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

News in brief: Book £90 Thistle hotel rooms in London, including breakfast Thistle Hotels is running a four day promotion, starting today, to celebrate the 90th birthday of the Queen. There are 9,000 .....

News in brief: Book £90 Thistle hotel rooms in London, including breakfast Thistle Hotels is running a four .....

10 Jun 201610 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 66 comments

TODAY, 10th June, is the last day to take advantage of the current 100% bonus when you buy Hilton HHonors points – see this page and click through. Even with a 100% bonus, it is .....

TODAY, 10th June, is the last day to take advantage of the current 100% bonus when you buy Hilton HHonors .....

10 Jun 201610 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 33 comments

I received a private message via Flyertalk yesterday from a British Airways employee who said, to paraphrase, that he was fed up with the anti-BA bias that he felt runs through the site. In my .....

I received a private message via Flyertalk yesterday from a British Airways employee who said, to paraphrase, .....

9 Jun 20169 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 176 comments

News in brief: British Airways removes hot food from Band 4 flights In order not to appear to be unduly criticising British Airways again (see my main article today), I will assume that this is a .....

News in brief: British Airways removes hot food from Band 4 flights In order not to appear to be unduly .....

9 Jun 20169 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 90 comments

We have seen some interesting promotions over the last couple of years to drum up business for the British Airways Leeds Bradford to Heathrow route. We have had ‘kids fly free’ (up to 3 .....

We have seen some interesting promotions over the last couple of years to drum up business for the British .....

9 Jun 20169 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 8 comments

A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to try out the new Eurostar e320 trains on a trip to Paris.  That review will follow in a couple of days. First, however, I got to review the Eurostar .....

A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to try out the new Eurostar e320 trains on a trip to Paris.  That .....

8 Jun 20168 June 2016 by Rob Burgess • 27 comments