For the first time in 31 years, you’ll be able to fly Air Canada from London (UK) to Mumbai. For the past few decades, Air Canada has been operating direct flights between Toronto and Mumbai .....

For the first time in 31 years, you’ll be able to fly Air Canada from London (UK) to Mumbai. For the .....

21 Jun 202221 June 2022 by Rhys Jones

JetBlue has finally managed to obtain some permanent slots for its Heathrow flights. The new slots will come into play with the transition into the Winter schedule on the 29th October this year, and .....

JetBlue has finally managed to obtain some permanent slots for its Heathrow flights. The new slots will come .....

21 Jun 202221 June 2022 by Rhys Jones • 27 comments

This is our review of the Fairmont hotel in Austin, Texas. After my celebratory inaugural flight to the Texas capital – you can read my review of Virgin Atlantic Upper Class on the 787 here .....

This is our review of the Fairmont hotel in Austin, Texas. After my celebratory inaugural flight to the Texas .....

21 Jun 202221 June 2022 by Rhys Jones • 70 comments

Oman Air announced today that it is joining the oneworld airline alliance, alongside British Airways. We knew that the airline was interested in signing up but there was no sign that discussions were .....

Oman Air announced today that it is joining the oneworld airline alliance, alongside British Airways. We knew .....

20 Jun 202220 June 2022 by Rob Burgess • 59 comments

This is our review of Virgin Atlantic’s Upper Class seat on the Boeing 787-9 service from Heathrow to Austin. Virgin Atlantic invited us to the inaugural flight to Austin – Virgin’s .....

This is our review of Virgin Atlantic’s Upper Class seat on the Boeing 787-9 service from Heathrow to .....

20 Jun 202220 June 2022 by Rhys Jones • 71 comments

If you have a British Airways American Express card, which is the case for the majority of our UK readers, you may have received an email from Amex last week. It offered you a special 10% discount off .....

If you have a British Airways American Express card, which is the case for the majority of our UK readers, you .....

20 Jun 202220 June 2022 by Rob Burgess

We don’t normally write about hotel projects which are some years from completion, but as I recently ran a long review of the new The St Regis Venice hotel I thought this was worth mentioning. .....

We don’t normally write about hotel projects which are some years from completion, but as I recently ran .....

20 Jun 202220 June 2022 by Rob Burgess • 8 comments

Virgin Atlantic has a rare feature that allows you to transfer your points into hotel loyalty schemes. The first thing to say is that it is VERY rare for an airline to allow you to transfer to a hotel .....

Virgin Atlantic has a rare feature that allows you to transfer your points into hotel loyalty schemes. The .....

20 Jun 202220 June 2022 by Rob Burgess • 34 comments

This is the second part of the updated article I began two weeks ago, discussing the best ways to ‘zero out’ loyalty card accounts which you want to abandon.  You need to remember that .....

This is the second part of the updated article I began two weeks ago, discussing the best ways to ‘zero .....

19 Jun 202219 June 2022 by Rob Burgess • 30 comments