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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 .....
31 Mar 202531 March 2025
News in brief: Get 8,000 Virgin Points with a Tesco Mobile deal We don’t cover many Tesco Clubcard deals these days, because the company decided a few years ago to focus on lower prices rather .....
News in brief: Get 8,000 Virgin Points with a Tesco Mobile deal We don’t cover many Tesco Clubcard deals .....
15 Nov 202315 November 2023 • 25 comments
We ran an article yesterday on the British Airways policy for unaccompanied children. I thought it was worth taking a look at how Virgin Atlantic tackles the same problem. Following a rule change in .....
We ran an article yesterday on the British Airways policy for unaccompanied children. I thought it was worth .....
9 Mar 20259 March 2025 • 14 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 .....
16 Mar 202516 March 2025
Today (and only today, Thursday) we are running an exclusive Head for Points competition in association with ALL – Accor’s hotel loyalty programme, following its launch of the new ALL Terrace .....
Today (and only today, Thursday) we are running an exclusive Head for Points competition in association with .....
20 Feb 202520 February 2025 • 32 comments
Hyatt opened Grand Hyatt La Manga Club Golf & Spa yesterday, based in the well known La Manga Club Resort in Murcia in south east Spain. Readers with long memories may remember that this hotel was .....
Hyatt opened Grand Hyatt La Manga Club Golf & Spa yesterday, based in the well known La Manga Club Resort .....
16 May 202316 May 2023 • 11 comments
IHG One Rewards emailed holders of their (closed to new applicants) UK credit cards yesterday giving them ‘early access’ to a 20% discount deal on IHG redemptions. This implies that, in .....
IHG One Rewards emailed holders of their (closed to new applicants) UK credit cards yesterday giving them .....
10 Jan 202310 January 2023
This is our review of Great Western Railway’s Night Riviera Sleeper train service from London Paddington to Devon and Cornwall. In my case, it was to Plymouth. Regular readers may remember my .....
This is our review of Great Western Railway’s Night Riviera Sleeper train service from London Paddington .....
12 Apr 202512 April 2025 • 52 comments
The Qsuite Next Gen business class seat was unveiled at the Farnborough International Airshow today. Qatar Airways launched its Qsuite business class seat at the ITB Berlin travel show in February .....
The Qsuite Next Gen business class seat was unveiled at the Farnborough International Airshow today. Qatar .....
22 Jul 202422 July 2024 • 107 comments
How do you change an Avios booking? Today I want to run through how the process works and what it will cost to change your flight. The simple answer is that all Avios flights can be changed or .....
How do you change an Avios booking? Today I want to run through how the process works and what it will .....
1 Feb 20241 February 2024
It’s just over a week since Virgin Flying Club moved to dynamic pricing on Virgin Points redemptions. Now that the transition has had time to bed in, we thought we’d take a closer look at .....
It’s just over a week since Virgin Flying Club moved to dynamic pricing on Virgin Points redemptions. .....
12 Nov 202412 November 2024 • 147 comments
You have just nine days left to book a flight on British Airways if you want to earn Avios based on your ticket class and flight distance rather than what you spend. We knew this was coming – .....
You have just nine days left to book a flight on British Airways if you want to earn Avios based on your .....
9 Oct 20239 October 2023 • 67 comments
Sean Doyle’s turnaround of the airline appears to be bearing fruit, at least in terms of punctuality. British Airways has swept into fourth position for punctuality amongst ‘global’ .....
Sean Doyle’s turnaround of the airline appears to be bearing fruit, at least in terms of punctuality. .....
12 Mar 202512 March 2025 • 71 comments
The new British Airways system for earning status, outlined in detail here, seemed to signal the end of the tier point run. With BA flights earning 1 tier point per £1 of net spending, a Silver card .....
The new British Airways system for earning status, outlined in detail here, seemed to signal the end of the .....
20 Jan 202520 January 2025 • 81 comments
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