Airlines in America, once the laughing stock of the world, are racing ahead. Go back a couple decades and global airlines were broadly grouped into three tiers. At the top of the pile were the Asian .....

Airlines in America, once the laughing stock of the world, are racing ahead. Go back a couple decades and .....

28 Jul 202528 July 2025 by Rhys Jones • 86 comments

This is our review of the newly opened Luxembourg Marriott Hotel Alfa. The tiny grand duchy of Luxembourg is located in the heart of Europe. The country is known as one of the three administrative .....

This is our review of the newly opened Luxembourg Marriott Hotel Alfa. The tiny grand duchy of Luxembourg is .....

28 Jul 202528 July 2025 by Conny Urban • 18 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 .....

28 Jul 202528 July 2025 by Rob Burgess

The general consensus about hotel loyalty programmes is that Marriott Bonvoy is the only scheme where it is worthwhile trading your points for airline miles. There are a couple of reasons for this. .....

The general consensus about hotel loyalty programmes is that Marriott Bonvoy is the only scheme where it is .....

27 Jul 202527 July 2025 by Rob Burgess • 13 comments

This is our review of the Qantas International Transit Lounge at Perth International Airport. It marks the end of the first batch of reports from my recent Australia trip – basically the London .....

This is our review of the Qantas International Transit Lounge at Perth International Airport. It marks the end .....

27 Jul 202527 July 2025 by Rhys Jones • 36 comments

Head for Points is moving offices in two weeks, as WeWork closes at our current home of 1 Poultry. We won’t be heading far – just down the road to Eastcheap. I mention this because we were .....

Head for Points is moving offices in two weeks, as WeWork closes at our current home of 1 Poultry. We .....

27 Jul 202527 July 2025 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments

The aim of this feature is to summarise flight, hotel and points offers that are ending soon.  Everything listed below has been covered on HfP in recent weeks, but years of experience of running .....

The aim of this feature is to summarise flight, hotel and points offers that are ending soon.  Everything .....

27 Jul 202527 July 2025 by HfP team • 3 comments

American Express has launched a special offer for anyone who holds the free British Airways American Express Credit Card and who has never added a free supplementary cardholder. Until 25th August, the .....

American Express has launched a special offer for anyone who holds the free British Airways American Express .....

26 Jul 202526 July 2025 by Rob Burgess • 41 comments

BA Cityflyer, the subsidiary which operates Embraer 190 services from London City Airport, is trialling a new route from London Stansted. (As a reminder, BA needs to find a use for its Embraer 190 .....

BA Cityflyer, the subsidiary which operates Embraer 190 services from London City Airport, is trialling a new .....

26 Jul 202526 July 2025 by Rob Burgess • 12 comments

This is our review of The University Arms hotel in Cambridge. I last reviewed this hotel in 2020, during the pandemic, and I wasn’t totally won over. Whilst I never wrote about it, I went back .....

This is our review of The University Arms hotel in Cambridge. I last reviewed this hotel in 2020, during the .....

26 Jul 202526 July 2025 by Rob Burgess • 33 comments

Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit card news, hints and tips. If you are not a subscriber, you can sign up to this free .....

Welcome to the Head for Points weekly newsletter, full of the latest Avios, travel loyalty and travel credit .....

26 Jul 202526 July 2025 by Rob Burgess

Qatar Airways has launched a new version of its award flight finder tool. This sits on its website (click here, log in required) and is meant to make the job of finding Avios reward seats on Qatar .....

Qatar Airways has launched a new version of its award flight finder tool. This sits on its website (click .....

25 Jul 202525 July 2025 by Rob Burgess • 32 comments

Not many people know that a) Accor is the largest hotel group in Europe and b) it has virtually no presence in the United States outside the luxury / upscale sector, with only 41 hotels in total. Do .....

Not many people know that a) Accor is the largest hotel group in Europe and b) it has virtually no presence in .....

25 Jul 202525 July 2025 by Rob Burgess

Marriott’s acquisition of citizenM hotels for $355 million has reached legal completion. It’s a complex structure. Marriott is only buying the brand itself. The selling shareholders will .....

Marriott’s acquisition of citizenM hotels for $355 million has reached legal completion. It’s a .....

25 Jul 202525 July 2025 by Rob Burgess • 4 comments