News in brief: Your £50 Amazon Business voucher Last week we covered a very generous offer for anyone with their own SME. Amazon offered HFP readers a 50% discount on their next order (maximum discount £50) when they created a free Amazon Business account. See here […]
Iberia and Iberia Plus
Spanish airline Iberia is a sister company to British Airways and also offers Avios points via its Iberia Plus reward scheme. This leads to various opportunities to arbitrage the best of the BA and Iberia programmes. One article worth reading is this one on how to make substantial tax savings by booking Iberia redemptions on Iberia.com rather than ba.com. You can find out more about the Iberia Plus scheme on Iberia.com.
Bits: those £50 Amazon vouchers, 1.1p Groupon Avios back again, Accor buys 3 top London hotels
12 October 2018 By
Earn 9,000 Avios for a 3-day Avis weekend car rental!
8 October 2018 By
Avios (through Iberia Plus) and Avis have teamed up to offer another generous car rental promotion. It’s nowhere near as good as the ‘18,000 Avios for a weekend rental’ offer they ran 18 months ago but it is certainly pretty decent. Full details can be found […]
Bits: New Gatwick South lounge, InterContinental San Diego opens, use Avios on Interjet in Mexico
21 September 2018 By
News in brief: New Priority Pass lounge coming to BA’s Gatwick South terminal As many HFP readers know, the independent airport lounge in Gatwick’s South terminal, No 1 Lounge, is a victim of its own success. Whilst the lounge is part of Priority Pass and […]
Bits: buy Avios from 0.85p via Groupon Spain (again), Lufthansa Premium Economy sale to Asia
16 September 2018 By
News in brief: More 1p Avios via Groupon Spain Groupon has launched another cheap Avios promotion in Spain, with Iberia Plus. Click here for details. Here are the prices: 2,000 Iberia Plus Avios for €19 (0.85p) 4,000 Iberia Plus Avios for €54 (1.2p) 8,000 Iberia Plus […]
Bits: BA ‘Buy on Board’ coffee goes up!, Iberia rolls out Premium Economy, see a concert in Berlin with Marriott
12 September 2018 By
News in brief: British Airways ‘buy on board’ tea and coffee prices up! British Airways has put through some inflation-busting price increases for its ‘buy on board’ tea and coffee. The new menu is online here. The January 2017 menu is in this HFP article […]
Bits: Amex MR now 2:3 to Marriott, more Hilton McLaren factory tours, Iberia adds Buenos Aires and Mexico City
21 August 2018 By
News in brief: American Express Membership Rewards rate to Marriott / Starwood confirmed This is not unexpected, but it is good to have it confirmed. The American Express Membership Rewards hotel transfers page (click here) has been updated to show that transfers to the new […]
Let’s be clear ….. avios.com is NOT closing. Your questions answered.
20 August 2018 By
A disproportionate percentage of my inbox in the last 6-8 weeks has been on the topic of the closure of the avios.com website. Despite (or perhaps because of) the correspondence from British Airways and Avios on this subject, there is substantial confusion over what is […]
My review of Iberia’s refurbished Velazquez lounge at Madrid Terminal 4S
9 August 2018 By
This is my review of the refurbished Iberia Velazquez lounge in Madrid Terminal 4S. Iberia is in the process of refurbishing its two main lounges in Madrid. The Velazquez lounge in 4S, which is where you will often end up if flying British Airways, has […]
My review of business class on Iberia’s brand new A350 (coming to BA’s A350’s?)
31 July 2018 By
This is my review of business class on the new Iberia A350. Ten days ago Iberia‘s first A350-900 long-haul aircraft went into operation, flying between London and Madrid for crew training before it is introduced on the New York route next week. Last Wednesday and […]
Bits: Amex transfers to SPG suspended, Hilton ‘double points’ extended, our IHG points winner, MoS
30 July 2018 By
News in brief: American Express suspends Starwood Membership Rewards transfers American Express Membership Rewards has suspended transfers into Starwood Preferred Guest until 8th August. This is inconvenient if you were hoping to pick up a Marriott Travel Package before they shoot up in price on 18th […]
Avios from the Iberia ‘90,000 Avios’ promotion CAN now be transferred to British Airways
28 July 2018 By
Many Head for Points readers took part in the Iberia ‘90,000 Avios for booking 10 one-way Iberia flights you didn’t have to fly’ promotion a few weeks ago. You can read about it here, here and here. This was a crazy offer, to put it […]
Bits: new ‘buy Avios’ promo, use Priority Pass for a whisky tasting, Tesco Clubcard conversion competition
23 July 2018 By
News in brief: New ‘buy Avios’ promo launches today British Airways Executive Club is launching a new ‘buy Avios’ promotion today. It will also apply if you gift Avios to someone else. BA has lifted the annual purchase limit to 200,000 Avios as part of […]
Why are BA Singapore redemptions pricier via Iberia – and are there others?
19 July 2018 By
EDIT: Iberia fixed this within the day! Such is the power of HFP 🙂 An interesting quirk with the Iberia Avios redemption chart was picked up in this thread on Flyertalk. For some reason Singapore, when flying BA, is in a more expensive redemption zone than […]
Bits: see you at the party tonight; new Iberia ‘9000 Avios promo’ developments
9 July 2018 By
News in brief: The HFP Summer Party is tonight! Anika and I look forward to seeing 250 of you tonight at the first Head for Points Summer Party, sponsored by Etihad Airways If you bought a ticket you should have received an email on Friday […]
Bits: 45% bonus buying IB Avios, 10 most lucrative air routes, BA ‘Upgrade to First’ is back
7 July 2018 By
News in brief: Up to 45% bonus when you buy Avios via Iberia Plus Until 15th July, Iberia Plus is offering a bonus when you buy Avios. These can be transfered across to British Airways Executive Club via ‘Combine My Avios’. (Read this article for […]
How to spend your 90,000 Iberia Plus Avios – as you can’t move them to BA (Part 1)
5 July 2018 By
If you took part in what was (effectively) Iberia’s “buy 90,000 Avios for £200” promotion two weeks ago, you should now have 90,000 Avios sitting in your Iberia Plus account. Now comes the snag. Despite what Iberia told me and other frequent flyer writers, you […]
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