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 […]
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.
British Airways Osaka deal, and get a £100 Emirates / Amex credit
19 February 2019 By
News in brief: British Airways Club World deal to Osaka BA is offering a £1,999 deal on Club World seats to Osaka, but with very restricted dates. You need to travel between 1st and 15th April and book by 11th March. £100 Emirates statement credit […]
My review of the Emirates First Class lounge (Concourse B) at Dubai International Airport
17 February 2019 By
The article you really want to see – my review of Emirates First Class in the new private suites on the Boeing 777-300ER fleet – is on the way in a couple of days. Before that, however, I need to run through my disappointing visit […]
2,000+ Heathrow Rewards points with your first Rocketmiles hotel booking (converts to Avios and more)
21 January 2019 By
Heathrow Rewards, the Heathrow Airport shopping loyalty scheme, has an interesting partnership with hotel booking site Rocketmiles which can earn you 2,000+ easy Avios or other airline miles. What is Rocketmiles? Rocketmiles – if you are not familiar with it – is a similar website […]
Why the only thing better than transferable points is INSTANTLY transferable points
18 January 2019 By
One of the key ideas I push on Head for Points is that transferable, or convertible, points are better than non-transferable points. The best way to explain this is via American Express Membership Rewards points, earned from Amex Gold, Amex Platinum and the Amex Rewards […]
Bits: £1295 Qatar to Singapore ex-Sweden (560 tier points), Emirates scrapping chauffeurs on rewards, Aloft Dublin
8 January 2019 By
News in brief: £1295 Qatar Airways business class fare to Singapore Qatar Airways is currently offering a £1295 business class fare from Stockholm to Singapore. It is widely available for much of 2019 at SEK 14,700. On some dates I saw it as low as […]
Get 250 bonus Heathrow Rewards points (=250 miles) with every Heathrow Express purchase!
2 December 2018 By
(EDIT: some people are having trouble with points posting if they buy the cheapest £5.50 tickets. Reader feedback generally seems to be that they will appear but after a delay, whilst the bonus posts immediately for other ticket types.) Heathrow Rewards and Heathrow Express have […]
Odd redemption deals you might not know – Emirates & easyJet, Etihad and Flybe
18 October 2018 By
Emirates and Etihad, the two major UAE airlines, have a lot of high quality partnerships such as the Emirates deal with Qantas. They have have some lower quality or just plain weird partnerships. Two of the oddest are: the Emirates partnership with easyJet, now six […]
Bits: see O2 tennis with Emirates or Amex, Delta increases Heathrow services, Caledonian Sleeper upgrade delayed
4 October 2018 By
News in brief: See ATP tennis at the O2 with Emirates miles or Amex Membership Rewards points Emirates Skywards is currently offering standard and VIP tickets to the Nitto ATP tennis tournament at the O2 in November. The tournament runs from the 11th – 18th […]
Get up to 15,000 Heathrow Rewards points (=15,000 miles) with jewellery, watches and technology
1 October 2018 By
There is good news for Avios, Virgin Flying Club, Emirates Skywards, Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer, Aegean Miles+Bonus, Royal Brunei Royal Skies and Lufthansa Miles & More members! Today, 1st October, Heathrow Rewards is launching its annual bonus promotion on electronics, watches and jewellery, keen to tap […]
Bits: fuel surcharges returning to Hong Kong flights, see ATP tennis with Emirates miles or Amex points
23 September 2018 By
News in brief: Fuel surcharges returning to one-way Avios redemptions from Hong Kong Since February 2016, airlines have not been able to add fuel surcharges on flights departing from Hong Kong when the journey originates there. This has led to substantial tax savings if you […]
Bits: BA expands connection car transfers, €1546 Emirates A380 to Bangkok (or BA €1451), more on Auckland
19 September 2018 By
News in brief: British Airways extends car transfers for late connections British Airways has announced an extension of its chauffeur driven executive car connection service at Heathrow. Passengers travelling in First, Club World or Club Europe, plus British Airways Gold and Silver Executive Club members […]
20 Arsenal games now bookable with Emirates miles or Amex points – from just 5000 miles!
5 September 2018 By
Slightly later than usual, Emirates Skywards loaded the full 2018/9 schedule of Arsenal FC tickets onto its website on Wednesday morning. You can redeem via the Skywards website here. (They also have tickets for AC Milan, SL Benfica, Real Madrid, Hamburger and Paris Saint-Germain, but […]
50% bonus on Heathrow Rewards transfers to Emirates Skywards – sign-up promo worth 4,500 miles
2 September 2018 By
Heathrow Rewards, the loyalty scheme for shopping at Heathrow, has launched a 50% bonus on transfers to Emirates Skywards. The offer is clearly flagged on the Heathrow Rewards site when you log in. This offer ONLY applies to Emirates Skywards and does not apply to: […]
Which airlines let you transfer miles INTO hotel loyalty programmes?
24 August 2018 By
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 points INTO a hotel programme. This didn’t used to be the case. If you go […]
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