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Egyptair to launch Manchester flights

Egyptair is adding a new route between Manchester and Cairo. Whilst it hasn’t opened up for booking on the Egyptair website, it does show in the online timetable. Flights are shown as starting .....

Egyptair is adding a new route between Manchester and Cairo. Whilst it hasn’t opened up for booking on .....

by Rob Burgess

Norse Atlantic launches three seasonal Caribbean routes from London Gatwick

One of the nails in Norwegian’s coffin was that it chose to fly long haul routes from London Gatwick with strong seasonality on a year-round basis. Norse Atlantic, which has (literally) .....

One of the nails in Norwegian’s coffin was that it chose to fly long haul routes from London Gatwick .....

by Rhys Jones

The second wave of Heathrow security strikes is on

Today (Thursday) is the first day of the new wave of strikes by Heathrow Terminal 5 security staff. The strikes will run on 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 25th, 26th and 27th May. Disruption for most .....

Today (Thursday) is the first day of the new wave of strikes by Heathrow Terminal 5 security staff. The .....

by Rob Burgess

(OVERTAKEN BY EVENTS) USA to retain coronavirus vaccination rules for travellers

EDIT: This story became redundant overnight when the Biden administration chose to overrule the CDC and remove vaccination requirements from 11th May. The official release is here. The current .....

EDIT: This story became redundant overnight when the Biden administration chose to overrule the CDC and remove .....

by Rob Burgess

The weekly Head for Points travel trade newsletter

Welcome to your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as our latest reviews and features. You are receiving this as a previous subscriber to Malcolm .....

Welcome to your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as our latest .....

by Rob Burgess

Here’s the full HfP index of articles for April 2023

Here is a full list of the articles we published in April 2023.  Click through to read them in full: If you cancel Platinum, the Amex Rewards Card keeps your points alive What happened to our Hilton .....

Here is a full list of the articles we published in April 2023.  Click through to read them in full: If you .....

by HfP team

Important dates for your diary – offers about to close which you shouldn’t miss

The aim of this feature is to summarise flight, hotel and points offers that are ending soon.  Everything listed below has been covered on HfP in recent weeks, but years of experience of running .....

The aim of this feature is to summarise flight, hotel and points offers that are ending soon.  Everything .....

by HfP team

What you missed on Head for Points last week

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. Whilst we encourage email readers to sign up to our daily emails so that you don’t miss out on any short-notice deals or offers, we also offer this weekly summary .....

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. Whilst we encourage email readers to sign up to our daily emails so that .....

by Rhys Jones

London Gatwick gets a new logo

Bored of its old, cursive logo, London Gatwick airport has decided it needs to rebrand with something equally …. dull. According to the press release, the new logo “acknowledges the .....

Bored of its old, cursive logo, London Gatwick airport has decided it needs to rebrand with something equally .....

by Rhys Jones

London’s Hard Rock Hotel rebrands

The Hard Rock Hotel in London is to rebrand. The hotel was historically known as The Cumberland. It was fully renovated before reopening as the Hard Rock Hotel in mid 2019. It will now revert to The .....

The Hard Rock Hotel in London is to rebrand. The hotel was historically known as The Cumberland. It was fully .....

by Rob Burgess

The weekly Head for Points travel trade newsletter

Welcome to your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as our latest reviews and features. You are receiving this as a previous subscriber to Malcolm .....

Welcome to your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as our latest .....

by Rob Burgess

What you missed on Head for Points last week

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. Whilst we encourage email readers to sign up to our daily emails so that you don’t miss out on any short-notice deals or offers, we also offer this weekly summary .....

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. Whilst we encourage email readers to sign up to our daily emails so that .....

by Rhys Jones

Loganair adds flights from London Heathrow to Dundee and Derry

Loganair is growing its Heathrow presence, with two new routes to add to the existing Isle of Man service. There is a big push on City of Derry, with three flights per day Monday to Friday and two per .....

Loganair is growing its Heathrow presence, with two new routes to add to the existing Isle of Man service. .....

by Rob Burgess

5% UK hotel service charges seem to be spreading

18 months ago, we wrote about an annoying new habit turning up at high-end London hotels – an ‘optional’ 5% service charge. With London’s top hotels now selling for over .....

18 months ago, we wrote about an annoying new habit turning up at high-end London hotels – an .....

by Rob Burgess

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