American Airlines is offering a 50% bonus when you buy miles. The deal is valid until 31st December. I am not an expert on buying AA miles, but View from the Wing rates this as about as good a deal as .....

American Airlines is offering a 50% bonus when you buy miles. The deal is valid until 31st December. I am not .....

23 Nov 201223 November 2012 by Rob Burgess • 6 comments

Yes, that’s right.  Sainsbury’s! For those with very long memories, Sainsbury’s used to award BA Miles and Air Miles before the contract switched to Tesco in 2002.  You may .....

Yes, that’s right.  Sainsbury’s! For those with very long memories, Sainsbury’s used to .....

22 Nov 201222 November 2012 by Rob Burgess • 13 comments

If you’ve got 30 seconds to spare, you could win 9,000 Avios and £1,000 of shopping from the Avios estore. How?  By entering this competition (deleted as ended) on the thisismoney.co.uk .....

If you’ve got 30 seconds to spare, you could win 9,000 Avios and £1,000 of shopping from the Avios .....

22 Nov 201222 November 2012 by Rob Burgess

I had a very successful afternoon at Tesco yesterday. Purchase 1 Three giftcards, total value £50. I bought these using a ‘£5 off £50 spend’ voucher that Tesco had posted to me. The .....

I had a very successful afternoon at Tesco yesterday. Purchase 1 Three giftcards, total value £50. I bought .....

22 Nov 201222 November 2012 by Rob Burgess • 11 comments

Two months ago I wrote a post on “What are the best credit card bonuses for LONG-TERM spending?“. This was an attempt to judge the best card to use as your ‘day to day’ card. .....

Two months ago I wrote a post on “What are the best credit card bonuses for LONG-TERM spending?“. .....

21 Nov 201221 November 2012 by Rob Burgess • 32 comments

Last week I published this article.  It describes a code which you can use on the Tesco Wine website to receive 500 bonus Clubcard points (so 1,200 Avios airmiles or 1,250 Virgin miles) when you .....

Last week I published this article.  It describes a code which you can use on the Tesco Wine website to .....

21 Nov 201221 November 2012 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments

Virgin Atlantic announced yesterday that they have been awarded all 12 of the daily slot pairs at Heathrow that BA had to give up as part of the acquisition of bmi. Here is the email that Virgin .....

Virgin Atlantic announced yesterday that they have been awarded all 12 of the daily slot pairs at Heathrow .....

20 Nov 201220 November 2012 by Rob Burgess • 1 comment

If you are still looking to top up Christmas stockings, here is another Tesco Clubcard promo.  200 Clubcard points (worth 480 Avios or 500 Virgin miles) will be yours when you purchase a WOW toy. If .....

If you are still looking to top up Christmas stockings, here is another Tesco Clubcard promo.  200 Clubcard .....

20 Nov 201220 November 2012 by Rob Burgess • 2 comments

A lot of Head for Points readers now have the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card, following the special sign-up offer of 30,000 Membership Rewards points which ran two weeks ago. (If you .....

A lot of Head for Points readers now have the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card, following the .....

19 Nov 201219 November 2012 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments

Business Traveller magazine has launched its annual online charity auction.  This year the cause is Children with Cancer UK. They have put together a huge list of items, from flights to airline cuddy .....

Business Traveller magazine has launched its annual online charity auction.  This year the cause is Children .....

19 Nov 201219 November 2012 by Rob Burgess • 1 comment

A couple of days ago I wrote about American Express’s new promotion of 5,000 Membership Reward points for making a £100 foreign exchange transfer. At the time, I posted: I am trying a little .....

A couple of days ago I wrote about American Express’s new promotion of 5,000 Membership Reward points .....

18 Nov 201218 November 2012 by Rob Burgess • 8 comments

I have been featuring a lot of bonus Clubcard offers on Head for Points recently.  It was never part of the plan, as Tesco has never historically run that many at once, but it seems that their .....

I have been featuring a lot of bonus Clubcard offers on Head for Points recently.  It was never part of .....

18 Nov 201218 November 2012 by Rob Burgess • 9 comments

There has been a sea of Accor articles in the last few days. We started off with a free match to Platinum status in their Le Club Accorhotels programme. We then had the launch of the Accor Winter .....

There has been a sea of Accor articles in the last few days. We started off with a free match to Platinum .....

18 Nov 201218 November 2012 by Rob Burgess • 6 comments

Malaysia Airlines has confirmed this week that it will be joining BA in the oneworld alliance on 1st February next year. From this date, you will be able to earn and spend Avios on Malaysia Airlines .....

Malaysia Airlines has confirmed this week that it will be joining BA in the oneworld alliance on 1st February .....

17 Nov 201217 November 2012 by Rob Burgess