IAG, the parent company of British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, LEVEL and Vueling, published its first half results on Friday. There wasn’t much in it to justify a full article, although its .....

IAG, the parent company of British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, LEVEL and Vueling, published its first half .....

31 Jul 202231 July 2022 by Rob Burgess • 39 comments

Virgin Money is still running a strong Virgin Points offer for its Virgin Money current account. This is the highest bonus ever offered. I wanted to flag this offer again as the interest rate on the .....

Virgin Money is still running a strong Virgin Points offer for its Virgin Money current account. This is the .....

31 Jul 202231 July 2022 by Rob Burgess • 39 comments

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 .....

31 Jul 202231 July 2022 by HfP team • 3 comments

A couple of weeks ago, American Express launched a new cashback deal with PayPal which is well worth a look. This is an offer which triggers when you pay for anything, on any website (in theory £ .....

A couple of weeks ago, American Express launched a new cashback deal with PayPal which is well worth a look. .....

30 Jul 202230 July 2022 by Rob Burgess • 131 comments

Back in September 2018, we wrote that Hilton had announced plans to open a Hilton Garden Inn overlooking the Silverstone motor racing circuit in Northamptonshire. Hilton has a slightly odd niche .....

Back in September 2018, we wrote that Hilton had announced plans to open a Hilton Garden Inn overlooking .....

30 Jul 202230 July 2022 by Rob Burgess

The iconic Cape Grace hotel on Cape Town’s Victoria & Alfred Waterfront has joined Accor. This follows the acquisition of the hotel by investment group Kasada in March. My understanding is .....

The iconic Cape Grace hotel on Cape Town’s Victoria & Alfred Waterfront has joined Accor. This .....

30 Jul 202230 July 2022 by Rob Burgess • 39 comments

This is slightly off topic for us, except that I know many HfP readers like to redeem their miles and points for VIP Premier League hospitality. The two obvious routes for this are (click for our .....

This is slightly off topic for us, except that I know many HfP readers like to redeem their miles and points .....

30 Jul 202230 July 2022 by Rob Burgess

This is my review of the British Airways lounge at Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, often used for flights to New York City. This lounge is used by Aer Lingus as well as by British Airways .....

This is my review of the British Airways lounge at Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, often used for .....

30 Jul 202230 July 2022 by Rob Burgess • 46 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 .....

30 Jul 202230 July 2022 by Rob Burgess

British Airways has decided to suspend the sale of tickets on short haul flights from London Heathrow for travel today (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday). This may be extended beyond Saturday but a .....

British Airways has decided to suspend the sale of tickets on short haul flights from London Heathrow for .....

29 Jul 202229 July 2022 by Rob Burgess • 48 comments

The general consensus about hotel loyalty programmes is that Marriott Bonvoy is the only scheme where it is is worthwhile trading your points for airline miles. There are a couple of reasons for this. .....

The general consensus about hotel loyalty programmes is that Marriott Bonvoy is the only scheme where it is is .....

29 Jul 202229 July 2022 by Rob Burgess • 11 comments

There are no shortage of loyalty schemes offering tickets to the BMW PGA golf tournament at Virginia Water in September. Earlier in the week we looked at Emirates and its offer of VIP hospitality .....

There are no shortage of loyalty schemes offering tickets to the BMW PGA golf tournament at Virginia Water in .....

29 Jul 202229 July 2022 by Rob Burgess

Marriott Bonvoy has released a new batch of tickets for its box at The O2 arena in London. There have been some recent changes to the Bonvoy Suite and I’m not fully sure how it is working at the .....

Marriott Bonvoy has released a new batch of tickets for its box at The O2 arena in London. There have been .....

29 Jul 202229 July 2022 by Rob Burgess • 43 comments

This is our third ‘Avios availability notice’ today, following some shuffling of the British Airways timetables. As we covered in another article, flights to Turks & Caicos will now .....

This is our third ‘Avios availability notice’ today, following some shuffling of the British .....

28 Jul 202228 July 2022 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments