Stobart Group, owners of Southend Airport, announced yesterday that they are reopening Carlisle Lake District Airport to commercial flights for the first time since 1993. Flights will begin on 3rd .....

Stobart Group, owners of Southend Airport, announced yesterday that they are reopening Carlisle Lake District .....

24 Jan 201824 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 158 comments

American Airlines now has a very good business class product on its London to New York route.  It is a herringbone layout and looks like this: …. on the new Boeing 777-300ER (77W in AA .....

American Airlines now has a very good business class product on its London to New York route.  It is a .....

24 Jan 201824 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 64 comments

Over 65,000 people choose to read Head for Points by email. We offer two different emails: Click the button below to sign up to either: Why should you sign up? How do the daily emails work? If you .....

Over 65,000 people choose to read Head for Points by email. We offer two different emails: Click the button .....

23 Jan 201823 January 2018 by HfP team

Many of the credit card posts on Head for Points are focused on sign-up bonuses.  Get a card, spend the minimum required to trigger the bonus, cancel the card, move on.  After a period, you .....

Many of the credit card posts on Head for Points are focused on sign-up bonuses.  Get a card, spend the .....

23 Jan 201823 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 337 comments

Shangri-La Golden Circle is offering 100 free points to all members who try the new Shangri-La mobile app. You need to download the app and log in at any point before 30th April.  No booking is .....

Shangri-La Golden Circle is offering 100 free points to all members who try the new Shangri-La mobile app. You .....

23 Jan 201823 January 2018 by Rob Burgess

Singapore Airlines will be rostering a brand new A380 on the Heathrow route from 16th February, operating the SQ305 / SQ322 service. This will be on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.  From April 7 .....

Singapore Airlines will be rostering a brand new A380 on the Heathrow route from 16th February, operating the .....

23 Jan 201823 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 40 comments

Marriott Rewards is one of the better hotel programmes if you have a family, or simply don’t like small hotel rooms. As well as offering standard rooms for the standard redemption price, a lot .....

Marriott Rewards is one of the better hotel programmes if you have a family, or simply don’t like small .....

23 Jan 201823 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 23 comments

I wanted to give our luxury hotel booking service another mention today, in case you are starting to make your holiday plans for 2018.  Since I launched this service a year ago with Emyr Thomas .....

I wanted to give our luxury hotel booking service another mention today, in case you are starting to make your .....

23 Jan 201823 January 2018 by Rob Burgess

As regular Head for Points readers will know, HMRC removed the ability to pay self-assessment, PAYE or VAT with a personal credit card last weekend. This was a big blow for miles and points .....

As regular Head for Points readers will know, HMRC removed the ability to pay self-assessment, PAYE or VAT .....

22 Jan 201822 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 188 comments

Bloomberg reported on Friday that British Airways is in negotiations with Airbus to order an additional tranche of A380 aircraft. There could be some truth in this.  IAG has said that it would be .....

Bloomberg reported on Friday that British Airways is in negotiations with Airbus to order an additional .....

22 Jan 201822 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 54 comments

On Saturday I wrote about the repeat of the Groupon / Iberia promotion which let you buy Avios for 1.1p. When this offer first ran in 2015 there were terrible IT issues which meant that many people .....

On Saturday I wrote about the repeat of the Groupon / Iberia promotion which let you buy Avios for 1.1p. When .....

22 Jan 201822 January 2018 by Rob Burgess

News in brief: It’s 20 years since Heathrow Junction railway station opened (and closed) For those of a certain age, this article published last week is worth a look. In January 1998, Heathrow .....

News in brief: It’s 20 years since Heathrow Junction railway station opened (and closed) For those of a .....

22 Jan 201822 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 73 comments

Regular readers might recall my article last year about Flight Experience.  This is an Australian-based flight simulator company with a new branch in Putney. In Putney I got to try their Boeing 737 .....

Regular readers might recall my article last year about Flight Experience.  This is an Australian-based .....

21 Jan 201821 January 2018 by Anika Burnett • 25 comments

One of the least discussed benefits of the American Express Platinum card is Boingo wi-fi.  It gives you access to 1 million wi-fi hot spots globally. My original article on Boingo from 2014 is .....

One of the least discussed benefits of the American Express Platinum card is Boingo wi-fi.  It gives you .....

21 Jan 201821 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 84 comments