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This article looks at the different ways you can get elite status with hotel chains via UK credit cards. If you are just getting started with miles and points, you have probably realised by now that .....
This article looks at the different ways you can get elite status with hotel chains via UK credit cards. If .....
14 Oct 202414 October 2024 • 23 comments
Hilton Honors has launched two new Mastercard payment cards. And, very interestingly, they are DEBIT cards and not credit cards. You can see full details of the new Hilton Honors debit cards, and .....
Hilton Honors has launched two new Mastercard payment cards. And, very interestingly, they are DEBIT cards and .....
26 Sep 202426 September 2024 • 150 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 .....
3 May 20253 May 2025 • 1 comment
Lloyds Bank, which has had little to offer to the travel rewards market since it closed its Avios Mastercards some years ago, is dipping a toe back into the water. It has launched a new World Elite .....
Lloyds Bank, which has had little to offer to the travel rewards market since it closed its Avios Mastercards .....
20 Nov 202320 November 2023 • 83 comments
Hilton Honors has launched an exceptionally generous deal for anyone who is seeking to earn or retain Hilton Honors status. You have the chance to earn double elite night credits on every stay – .....
Hilton Honors has launched an exceptionally generous deal for anyone who is seeking to earn or retain Hilton .....
5 Jul 20245 July 2024 • 76 comments
Radisson Blu has just opened a hotel in Sheffield. It is a brand new property (website here), developed behind a Victorian facade on Pinstone Street. It faces across to the Town Hall and Peace Gardens .....
Radisson Blu has just opened a hotel in Sheffield. It is a brand new property (website here), developed behind .....
13 Jul 202413 July 2024 • 18 comments
Yesterday, in our article on ‘Which 30 airlines can you redeem Avios on?‘, we said that Avios redemptions were currently suspended on Russian carrier S7. We were wrong. Whilst S7’s .....
Yesterday, in our article on ‘Which 30 airlines can you redeem Avios on?‘, we said that Avios .....
5 Jul 20225 July 2022 • 72 comments
We write a lot about how to book Avios redemptions on British Airways flights as well as BA’s oneworld partner airlines (full list here). But what if you want to ‘mix and match’ and .....
We write a lot about how to book Avios redemptions on British Airways flights as well as BA’s oneworld .....
8 Mar 20248 March 2024 • 49 comments
Wizz Air has followed US airline Frontier to become the first European airline to launch an unlimited flight subscription package. Wizz Air is selling 10,000 of these annual ‘All You Can .....
Wizz Air has followed US airline Frontier to become the first European airline to launch an unlimited flight .....
15 Aug 202415 August 2024 • 125 comments
One fascinating change to Avios in recent years was the opening up of Aer Lingus and Iberia for American Express 2-4-1 Companion Voucher redemptions. The Aer Lingus option is especially interesting .....
One fascinating change to Avios in recent years was the opening up of Aer Lingus and Iberia for American .....
1 Dec 20241 December 2024 • 37 comments
Lufthansa has just unveiled its impressive new Business and Senator lounges at London Heathrow Terminal 2. A few pictures are below and there are more in our article here. As Lufthansa lounge access .....
Lufthansa has just unveiled its impressive new Business and Senator lounges at London Heathrow Terminal 2. A .....
23 Jan 202523 January 2025 • 41 comments
American Airlines is heading back to Scotland, with the relaunch of flights between Edinburgh and Philadelphia next year. The route was last operated in 2019 and, to date, seemed to have been a .....
American Airlines is heading back to Scotland, with the relaunch of flights between Edinburgh and Philadelphia .....
6 Sep 20246 September 2024 • 48 comments
As I mentioned in our other article today, Sean Doyle, Chairman and CEO of British Airways, invited us round to his lounge for Christmas drinks on Monday night. Not the lounge of his house – the .....
As I mentioned in our other article today, Sean Doyle, Chairman and CEO of British Airways, invited us round .....
12 Dec 202312 December 2023 • 65 comments
Early last month, Finnair adopted Avios as its loyalty currency. We covered the story here. You CANNOT yet move Avios back and forth between Finnair Plus and British Airways Executive Club, but this .....
Early last month, Finnair adopted Avios as its loyalty currency. We covered the story here. You CANNOT yet .....
16 Apr 202416 April 2024 • 158 comments
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