This is actually a serious article, although I accept that you may have your doubts …. When the Virgin Red app launched a few years ago as the new ‘home’ for Virgin Points, the .....

This is actually a serious article, although I accept that you may have your doubts …. When the Virgin .....

13 Jun 202413 June 2024 by Rob Burgess • 56 comments

Well, here’s a surprise. Virgin Hotels is coming to London with the opening of Virgin Hotels London Shoreditch on 1st August. With the opening date so close, this can only mean one thing .....

Well, here’s a surprise. Virgin Hotels is coming to London with the opening of Virgin Hotels London .....

12 Jun 202412 June 2024 by Rob Burgess • 7 comments

I thought it was worth digging out an interesting story which we first ran a couple of years ago and which highlights a quirk when it comes to cancelling Avios reward flights. A reader had flown to .....

I thought it was worth digging out an interesting story which we first ran a couple of years ago and which .....

12 Jun 202412 June 2024 by Rob Burgess • 111 comments

Last week Virgin Atlantic announced three new codeshare deals. Two of these – SAS and Saudia – were with SkyTeam (or future SkyTeam) partners so didn’t mean much in terms of earning .....

Last week Virgin Atlantic announced three new codeshare deals. Two of these – SAS and Saudia – .....

12 Jun 202412 June 2024 by Rob Burgess • 15 comments

This is our review of the Hilton Honors Plus debit card issued in the UK. It is part of our series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit and debit cards and discussing whether of not they .....

This is our review of the Hilton Honors Plus debit card issued in the UK. It is part of our series of articles .....

12 Jun 202412 June 2024 by Rob Burgess

Remember ebookers? Founded in 1998 as Flightbookers, the UK’s first online travel agent, it was quoted on the UK stock market at one point. In 2005 it was bought for $350m by Cendant, which took .....

Remember ebookers? Founded in 1998 as Flightbookers, the UK’s first online travel agent, it was quoted .....

12 Jun 202412 June 2024 by Rob Burgess • 19 comments

Comments about new airline business class seat launches on Head for Points often suggest that “all business class seats” are the same and that “innovation is over”. .....

Comments about new airline business class seat launches on Head for Points often suggest that “all .....

11 Jun 202411 June 2024 by Rhys Jones • 75 comments

For the first time in over a decade, Virgin Atlantic will operate to Canada. Flights to Toronto launch on 30th March 2025. Richard Branson joked that this was “third time lucky” for the .....

For the first time in over a decade, Virgin Atlantic will operate to Canada. Flights to Toronto launch on 30th .....

11 Jun 202411 June 2024 by Rhys Jones • 47 comments

This is our review of the Arts Hotel Porto, part of Hilton’s Tapestry Collection. Porto, and Portugal in general, has seen an upward trend in tourism, but until recently the number of hotel beds .....

This is our review of the Arts Hotel Porto, part of Hilton’s Tapestry Collection. Porto, and Portugal in .....

11 Jun 202411 June 2024 by Rhys Jones • 14 comments

This is our review of the Hilton Honors debit card issued in the UK. It is part of our series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit and debit cards and discussing whether of not they are .....

This is our review of the Hilton Honors debit card issued in the UK. It is part of our series of articles .....

11 Jun 202411 June 2024 by Rob Burgess

One of the oddities about the launch of Reward Flight Saver to Club World (Business Class) and World Traveller Plus 18 months ago was that First Class redemptions were excluded. There was no real .....

One of the oddities about the launch of Reward Flight Saver to Club World (Business Class) and World Traveller .....

10 Jun 202410 June 2024 by Rob Burgess • 63 comments

Marriott Bonvoy is currently offering the biggest ever sign-up bonus – 60,000 Marriott Bonvoy points – if you sign up for the Marriott Bonvoy American Express card by 3rd July. Because of the .....

Marriott Bonvoy is currently offering the biggest ever sign-up bonus – 60,000 Marriott Bonvoy points .....

10 Jun 202410 June 2024 by Rob Burgess • 16 comments

Expedia Group has announced that One Key, the new rewards programme, will launch in the UK from 8th July. It will be a staggered roll out, with all Expedia Rewards and Hotels.com Rewards accounts .....

Expedia Group has announced that One Key, the new rewards programme, will launch in the UK from 8th July. It .....

10 Jun 202410 June 2024 by Rob Burgess • 100 comments

Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as our latest reviews and features. If you are not a subscriber, you can sign up here to .....

Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well .....

10 Jun 202410 June 2024 by Rob Burgess