News in brief: British Airways running 747’s on domestic services for a day British Airways seems to be planning a few events for the late August Bank Holiday weekend because Sunday 25th August is ‘the’ day for the 100th birthday celebrations. (This assumes you are […]
Emirates and Emirates Skywards
Skywards is the loyalty scheme for Emirates Airline. The articles below outline the best ways of earning and spending your points if you are based in the UK. For further information on Emirates and Skywards, visit their website here.
Bits: BA scheduling 747’s on domestics for a day, see Queen’s Club tennis with Emirates
2 June 2019 By
Tickets for ALL ICC Cricket World Cup games available for Emirates Skywards miles
22 May 2019 By
Tickets for ALL of the ICC Cricket World Cup games have popped up for redemption with Emirates Skywards miles. (EDIT: Emirates has fixed the website bug and you can now redeem) I am not a cricket fan, by any means, so I can’t really comment […]
Get Rugby World Cup tickets with Emirates Skywards miles
18 May 2019 By
Emirates Skywards has made a LOT of tickets for the Rugby World Cup available for redemption with Skywards miles. You can find out more on this page of the Emirates site (log-in required). You need to look in two places – some tickets are being […]
Emirates wants to launch a new UK credit card
5 May 2019 By
Emirates wants to launch a new UK credit card – and they are serious enough to be asking people to pick a preferred design. Emirates sent out a survey to some UK members of Emirates Skywards last week. It offered entry to a prize draw […]
How Amex Membership Rewards members can buy miles for up to 50% off
20 April 2019 By
One of the lesser known features of the American Express Membership Rewards programme is the ability to buy up to 10,000 Membership Rewards points per year for 1.5p each. This facility is mentioned on the Amex website here – scroll down to Clause 3 – although […]
Get FA Cup Final tickets for your Emirates Skywards miles or Amex Membership Rewards points
18 April 2019 By
I thought I’d drop this in as an extra quick item as the tickets may not still be there on Friday morning. FA Cup Final tickets at Wembley have popped up for redemption with Emirates Skywards miles. They are NOT a bargain but if you can’t […]
Emirates offering French Open tennis tickets
17 April 2019 By
If you’ve always wanted to go to Wimbledon but never managed to get tickets, Emirates Skywards members can now access the next best thing – the French Open at Roland-Garros in Paris. Standard ground entry tickets cost from 7,000 to 15,000 miles per person depending […]
Save £50-£300 on Emirates flights to Japan
16 April 2019 By
Emirates has launched a special promotion linked to the Rugby World Cup. You can save: £300 in First Class £150 in Business Class £50 in Economy Class Flights must: be booked by 31st July for travel between 1st August and 31st December be to Tokyo […]
How to earn Avios and BA tier points when flying Emirates and one niche KLM route
15 April 2019 By
We spent most of yesterday travelling back to London from holiday, so with time tight I thought I’d roll out one of our older ‘how to’ articles that won’t be familiar to new HFP readers. One of the ‘things you didn’t know you didn’t know’ about […]
How to use small orphan amounts of miles and points – Part 2 (Airlines and Shopping)
8 April 2019 By
This is the second part of the updated article I began yesterday, discussing the best ways to ‘zero out’ loyalty card accounts which you want to abandon. You need to remember that you may first need to ‘top off’ an account by earning a few more […]
FA Cup semi-final tickets available for Emirates Skywards miles
22 March 2019 By
FA Cup semi-final tickets at Wembley have popped up for redemption with Emirates Skywards miles. They are NOT a bargain but if you can’t get tickets directly then this is your only option. Tickets are available in both sections of the ground, so there are four […]
Emirates adding a second Stansted service from June
14 March 2019 By
Those of use who were sceptical when Emirates announced its Stansted service last year – and you can count me amongst them – have been proved wrong. A 2nd daily service from Stansted to Dubai will launch on 1st July. Importantly, it will be another […]
£250 wine, £790 cognac – part 3 of my review of the new Emirates First Class suite on a Boeing 777-300ER
23 February 2019 By
This is the final part of my review of the Emirates First Class Suite on a Boeing 777-300ER. Part 1 of my Emirates First Class Suite review, which you can find here, talks about how I managed to book this ‘unbookable’ redemption and what it […]
Review of the new Emirates First Class suite on a Boeing 777-300ER! (Part 2)
21 February 2019 By
This is the 2nd part of my review of the Emirates First Class suite on a Boeing 777-300ER. Part 1 of my Emirates First Class Suite review, which ran on Tuesday and which you can find here, talks about how I managed to book this […]
Review of the new Emirates First Class suite on a Boeing 777-300ER! (Part 1)
19 February 2019 By
This is my review of the Emirates First Class suite on a Boeing 777-300ER. The review will run over three articles on different days. Today I want to look at the background to the trip and how I managed to book it. There was, at […]
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