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This is our review of the La Valette Club lounge in Malta International Airport. Malta International Airport is not big. In fact, it’s so small that it doesn’t have any jetbridges. It .....
This is our review of the La Valette Club lounge in Malta International Airport. Malta International Airport .....
25 May 202525 May 2025 • 18 comments
The number one question I get when I tell people what I do, after they comment that I have their ‘dream job’, is “how do you beat jet lag?” The answer I always give is that I .....
The number one question I get when I tell people what I do, after they comment that I have their ‘dream .....
24 May 202524 May 2025 • 169 comments
Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit card news, hints and tips. If you are not a subscriber, you can sign up to this free .....
Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit .....
24 May 202524 May 2025 • Leave a comment
As we wrote in March, Indian low-cost airline IndiGo is getting into the long haul market. Initially, it will damp-lease Norse Atlantic aircraft before taking delivery of its own long-haul fleet from .....
As we wrote in March, Indian low-cost airline IndiGo is getting into the long haul market. Initially, it will .....
23 May 202523 May 2025 • Leave a comment
easyJet’s steady roll out of new UK bases continues. From next March, it will base three aircraft at Newcastle International airport creating 130 jobs for pilots, crew and engineers in the area. .....
easyJet’s steady roll out of new UK bases continues. From next March, it will base three aircraft at .....
23 May 202523 May 2025 • 27 comments
As anyone who has ever taken a train will know, wi-fi and mobile reception is notoriously bad across the UK railways. Every time I jump on a train to leave London I spend more time with no connection .....
As anyone who has ever taken a train will know, wi-fi and mobile reception is notoriously bad across the UK .....
21 May 202521 May 2025 • 98 comments
On Sunday, London Gatwick airport gained another new route as Uganda Airlines launched non-stop flights to Entebbe. It marks the first time since October 2015 that there has been a direct service .....
On Sunday, London Gatwick airport gained another new route as Uganda Airlines launched non-stop flights to .....
20 May 202520 May 2025 • 19 comments
Welcome to the Head for Points frequent flyer glossary. We decided to launch this a couple of years ago after a reader dropped me a note asking if HfP had a page explaining some of the specialist .....
Welcome to the Head for Points frequent flyer glossary. We decided to launch this a couple of years ago after .....
19 May 202519 May 2025 • 87 comments
Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as the latest reviews and features from the Head for Points team. If you are not a .....
Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well .....
19 May 202519 May 2025
This is our review of The Hotel Maria in Helsinki. Long-term HfP readers may remember that we covered the opening of this hotel in December 2023. It was promoted as the first genuine luxury hotel in .....
This is our review of The Hotel Maria in Helsinki. Long-term HfP readers may remember that we covered the .....
17 May 202517 May 2025 • 20 comments
Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit card news, hints and tips. If you are not a subscriber, you can sign up to this free .....
Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit .....
17 May 202517 May 2025 • 2 comments
Whilst HfP readers may put the changes at British Airways Club down as the biggest loyalty disaster in recent times (although arguably Virgin Atlantic’s bodged move to dynamic redemption pricing .....
Whilst HfP readers may put the changes at British Airways Club down as the biggest loyalty disaster in recent .....
16 May 202516 May 2025 • 96 comments
Well, today’s the day! Global Airlines, an airline start-up founded by travel influencer James Asquith, is finally taking to the skies. The Global Airlines A380 will take off from Glasgow .....
Well, today’s the day! Global Airlines, an airline start-up founded by travel influencer James Asquith, .....
15 May 202515 May 2025 • 67 comments
We don’t usually cover credit cards which don’t earn points or miles on HfP. The clue, after all, is in the site name! However there are two key features of the Lloyds Bank World Elite .....
We don’t usually cover credit cards which don’t earn points or miles on HfP. The clue, after all, .....
12 May 202512 May 2025 • 67 comments
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