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