British Airways is launching a new ‘Avios only’ flight at 10am today, Thursday. If you’re not familiar with these, it is a pair of flights where EVERY seat in EVERY cabin is made .....

British Airways is launching a new ‘Avios only’ flight at 10am today, Thursday. If you’re .....

11 Apr 202411 April 2024 by Rob Burgess • 67 comments

I take back everything we wrote about American Express cashback deals apparently disappearing for good. A flood of deals has emerged in the last 24 hours, for both airlines and hotels. I suspect many .....

I take back everything we wrote about American Express cashback deals apparently disappearing for good. A .....

11 Apr 202411 April 2024 by Rob Burgess • 97 comments

Hilton is rolling out its partnership with Chelsea FC with what I consider to be a great points redemption package. If your children are into football, this is something they won’t forget. You .....

Hilton is rolling out its partnership with Chelsea FC with what I consider to be a great points redemption .....

11 Apr 202411 April 2024 by Rob Burgess • 18 comments

American Express has announced some unwelcome changes to the two British Airways American Express credit cards today. The fee for the Premium Plus card will increase to £300. This is effective .....

American Express has announced some unwelcome changes to the two British Airways American Express credit cards .....

10 Apr 202410 April 2024 by Rob Burgess • 618 comments

British Airways has announced further changes to its Tel Aviv flights. The route relaunched last week with two major changes: This is what was announced this week: BA is obliged, under Israeli law, to .....

British Airways has announced further changes to its Tel Aviv flights. The route relaunched last week with two .....

10 Apr 202410 April 2024 by Rob Burgess

Whilst great Qatar Airways business class deals from the UK have dried up in recent years, mainly due to the joint venture agreement with British Airways, we still see deals out of Europe. Until 30th .....

Whilst great Qatar Airways business class deals from the UK have dried up in recent years, mainly due to the .....

10 Apr 202410 April 2024 by Rob Burgess

Finally ….. after a long delay, you can transfer American Express Membership Rewards points into Club Eurostar points again. When Eurostar and Thalys merged last autumn, and the Club Eurostar .....

Finally ….. after a long delay, you can transfer American Express Membership Rewards points into Club .....

10 Apr 202410 April 2024 by Rob Burgess • 32 comments

Well, after years of telling people that British Airways never does status matches, British Airways has launched a status match. The bad news for the 90% of HfP readers who outside North America is .....

Well, after years of telling people that British Airways never does status matches, British Airways has .....

9 Apr 20249 April 2024 by Rob Burgess • 71 comments

American Express has launched a new cashback deal with Hilton, covering selected European hotels. If you are targetted, you will see the deal on the ‘Offers’ page of one or more of your .....

American Express has launched a new cashback deal with Hilton, covering selected European hotels. If you are .....

9 Apr 20249 April 2024 by Rob Burgess • 30 comments

Hilton has launched another offer of a 100% bonus when you buy points. The Hilton ‘buy points’ page is here.  The offer runs to 14th May. For me, the maximum purchase is TRIPLED to 240,000 .....

Hilton has launched another offer of a 100% bonus when you buy points. The Hilton ‘buy points’ page is .....

9 Apr 20249 April 2024 by Rob Burgess

SAS has confirmed that it will leave Star Alliance on 31st August. This follows the sale of the airline to a consortium which includes SkyTeam stalwarts Air France KLM, who have a pre-agreed deal to .....

SAS has confirmed that it will leave Star Alliance on 31st August. This follows the sale of the airline to a .....

9 Apr 20249 April 2024 by Rob Burgess

Danish Air Transport, a small regional carrier which operates domestic routes across Denmark, Norway and Germany, will be operating a number of British Airways short haul flights this summer. It is a .....

Danish Air Transport, a small regional carrier which operates domestic routes across Denmark, Norway and .....

9 Apr 20249 April 2024 by Rob Burgess • 48 comments

Expedia Group has now announced the (rough) date when One Key, the new rewards programme, will launch in the UK. Your accounts will be switched “between July and October 2024”. Don’t .....

Expedia Group has now announced the (rough) date when One Key, the new rewards programme, will launch in the .....

8 Apr 20248 April 2024 by Rob Burgess • 125 comments

In this article I want to look at where you can fly from UK regional airports (so excluding Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and London City) with Avios. When British Airways sold its regional operations .....

In this article I want to look at where you can fly from UK regional airports (so excluding Heathrow, Gatwick, .....

8 Apr 20248 April 2024 by Rob Burgess • 53 comments