Virgin Atlantic is terminating its Pakistan flights later this year as the airline continues to restructure its route network following the pandemic. Flights to Lahore will end on 1st May whilst .....

Virgin Atlantic is terminating its Pakistan flights later this year as the airline continues to restructure .....

14 Feb 202314 February 2023 by Rhys Jones • 24 comments

This is our review of Ethiopian Airlines Cloud 9 (business class), flying between Addis Ababa and London Heathrow. After trying out Ethiopian Airlines on a fifth freedom route between Manchester and .....

This is our review of Ethiopian Airlines Cloud 9 (business class), flying between Addis Ababa and London .....

13 Feb 202313 February 2023 by Rhys Jones • 51 comments

How many British Airways Avios points do you need to fly to a particular city? It is surprisingly tricky to find out how many Avios are required for a particular route.  You need to go to ba.com, .....

How many British Airways Avios points do you need to fly to a particular city? It is surprisingly tricky to .....

13 Feb 202313 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 90 comments

Household Accounts are a very useful feature of British Airways Executive Club. You may not know that very few frequent flyer schemes globally offer them, and most of those that do are heavily .....

Household Accounts are a very useful feature of British Airways Executive Club. You may not know that very few .....

13 Feb 202313 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 37 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 .....

13 Feb 202313 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments

This is our review of the new Qatar Airways Frequent Flyer lounge in Heathrow Terminal 4. When Terminal 4 reopened last June, we were surprised to see that Qatar Airways had built a second lounge. .....

This is our review of the new Qatar Airways Frequent Flyer lounge in Heathrow Terminal 4. When Terminal 4 .....

12 Feb 202312 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 50 comments

Hyatt is offering a 25% bonus when you buy 5,000+ World of Hyatt points via this link. The offer runs to 25th March. This is obviously worth a look if you need to top up your .....

Hyatt is offering a 25% bonus when you buy 5,000+ World of Hyatt points via this link. The .....

12 Feb 202312 February 2023 by Rob Burgess

IHG One Rewards has launched a new and time-limited 100% ‘buy points’ bonus, which is as generous as you ever see.  This offer runs to 21st March. The maximum number of points you can buy is .....

IHG One Rewards has launched a new and time-limited 100% ‘buy points’ bonus, which is as generous as you .....

12 Feb 202312 February 2023 by Rob Burgess

Avis, the exclusive British Airways car rental partner (alongside its sister company Budget), has launched a new promotion. If you book a car for a rental between now and Easter, you will receive 50% .....

Avis, the exclusive British Airways car rental partner (alongside its sister company Budget), has launched a .....

12 Feb 202312 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 12 comments

Today I want to look at the benefits of the FREE Barclaycard Select Cashback credit card for businesses. This includes sole traders, who are blocked from the Capital On Tap Avios-earning SME card. As .....

Today I want to look at the benefits of the FREE Barclaycard Select Cashback credit card for businesses. This .....

12 Feb 202312 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 21 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 .....

12 Feb 202312 February 2023 by HfP team

Transport for London has released images of the new Docklands Light Railway trains which will serve London City Airport, and indeed most of the rest of the DLR network, from 2024. 54 new trains .....

Transport for London has released images of the new Docklands Light Railway trains which will serve London .....

11 Feb 202311 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 86 comments

The inability to guarantee connecting hotel rooms has been a MASSIVE bug bear of mine. It is no longer such a big issue as our children get older and can look after themselves, but we struggled with .....

The inability to guarantee connecting hotel rooms has been a MASSIVE bug bear of mine. It is no longer such a .....

11 Feb 202311 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 63 comments

News in brief: The Aspire lounge at Humberside Airport reopens There are still airport lounges across the UK which remain closed after the pandemic, but most are now back in business. On Monday 13th .....

News in brief: The Aspire lounge at Humberside Airport reopens There are still airport lounges across the UK .....

11 Feb 202311 February 2023 by Rob Burgess • 33 comments