British Airways started trialling a new service last week. If your flight is taking part, you will be automatically checked in six hours before departure. Your boarding pass will be generated and sent .....

British Airways started trialling a new service last week. If your flight is taking part, you will be .....

24 Jan 201624 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 68 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 .....

24 Jan 201624 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 20 comments

News in brief: Get 500 free United MileagePlus miles MileagePlus Dining, the programme which awards you United Airlines miles for eating in certain US restaurants, isn’t of much interest to .....

News in brief: Get 500 free United MileagePlus miles MileagePlus Dining, the programme which awards you United .....

24 Jan 201624 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 24 comments

Back in November, avios.com trialled a new product – 50% off a last-minute break. How last minute?  For the following weekend. The trial apparently went well and Avios will be running this .....

Back in November, avios.com trialled a new product – 50% off a last-minute break. How last minute? .....

23 Jan 201623 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 25 comments

There was much grating of teeth among Head for Points readers before Christmas when Barclaycard made some draconian changes to its credit card policy. It decided that you could not have two .....

There was much grating of teeth among Head for Points readers before Christmas when Barclaycard made some .....

23 Jan 201623 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 48 comments

News in brief: New IHG Spire Elite benefit launched A few people have emailed me recently to ask if I know anything about the promised new benefits for IHG’s new Spire Elite top tier. The answer .....

News in brief: New IHG Spire Elite benefit launched A few people have emailed me recently to ask if I know .....

23 Jan 201623 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 28 comments

Just a quick tip off that, if you are thinking of booking a hotel this weekend, you may want to hold off until Monday. All next week, we will be running another exclusive promotion in association with .....

Just a quick tip off that, if you are thinking of booking a hotel this weekend, you may want to hold off until .....

23 Jan 201623 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments

To celebrate being named Britain’s No. 1 retailer for consumer satisfaction, Amazon is having a one day sale today. You will receive £10 off any order of £50 or more using the code BIGTHANKS. .....

To celebrate being named Britain’s No. 1 retailer for consumer satisfaction, Amazon is having a one day .....

22 Jan 201622 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 50 comments

Over at our sister site Shopper Points yesterday, I covered a promotion worth 500 bonus Clubcard points (worth 1,200 Avios) for spending £100 at Tesco Wine. I thought it was worth a mention over .....

Over at our sister site Shopper Points yesterday, I covered a promotion worth 500 bonus Clubcard points .....

22 Jan 201622 January 2016 by Anika Burnett • 2 comments

British Airways has unveiled a range of Avios hotel promotions for people who prefer to earn Avios rather than hotel points when they stay. Full details of all of these offers can be found on the .....

British Airways has unveiled a range of Avios hotel promotions for people who prefer to earn Avios rather than .....

22 Jan 201622 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments

All this week, we have been running a competition to give away 50,000 IHG Rewards Club points to one lucky Head for Points reader. 50,000 IHG Rewards Club points will get you: ten PointBreaks .....

All this week, we have been running a competition to give away 50,000 IHG Rewards Club points to one lucky .....

22 Jan 201622 January 2016 by Rob Burgess

It is looking like we are about to see a burst of long-haul aircraft orders from both British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. Speaking at a recent conference in Dublin, Willie Walsh, CEO of BA’s .....

It is looking like we are about to see a burst of long-haul aircraft orders from both British Airways and .....

21 Jan 201621 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 23 comments

Starwood Preferred Guest, the Westin / W / Sheraton / Le Meridien / St Regis etc group, has listed a new batch of redemptions for the SPG Suite at The O2 arena in Greenwich. You can find them on the .....

Starwood Preferred Guest, the Westin / W / Sheraton / Le Meridien / St Regis etc group, has listed a new batch .....

21 Jan 201621 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 46 comments

I’ve had a flurry of emails this week promoting various sales and discount codes.  None of them are as lucrative as the Accor UK hotel sale I covered yesterday but some may work for you. .....

I’ve had a flurry of emails this week promoting various sales and discount codes.  None of them are as .....

21 Jan 201621 January 2016 by Rob Burgess • 12 comments