Yesterday, Scandinavian airline SAS left Star Alliance and joined the SkyTeam alliance, after Air France KLM bought a stake in the carrier. SAS, founded in 1946, has its principal hub in Copenhagen .....

Yesterday, Scandinavian airline SAS left Star Alliance and joined the SkyTeam alliance, after Air France KLM .....

2 Sep 20242 September 2024 by Rob Burgess • 85 comments

What is the best Avios business credit card? The British Airways American Express Accelerating Business credit card is now available again to new applicants. You can apply here. This is an attractive .....

What is the best Avios business credit card? The British Airways American Express Accelerating Business credit .....

2 Sep 20242 September 2024 by Rob Burgess • 11 comments

Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as our latest reviews and features. If you are not a subscriber, you can sign up here to .....

Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well .....

2 Sep 20242 September 2024 by Rob Burgess

If you are looking for an Amex business card, American Express offers two core products in the UK.  This review looks at the American Express Business Gold charge card.  Our review of the .....

If you are looking for an Amex business card, American Express offers two core products in the UK.  This .....

1 Sep 20241 September 2024 by Rob Burgess

If you are looking for an Amex business card, American Express offers two core products in the UK.  This review looks at the The American Express Business Platinum Card. Our review of the .....

If you are looking for an Amex business card, American Express offers two core products in the .....

1 Sep 20241 September 2024 by Rob Burgess • 2 comments

This is our review of the British Airways American Express Accelerating Business credit card (BA Amex Business).  It is the only British Airways-branded credit card for SME’s. What Avios .....

This is our review of the British Airways American Express Accelerating Business credit card (BA Amex .....

1 Sep 20241 September 2024 by Rob Burgess

Capital on Tap – a small UK payments card company which I admit you may never have heard of – runs the only small business Visa credit cards which can earn you Avios points. You earn 1 .....

Capital on Tap – a small UK payments card company which I admit you may never have heard of – runs .....

1 Sep 20241 September 2024 by Rob Burgess

This is our review of the Capital on Tap Pro Visa credit card. Capital on Tap – a small UK payments card company which I admit you may never have heard of – runs the only small business .....

This is our review of the Capital on Tap Pro Visa credit card. Capital on Tap – a small UK payments card .....

1 Sep 20241 September 2024 by Rob Burgess

Over the last week we have published updated versions of our ‘What is a hotel point worth?’ series. You can see the individual articles here: Now that we have a valuation per point for .....

Over the last week we have published updated versions of our ‘What is a hotel point worth?’ .....

1 Sep 20241 September 2024 by Rob Burgess • 55 comments

One of the Starwood features that was adopted by Marriott after it bought the company was the ability to redeem your hotel points for a flight ticket. Two facts make this offer sound quite attractive. .....

One of the Starwood features that was adopted by Marriott after it bought the company was the ability to .....

1 Sep 20241 September 2024 by Rob Burgess • 11 comments

It turns out that it has been five years since we wrote about the American Express lounge at The O2 arena in London. I got to visit it for the first time recently (I’m normally hiding away in .....

It turns out that it has been five years since we wrote about the American Express lounge at The O2 arena in .....

1 Sep 20241 September 2024 by Rob Burgess • 33 comments

Here is a full list of the articles we published in August 2024.  Click through to read them in full: How I turned my expiring Etihad Guest miles into cash with the Etihad Guest Reward Card Hotel .....

Here is a full list of the articles we published in August 2024.  Click through to read them in full: How .....

31 Aug 202431 August 2024 by HfP team

When Etihad Guest overhauled its programme this year (for the worst), it brought in a nasty rule regarding points expiry. You now need to take a cash flight on Etihad or one of its airline partners .....

When Etihad Guest overhauled its programme this year (for the worst), it brought in a nasty rule regarding .....

31 Aug 202431 August 2024 by Rob Burgess • 30 comments

Hotel news in brief: The Randolph Oxford is now bookable via Hilton Back in March, Hilton made a rare acquisition – the first major one since it bought Embassy Suites, DoubleTree and Hampton in 1999 .....

Hotel news in brief: The Randolph Oxford is now bookable via Hilton Back in March, Hilton made a rare .....

31 Aug 202431 August 2024 by Rob Burgess • 28 comments