

11 June 2020 by Rob Burgess • 23 comments

The Emirates First Class Suite on the Boeing 777-300ER fleet fights it out with the new Singapore Airlines A380 First Class suite for the title of ‘Best First Class’. Singapore Airlines .....

10 June 2020 by Rob Burgess • 21 comments

Emirates has a lot of high quality partnerships such as its established deal with Qantas.  It also works with many other well regarded legacy airlines such as JAL, giving members of the .....

9 June 2020 by Rob Burgess • 7 comments

Emirates Skywards has, with no announcement, made large cuts to the taxes and charges it adds to redemption flights. Emirates Skywards, as a loyalty scheme, didn’t have much going for it.  As .....

2 June 2020 by Rob Burgess • 34 comments

A reader recently got in touch to suggest we write an article on how you are protected if you book cash flights now for later this year or early 2021. It was a good idea.  After all, you may wish to .....

1 June 2020 by Rhys Jones • 70 comments

The Qatar Airways status match has been extended ….. again! It was due to end on Saturday but has now been pushed back to midnight UK time on Wednesday 27th May.  The list of .....

26 May 2020 by Rob Burgess • 14 comments

The Qatar Airways status match has changed ….. again! They have added back South African Airways and Singapore Airlines.  Virgin Australia remains missing.  It has also been extended .....

22 May 2020 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments

EDIT: Emirates has changed its mind again.  It now looks as if all passengers services, including the UK, WILL be suspended from Wednesday. The Middle Eastern airlines have, so far, been doing their .....

23 March 2020 by Rob Burgess • 29 comments

Almost all hotel loyalty programmes let you transfer you points into certain frequent flyer schemes.  What is far rarer is for a frequent flyer scheme to let you transfer your miles INTO a hotel .....

6 March 2020 by Rob Burgess • 22 comments

On Tuesday I did an article bemoaning the lack of good hotel loyalty promotions at present.  There are only two options: Hilton Honors – 2,000 bonus points per stay (register) Radisson Rewards .....

30 January 2020 by Rob Burgess • 16 comments