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Review: the two Amex Cashback credit cards

This is my review of the American Express Platinum Cashback and American Express Platinum Cashback Everyday credit cards. Head for Points is primarily about earning airline miles or hotel loyalty .....

This is my review of the American Express Platinum Cashback and American Express Platinum Cashback Everyday .....

by Rob Burgess

How to get Star Alliance Gold for LIFE with Aegean Airlines

Apart from British Airways, Head for Points focusses more on mileage accumulation than status accumulation. However, it is certainly something that we DO cover, and it is about time that I ran an .....

Apart from British Airways, Head for Points focusses more on mileage accumulation than status accumulation. .....

by Rob Burgess30 comments

Why ‘what is best frequent flyer programme?’ is NEVER an easy question

A question which comes up time and again is a variant of ‘what is the best frequent flyer programme for me to join?’. This article, for example, is my stab at answering the question with .....

A question which comes up time and again is a variant of ‘what is the best frequent flyer programme for .....

by Rob Burgess34 comments

Google Street View tracks down some 3V cards in Watford!

Come on, bear with me, its August and there’s not as much as usual going on! (And I haven’t counted this in the ‘two articles a day’ I said I’d run during August!) Reader .....

Come on, bear with me, its August and there’s not as much as usual going on! (And I haven’t .....

by Rob Burgess67 comments

New 10% off Heathrow Express promotional code emerges

There used to be  lot of Heathrow Express discount codes knocking about.  It wasn’t so long ago, in fact, that they ran a permanent 2-4-1 deal through the Summer. Over the last year there .....

There used to be  lot of Heathrow Express discount codes knocking about.  It wasn’t so long ago, in .....

by Rob Burgess4 comments

Amex Currency Exchange closing down at Heathrow Terminal 5 today

Poor old British Airways.  Sometimes they just back the wrong horse. Back in September 2012, they moved their currency partnership away from Travelex and across to American Express Currency .....

Poor old British Airways.  Sometimes they just back the wrong horse. Back in September 2012, they moved their .....

by Rob Burgess18 comments

NatWest and RBS launch a half-hearted debit card cashback scheme

This is not strictly a ‘miles and points’ piece of news. However, it does include Tesco and it does touch on issues such as ‘should I use a credit card?’ so it is worth a .....

This is not strictly a ‘miles and points’ piece of news. However, it does include Tesco and it .....

by Rob Burgess5 comments

What are the best credit card deals for August 2013?

I have updated the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ page at the top of the site for August. It has been a relatively quiet month. The negatives outweighed the positive – no new bonuses were .....

I have updated the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ page at the top of the site for August. It has been a .....

by Rob Burgess15 comments

East Coast Rewards offering special 2nd birthday deals

East Coast Rewards is my preferred train travel reward scheme. As per this old article, I believe that it offers genuinely good value for money. You only need to spend £300 on First Class tickets to .....

East Coast Rewards is my preferred train travel reward scheme. As per this old article, I believe that it .....

by Rob Burgess9 comments

Earn £15 in redspottedhanky train ticket vouchers with Fantasy Football

During Wimbledon, regular readers will know that train ticket booking company redspottedhanky.com ran a fantasy tennis league. The better your players did, the more money you made – paid to you .....

During Wimbledon, regular readers will know that train ticket booking company redspottedhanky.com ran a .....

by Rob Burgess10 comments

Credit card companies team up with mobile companies to cut travel fraud

A couple of months ago I met a Head for Points reader who worked for a major mobile phone company who told me about an exciting new security product he was working on for the credit card industry.  .....

A couple of months ago I met a Head for Points reader who worked for a major mobile phone company who told .....

by Rob Burgess12 comments

Why the EU is planning to take away your Visa and Mastercard reward cards

This is a guest post, written by Andrew Seftel (although the sensationalist headline is mine!) to whom I am grateful.  You may recognise his name from the comments pages of Head for Points.  His .....

This is a guest post, written by Andrew Seftel (although the sensationalist headline is mine!) to whom I am .....

by Rob Burgess31 comments

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