Virgin Flying Club has a partnership with hotel booking site Kaligo.com / Ascenda to offer an alternative way of redeeming Virgin Points.  You can use them to pay for rooms at hundreds of thousands .....

Virgin Flying Club has a partnership with hotel booking site Kaligo.com / Ascenda to offer an alternative way .....

20 Mar 202220 March 2022 by Rob Burgess • 31 comments

The travel points highlight of Black Friday 2021 was, oddly enough, not on a travel website. The best deal came from eBay. For one hour, it offered 50 Nectar points (31 Avios) for every £1 you spent .....

The travel points highlight of Black Friday 2021 was, oddly enough, not on a travel website. The best deal .....

20 Mar 202220 March 2022 by Rob Burgess

Two new opportunities have opened up to use your hotel points for London concert tickets: See the Rolling Stones with Accor Live Limitless points Accor has added VIP tickets to see the Rolling Stones .....

Two new opportunities have opened up to use your hotel points for London concert tickets: See the Rolling .....

20 Mar 202220 March 2022 by Rob Burgess • 26 comments

Last year, American Express launched the biggest sign-up bonus ever seen in the UK for a payment card. It is currently back for a limited period. When this offer came out last year, it didn’t just .....

Last year, American Express launched the biggest sign-up bonus ever seen in the UK for a payment card. It is .....

20 Mar 202220 March 2022 by Rob Burgess • 9 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 .....

20 Mar 202220 March 2022 by Rob Burgess • 2 comments

ITA Airways, the ‘replacement’ carrier for Alitalia, has brought back the elite status match that it first ran last October. This allows you, for free, to get elite status across the .....

ITA Airways, the ‘replacement’ carrier for Alitalia, has brought back the elite status match that .....

19 Mar 202219 March 2022 by Rob Burgess • 85 comments

IHG has launched a new hotel cashback deal with American Express. If you targetted, you will see this deal under the ‘Offers’ tab for one or more of your Amex cards on the statement page. .....

IHG has launched a new hotel cashback deal with American Express. If you targetted, you will see this deal .....

19 Mar 202219 March 2022 by Rob Burgess • 45 comments

One of the quirks of the British Airways network is that it has a franchise business in South Africa, called Comair. As we covered last weekend, Comair had its operating licence suspended by .....

One of the quirks of the British Airways network is that it has a franchise business in South Africa, .....

19 Mar 202219 March 2022 by Rob Burgess

Hilton has brought back its offer of a 100% bonus when you buy points. It isn’t clear if everyone is getting a 100% bonus or if it is staggered, with some getting 80% or 90%. The Hilton ‘buy .....

Hilton has brought back its offer of a 100% bonus when you buy points. It isn’t clear if everyone is .....

19 Mar 202219 March 2022 by Rob Burgess

The saga of IAG, the parent company of British Airways and Iberia, and its pursuit of Spanish airline Air Europa refuses to die. To summarise events so far: In November 2019, IAG announced a €1 .....

The saga of IAG, the parent company of British Airways and Iberia, and its pursuit of Spanish airline Air .....

19 Mar 202219 March 2022 by Rob Burgess • 28 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 .....

19 Mar 202219 March 2022 by Rhys Jones

British Airways has launched its latest Luxury Sale. We will admit that it isn’t the most exciting sale ever. High oil prices have pushed sale fares to some of the highest levels we’ve .....

British Airways has launched its latest Luxury Sale. We will admit that it isn’t the most exciting sale .....

18 Mar 202218 March 2022 by Rhys Jones • 111 comments

The British Airways face mask saga continues, and if anything it gets weirder. On Monday, British Airways announced that face masks would not be required from Wednesday except where required by law. .....

The British Airways face mask saga continues, and if anything it gets weirder. On Monday, British Airways .....

18 Mar 202218 March 2022 by Rob Burgess • 62 comments

You may not have even realised it was gone, but the Gatwick Express train service is returning from 3rd April. There will not be a return to the pre-pandemic service, however. Whilst construction work .....

You may not have even realised it was gone, but the Gatwick Express train service is returning from 3rd April. .....

18 Mar 202218 March 2022 by Rob Burgess