As of 10am this morning, the Travelex Supercard website is back up, a new app appeared in the app stores and it began to accept new applications. If you want to get one, click here to download the .....

As of 10am this morning, the Travelex Supercard website is back up, a new app appeared in the app stores and .....

14 Jun 201614 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 123 comments

News in brief: 10% Diamond Club discount for British Airways flights ends If you have one of the old bmi Diamond Club credit cards, you probably remember receiving a letter in March 2015 telling you .....

News in brief: 10% Diamond Club discount for British Airways flights ends If you have one of the old bmi .....

14 Jun 201614 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 74 comments

An InterContinental presentation mistakenly placed online shows that the company is planning changes to its Ambassador loyalty scheme for 2016. Before I come to those, I want to summarise how .....

An InterContinental presentation mistakenly placed online shows that the company is planning changes to its .....

14 Jun 201614 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 56 comments

News in brief: Moneycorp pulls currency pre-order facility I wrote last week about how you could protect the cost of your holiday this year by pre-ordering currency from Moneycorp. Moneycorp would let .....

News in brief: Moneycorp pulls currency pre-order facility I wrote last week about how you could protect the .....

14 Jun 201614 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 22 comments

Thanks to Hotels.com, I am running a great competition this week to promote the Hotels.com Summer Sale and the Hotels.com Rewards programme. Between now and Friday, you can win a £500 Hotels.com .....

Thanks to Hotels.com, I am running a great competition this week to promote the Hotels.com Summer Sale and .....

13 Jun 201613 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 41 comments

News in brief: Delta to launch Glasgow to New York flights for summer 2017 Delta, the 49% shareholder of Virgin Atlantic, has announced a new Glasgow to New York service for Summer 2017.  This will .....

News in brief: Delta to launch Glasgow to New York flights for summer 2017 Delta, the 49% shareholder of .....

13 Jun 201613 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 51 comments

There are a number of hotel groups who partner with Virgin Atlantic Flying Club but who do not work with Avios.  I covered them in this article. One of those is Red Carnation Hotels. Red Carnation is .....

There are a number of hotel groups who partner with Virgin Atlantic Flying Club but who do not work with .....

13 Jun 201613 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 7 comments

Here are a couple of interesting flight deals if you are spending your weekend wondering what to do over the Summer. More Qatar Airways bargains from Pisa Qatar Airways is pushing its Pisa route again .....

Here are a couple of interesting flight deals if you are spending your weekend wondering what to do over the .....

12 Jun 201612 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 67 comments

If you have an Iberia Plus Avios account – which hopefully you do, as they come in handy for various promotions now and then – you may have received an interesting email from Iberia this .....

If you have an Iberia Plus Avios account – which hopefully you do, as they come in handy for various .....

12 Jun 201612 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 20 comments

Here is the latest edition of our regular feature which summarises offers that are ending soon. It pulls together the different deals mentioned on our Top Avios Points Earning Offers, Top Hotel Bonus .....

Here is the latest edition of our regular feature which summarises offers that are ending soon. It pulls .....

12 Jun 201612 June 2016 by Rob Burgess

Back in mid May, a HfP reader sent me some gossip which I found a little hard to believe and which I couldn’t verify. oneworld alliance airlines would no longer be required to check baggage .....

Back in mid May, a HfP reader sent me some gossip which I found a little hard to believe and which I .....

11 Jun 201611 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 192 comments

News in brief: Get 2,400 Avios with a £30 Singer ‘Handy Chest’ Tesco Direct has been offering 1,000 Clubcard points on a variety of Singer sewing machines for a few weeks. The cheapest .....

News in brief: Get 2,400 Avios with a £30 Singer ‘Handy Chest’ Tesco Direct has been offering .....

11 Jun 201611 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 9 comments

I wrote a few weeks ago about how the new InterContinental at the O2 had been reduced in price from 50,000 IHG Rewards Club points per night to 45,000. I thought this was rebalancing – the hotel .....

I wrote a few weeks ago about how the new InterContinental at the O2 had been reduced in price from 50,000 IHG .....

11 Jun 201611 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 37 comments

Club Carlson, the Radisson Blu / Park Inn / Park Plaza programme, has launched a status match programme. If you have elite status with another hotel group, it is worth taking a look at this.  It will .....

Club Carlson, the Radisson Blu / Park Inn / Park Plaza programme, has launched a status match programme. If .....

10 Jun 201610 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 35 comments