Newsstand was introduced to the iPhone and iPad with iOS5, as a depository for downloaded magazine and newspaper subscriptions. Over the last year, a number of airlines have added their inflight .....

Newsstand was introduced to the iPhone and iPad with iOS5, as a depository for downloaded magazine and .....

2 Sep 20122 September 2012 by Rob Burgess

This is the sixth of my series series of posts looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether of not they are worth applying for. These posts will be linked to the .....

This is the sixth of my series series of posts looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and .....

25 Aug 201225 August 2012 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments

Head for Points is hitting the beach today for a few days. This beach, to be precise, which may look unlike any other beach you have ever visited: There will still be new posts to read each day, so .....

Head for Points is hitting the beach today for a few days. This beach, to be precise, which may look unlike .....

24 Aug 201224 August 2012 by Rob Burgess • 2 comments

I posted a couple of weeks ago about my successful status match from my BA Gold card to Turkish Airlines. As Turkish Airlines is a member of Star Alliance, I now have lounge access across ALL 27 Star .....

I posted a couple of weeks ago about my successful status match from my BA Gold card to Turkish Airlines. As .....

22 Aug 201222 August 2012 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments

I’m not sure how many Head for Points readers are Monarch travellers, but the airline is offering £5 to £20 off return flights with travel dates before March 2013. You need to use promo code .....

I’m not sure how many Head for Points readers are Monarch travellers, but the airline is offering £5 to .....

19 Aug 201219 August 2012 by Rob Burgess

Airport services company Servisair operates a number of independent airport lounges across the UK, under the Servisair and Aspire brands.  You are most likely to have come across them if you have a .....

Airport services company Servisair operates a number of independent airport lounges across the UK, under the .....

14 Aug 201214 August 2012 by Rob Burgess • 6 comments

This is slightly OT for a frequent flyer site, but it is the weekend. On my way to the Olympic beach volleyball the other day (!), I popped into Christies auction house on King Street in Mayfair.  .....

This is slightly OT for a frequent flyer site, but it is the weekend. On my way to the Olympic beach .....

5 Aug 20125 August 2012 by Rob Burgess

There were some interesting fun and games going on during Sunday, and I don’t mean down at the Olympic Park. On View from the Wing on Sunday, Gary Leff posted an unbelievably juicy .....

There were some interesting fun and games going on during Sunday, and I don’t mean down at the Olympic .....

31 Jul 201231 July 2012 by Rob Burgess • 2 comments

If you’ve never seen “Frequent Flyer – The Video”, then you really must.  It has been a couple of years since Gabriel Leigh made it, I think as a graduation project in the .....

If you’ve never seen “Frequent Flyer – The Video”, then you really must.  It has .....

15 Jul 201215 July 2012 by Rob Burgess • 1 comment

I was very surprised, when BA’s takeover of BMI was completed, that there was not a formal status match announced by the Star Alliance airlines.  After all, because of BMI’s exceedingly .....

I was very surprised, when BA’s takeover of BMI was completed, that there was not a formal status match .....

12 Jul 201212 July 2012 by Rob Burgess • 2 comments

We’ve all been there, I think.  You have enough points to stay in a luxury hotel, but you are worried about the cost of food, drink and other extras once you are there.  One .....

We’ve all been there, I think.  You have enough points to stay in a luxury hotel, but you are .....

18 Jun 201218 June 2012 by Rob Burgess

I was hoping to write something interesting about my visit to Business Travel Market 2012 at the Excel Centre in London, but I can’t. This show just gets worse every year both in terms of the .....

I was hoping to write something interesting about my visit to Business Travel Market 2012 at the Excel Centre .....

14 Jun 201214 June 2012 by Rob Burgess

HfP does not do trip reports, in general.  However, we have just returned from 10 nights at Sandy Lane in Barbados and as this hotel has a fairly high profile (mainly due to the celebrities who .....

HfP does not do trip reports, in general.  However, we have just returned from 10 nights at Sandy Lane in .....

10 Jun 201210 June 2012 by Rob Burgess