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Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well .....
12 Aug 202412 August 2024
Virgin Atlantic CEO Shai Weiss unveiled a raft of customer experience upgrades at an event in London tonight which we attended. It is a cornucopia of announcements, including: It marks the biggest .....
Virgin Atlantic CEO Shai Weiss unveiled a raft of customer experience upgrades at an event in London tonight .....
PINNED • 8 Jul 20258 July 2025 • 121 comments
Not many Avios collectors know that you can now double-up when you stay at any Accor hotel. As well as earning Accor Live Limitless points as usual from your Novotel, Mercure, Raffles, Fairmont, .....
Not many Avios collectors know that you can now double-up when you stay at any Accor hotel. As well as earning .....
15 May 202315 May 2023 • 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 .....
23 Jul 202323 July 2023
This article looks at whether it is worth using your Avios to book a hotel room. I generally try to stay away from the eternal question of ‘What is an Avios worth?’. At the end of the day, .....
This article looks at whether it is worth using your Avios to book a hotel room. I generally try to stay away .....
14 Feb 202514 February 2025 • 14 comments
IHG One Rewards has announced a new global promotion for the spring. The good news is that this deal is running back to back with the previous offer, unlike Spring 2024 when we saw a couple of fallow .....
IHG One Rewards has announced a new global promotion for the spring. The good news is that this deal is .....
18 Dec 202418 December 2024 • 20 comments
As I’m sure you’ve seen by now, and as has been widely teased in the press for weeks, Rachel Reeves (finally?) threw her weight behind Heathrow’s third runway yesterday. This is more .....
As I’m sure you’ve seen by now, and as has been widely teased in the press for weeks, Rachel .....
30 Jan 202530 January 2025 • 213 comments
The biggest difference between the new Club Iberia Plus and the new British Airways Club is the way that you can earn tier points from partners. BA’s failure here is total. Club Iberia Plus has .....
The biggest difference between the new Club Iberia Plus and the new British Airways Club is the way that you .....
3 Apr 20253 April 2025 • 77 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 .....
8 Oct 20238 October 2023 • 1 comment
This is our review of the Grand Hyatt Barcelona hotel. It is one of two Barcelona reviews we’ll be running in July because, before I accepted an invitation from Hyatt, I had already booked a .....
This is our review of the Grand Hyatt Barcelona hotel. It is one of two Barcelona reviews we’ll be .....
12 Jul 202412 July 2024 • 28 comments
When Finnair adopted Avios on Monday, it brought two new airlines into the Avios-earning fold. One is Scandinavian regional carrier Braathens, and the other is Chinese carrier Juneyao Airlines. When .....
When Finnair adopted Avios on Monday, it brought two new airlines into the Avios-earning fold. One is .....
18 Mar 202418 March 2024 • 32 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 .....
14 Apr 202414 April 2024 • 1 comment
EDIT: Amex has now suspended these changes until at least 2024. See our top story. American Express has traditionally offered one feature which other UK credit card companies did not. If you took out .....
EDIT: Amex has now suspended these changes until at least 2024. See our top story. American Express has .....
25 Sep 202325 September 2023 • 198 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 .....
10 Dec 202310 December 2023
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