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As we reminded you yesterday, from 1st November 2024 you will need to spend £15,000 per year to receive a 2-4-1 companion voucher on either of the British Airways American Express credit cards. On .....
As we reminded you yesterday, from 1st November 2024 you will need to spend £15,000 per year to receive a .....
12 Oct 202412 October 2024 • 63 comments
Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as the latest reviews and features from the Head for Points team. If you are not a .....
Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well .....
23 Sep 202423 September 2024
This is our review of the Sunborn Gibraltar yacht hotel. Over Easter we took the family on a circular tour by train, starting in Gibraltar (there is a station just over the border) then on to Granada .....
This is our review of the Sunborn Gibraltar yacht hotel. Over Easter we took the family on a circular tour by .....
3 May 20253 May 2025 • 50 comments
This is our review of the Al Safwa First Lounge at Hamad International Airport, Doha in Qatar. Last week, Rob and I took our first-ever joint trip – in six years of working together – to .....
This is our review of the Al Safwa First Lounge at Hamad International Airport, Doha in Qatar. Last week, Rob .....
30 Apr 202530 April 2025 • 151 comments
American Express has announced that the transfer rate from Membership Rewards points to the Emirates Skywards programme will change from tomorrow, Monday 19th August. It will drop from the current 1:1 .....
American Express has announced that the transfer rate from Membership Rewards points to the Emirates Skywards .....
18 Aug 202418 August 2024 • 9 comments
Another four short-haul routes seem to be have been axed from the Summer 2025 British Airways schedule. It doesn’t seem to be much more than the usual tweaking although it is of course very .....
Another four short-haul routes seem to be have been axed from the Summer 2025 British Airways schedule. It .....
24 Dec 202424 December 2024 • 119 comments
One of the hot topics during the transition from British Airways Executive Club to The British Airways Club was the issue of ‘soft landings’. A ‘soft landing’ occurs when you .....
One of the hot topics during the transition from British Airways Executive Club to The British Airways Club .....
6 May 20256 May 2025 • 140 comments
A new airline is now bookable using Avios points – Airlink. Based in Johannesburg, Airlink is the second largest airline in Africa in terms of annual flights. Many readers will remember that the .....
A new airline is now bookable using Avios points – Airlink. Based in Johannesburg, Airlink is the second .....
27 Feb 202527 February 2025 • 47 comments
We wouldn’t normally cover the addition of seven hotels in Japan, but it is an interesting follow-up to the piece we ran yesterday about IHG’s acquisition of 100 hotels in Germany. In that .....
We wouldn’t normally cover the addition of seven hotels in Japan, but it is an interesting follow-up to .....
18 Apr 202418 April 2024
This is my review of the British Airways Galleries lounge in Terminal 5B of London Heathrow airport. It is part of our collection of UK airport lounge reviews. You can see our full list of UK .....
This is my review of the British Airways Galleries lounge in Terminal 5B of London Heathrow airport. It is .....
1 Aug 20231 August 2023 • 128 comments
For a few years now, due to BA IT limitations, the £35 cancellation fee per person for a short haul Avios booking has been waived if you cancelled online. You were just charged a nominal £1 return / .....
For a few years now, due to BA IT limitations, the £35 cancellation fee per person for a short haul Avios .....
28 Aug 202428 August 2024 • 93 comments
If rosé wine is your tipple of choice during the warmer months, Virgin Red has launched a special redemption offer in partnership with Virgin Wines. There are two options: A 12-bottle case for 15,000 .....
If rosé wine is your tipple of choice during the warmer months, Virgin Red has launched a special redemption .....
4 Jul 20234 July 2023 • 18 comments
This is our review of The Spitfire Lounge at Southampton Airport. As part of my tour of Southampton Airport last week, I got to spend some time in The Spitfire Lounge. This is run by the airport .....
This is our review of The Spitfire Lounge at Southampton Airport. As part of my tour of Southampton Airport .....
24 Jan 202424 January 2024 • 46 comments
Whilst plans to refit the British Airways A380 fleet keep slipping further and further back, there’s no doubt that the aircraft still has a great attraction for flyers – even it means .....
Whilst plans to refit the British Airways A380 fleet keep slipping further and further back, there’s no .....
18 Feb 202518 February 2025 • 79 comments
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