Wine retailer Laithwaites, the UK’s largest mail-order wine retailer (it runs The Sunday Times Wine Club as well as pretty much every other branded mail-order operation), has been a BAEC partner .....

Wine retailer Laithwaites, the UK’s largest mail-order wine retailer (it runs The Sunday Times Wine Club .....

25 Jan 201825 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments

The “Avios Redemption University” series is a good starting point for beginners, although I hope everyone will learn something from them. Click here to see the other articles. What flights can you .....

The “Avios Redemption University” series is a good starting point for beginners, although I hope everyone .....

24 Jan 201824 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 53 comments

For a while, ba.com has been promoting British Airways American Express cards to random visitors during the booking process. Whilst this is a perfectly logical time to try to catch a new customer, the .....

For a while, ba.com has been promoting British Airways American Express cards to random visitors during the .....

24 Jan 201824 January 2018 by Rob Burgess

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