This is my review of Air France business class, flying a Boeing 777-300ER from Paris to Dubai. Last month I headed down to the Middle East for half term with my family. Instead of flying British .....

This is my review of Air France business class, flying a Boeing 777-300ER from Paris to Dubai. Last month I .....

28 Nov 202228 November 2022 by Rob Burgess • 45 comments

The Black Friday flight and hotel deals we’ve covered over the last couple of days have been, to put it politely, average. Things are picking up a little today – Monday 28th November only .....

The Black Friday flight and hotel deals we’ve covered over the last couple of days have been, to put it .....

28 Nov 202228 November 2022 by Rob Burgess • 34 comments

For the past few weeks, exceptional new Avios bonuses from Barclays and Barclaycard are currently running – see here. You will receive 100,000 bonus Avios – on top of the already generous .....

For the past few weeks, exceptional new Avios bonuses from Barclays and Barclaycard are currently running .....

28 Nov 202228 November 2022 by Rob Burgess • 126 comments

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 .....

28 Nov 202228 November 2022 by Rob Burgess • 5 comments

This article looks at how to book Oman Air flights using frequent flyer miles. In 2019 I did a trip to Oman, a country I had wanted to visit for some time, with Oman Air.  I had planned to return .....

This article looks at how to book Oman Air flights using frequent flyer miles. In 2019 I did a trip to Oman, a .....

27 Nov 202227 November 2022 by Rob Burgess • 11 comments

This is my review of the Air France lounge at Terminal 2E (L gates) at Paris Charles de Gaulle.  The lounge opened in 2018 and is impressive, although busy. I will be following it up with a .....

This is my review of the Air France lounge at Terminal 2E (L gates) at Paris Charles de Gaulle.  The .....

27 Nov 202227 November 2022 by Rob Burgess • 32 comments

This is our review of the Barclaycard Select Cashback credit card for sole traders and small businesses. Key link: Barclaycard Select Cashback credit card application form Key facts: No annual fee .....

This is our review of the Barclaycard Select Cashback credit card for sole traders and small businesses. Key .....

27 Nov 202227 November 2022 by Rob Burgess

When anyone mentions the A380, you think of Emirates. This isn’t surprising, of course. Emirates is by far the bigger user of the aircraft and built its entire business model around the double .....

When anyone mentions the A380, you think of Emirates. This isn’t surprising, of course. Emirates is by .....

27 Nov 202227 November 2022 by Rob Burgess • 60 comments

There is something about the lure of commercial aviation that continues to attract new entrants in a disproportionate way, given the high capital costs. Looked at cold heartedly, it makes little .....

There is something about the lure of commercial aviation that continues to attract new entrants in a .....

26 Nov 202226 November 2022 by Rob Burgess • 44 comments

This is our review of the Aerotel Singapore hotel. ‘Aerotel’ is airport hotel brand from Plaza Premium, the independent lounge group. A few years ago, I reviewed one of the newest .....

This is our review of the Aerotel Singapore hotel. ‘Aerotel’ is airport hotel brand from Plaza .....

26 Nov 202226 November 2022 by Rhys Jones • 28 comments

Four years after it resigned from the SkyTeam airline alliance, there are renewed rumours that China Southern may join the oneworld grouping. This would make it an Avios earning and redemption .....

Four years after it resigned from the SkyTeam airline alliance, there are renewed rumours that China Southern .....

26 Nov 202226 November 2022 by Rob Burgess • 13 comments

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 .....

26 Nov 202226 November 2022 by Rhys Jones

As I said in our round-up of Black Friday deals earlier today, there isn’t much happening on the ‘cheap flights’ front from the UK. However, Luxury Flight Club has picked up on an .....

As I said in our round-up of Black Friday deals earlier today, there isn’t much happening on the .....

25 Nov 202225 November 2022 by Rob Burgess • 19 comments

I said we’d do an extra Black Friday article if anything interesting cropped up and (thanks to readers for the info) there are two interesting gift card deals worth flagging. The first is .....

I said we’d do an extra Black Friday article if anything interesting cropped up and (thanks to readers .....

25 Nov 202225 November 2022 by Rob Burgess • 28 comments