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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 .....
12 May 202512 May 2025 • Leave a comment
Virgin Atlantic is doubling down on the leisure market with an expansion of three key routes for next winter. Barbados, the Maldives and Dubai will all see additional flights from 27th October 2024. .....
Virgin Atlantic is doubling down on the leisure market with an expansion of three key routes for next winter. .....
22 Dec 202322 December 2023 • 29 comments
Whilst there has been no formal announcement, Marriott International is switching most of its UK regional Marriott hotels to its Delta brand over the next three months. Marriott International treats .....
Whilst there has been no formal announcement, Marriott International is switching most of its UK regional .....
22 Aug 202222 August 2022 • 91 comments
This may be targetted – the T&C say that it is for ‘select users’ – but I have an offer in my Uber app offering me £20 per passenger of Uber credit if I book a flight. .....
This may be targetted – the T&C say that it is for ‘select users’ – but I have an .....
26 Nov 202326 November 2023 • 24 comments
IHG One Rewards has cut the price of its tickets for upcoming EPCR Challenge Cup and Heineken Champions Cup rugby games. These can be found on the IHG Access platform. The UK games are in Belfast, .....
IHG One Rewards has cut the price of its tickets for upcoming EPCR Challenge Cup and Heineken Champions Cup .....
6 Dec 20226 December 2022 • 8 comments
As spotted by Simple Flying, British Airways is bringing its long haul Boeing 777 and 787 aircraft to selected European flights this Spring. This is not the first time this has happened – during .....
As spotted by Simple Flying, British Airways is bringing its long haul Boeing 777 and 787 aircraft to selected .....
5 Feb 20235 February 2023 • 76 comments
As we slowly get back into things after Christmas, Rhys and I are bringing you our annual reflections on our travel year gone by. If you’re looking for exciting tales of new aircraft and .....
As we slowly get back into things after Christmas, Rhys and I are bringing you our annual reflections on our .....
26 Dec 202426 December 2024 • 54 comments
SportBusiness has an exclusive story on Qatar Airways replacing Emirates as the official airline partner of Formula 1. To quote: Qatar Airways is set to be announced as the new airline sponsor of .....
SportBusiness has an exclusive story on Qatar Airways replacing Emirates as the official airline partner of .....
20 Jan 202320 January 2023 • 29 comments
The White House announced this afternoon that it was dropping all Covid-19 testing requirements for air travellers arriving into the US. The rule had required all arriving air passengers to present a .....
The White House announced this afternoon that it was dropping all Covid-19 testing requirements for air .....
10 Jun 202210 June 2022 • 88 comments
Marriott Bonvoy has been running the ‘1-Point Drop’ for a while now, primarily in the US. This is the first time that we have featured one in the UK. It’s very simple. At a certain .....
Marriott Bonvoy has been running the ‘1-Point Drop’ for a while now, primarily in the US. This is .....
24 Mar 202524 March 2025 • 66 comments
This is our review of Club Eurostar, the Eurostar loyalty scheme. We don’t give Club Eurostar much coverage on Head for Points, mainly because it doesn’t run many promotions and we are .....
This is our review of Club Eurostar, the Eurostar loyalty scheme. We don’t give Club Eurostar much .....
23 Jan 202523 January 2025 • 26 comments
This is our review of the Hilton Molino Stucky Venice hotel. Hilton is currently running its latest sale for hotels and resorts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. You can get up to 20% .....
This is our review of the Hilton Molino Stucky Venice hotel. Hilton is currently running its latest sale for .....
27 Jul 202427 July 2024 • 47 comments
Using your phone abroad can quickly get expensive when you rely on your existing phone line. Fortunately, a simple workaround has emerged in the past few years, enabled by new eSIM technology found in .....
Using your phone abroad can quickly get expensive when you rely on your existing phone line. Fortunately, a .....
12 Jan 202512 January 2025 • 239 comments
How many tier points do you earn from a British Airways flight? We haven’t updated our tier point calculator for a while so it was time for a refresh. I think all the new routes have been added .....
How many tier points do you earn from a British Airways flight? We haven’t updated our tier point .....
24 Mar 202424 March 2024 • 58 comments
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