The best part of collecting Avios is when you find a bargain business or first class flight that actually has availability. If you want some tips on finding the flights you want read here. For tips on booking with other airlines, try this article. Now onto the fun bit…. The…
Today’s article is written by our newest member of the team, Claudio the Correspondent. You can find out more about Claudio on the About us page. Kiev seems to be getting more and more popular these days when people think about a destination for a long weekend break. The newest…
Luxembourg does not have any special number of tier points other than the usual 40 each way in Club Europe. However, it consistently offers some of the cheapest Club Europe fares and is a quick, easy place to go for a short break. Even with a one night stay, you…
There has been a lot of rumours that there would be a major Avios announcement last week with the temporary disappearance of BA First rewards adding to the speculation. It has just been announced that the UK Avios.com platform is to close as a separate entity. Although we knew there would…
British Airways – that Alex Cruz interview When I had heard that more news was about to emerge regarding the proposed changes to the Avios scheme I was not expecting it to be in an interview to the South China Morning Post of all things! You may well have seen…
Singapore business class fares from Stockholm Although Singapore Airlines have sales out of the UK the prices are still normally incredibly expensive. When I recently flew to Auckland recently, I flew from Stockholm on Singapore’s relatively new service for only around £2100 in business class. Singapore has now launched a sale…
BA Titan charters BA have seriously overextended themselves fleet-wise with their purchase of Monarch’s slots at Gatwick. They have gradually been quietly announcing via their website a number of charter companies operating flights on their behalf from both Gatwick and Heathrow. BA have now filed a number of their routes…
BA new Club World There has been a lot of discussions over at Flyertalk and on other blogs about the new Club World service which I reviewed here. As I reported a while ago, no sooner had British Airways rolled out the first routes after JFK with the new service…
Vouchers One of the easiest way to get enough Avios for a business class flight is to use a voucher. There are 3 main ways to get a voucher. The first 2 are by owning a particular credit card and the 3rd is by earning 2500 tier points as a…
One of the most annoying things for me is paying for business class and then finding out there is no lounge or priority security if those facilities are available for other airline’s customers. BA has a surprising number of these with compensation varying from a reasonable amount in vouchers to…
