Today’s trip report is by regular reader Eugene. If you would like to see your trip report published, please email [email protected] My wife and I were meant to be flying to Los Angeles. However, due to the USA not being open for general travel from the UK we had to…
As soon as one sale closes, another opens with British Airways. The moral of the story is, don’t book at full price! I have started to book some flights for 2022 now and am feeling a little more optimistic about travel now restrictions are slowly lifting. With BA’s book with…
Today British Airways’s parent company IAG presented its interim Q2 results along with some information about its plans for the future. Here are the main points: The airline is planning to ramp-up from 150 flights per day in early June to 340 in late August. This is most likely as…
Check-in I had a horrendous journey to the airport but still got there around 2.5 hours before. The First Wing has been closing by 2pm at that time so I wanted to get there in plenty of time so I could use the check-in there for my rather large suitcase…
British Airways flights Faro to Heathrow and VeriFly British Airways is currently trialling digital travel app, VeriFLY, on routes to the US, France, Ireland, Barbados, Bahamas, and Canada, as well as all inbound international flights. Once a customer has had their travel documentation certified through the app they will be…
You can read about my outbound journey here and my stay at the Anantara Vilamoura Algarve here. Returning to the U.K. is more complicated than travelling to the vast majority of countries that are accepting visitors. Even with a green country you still need a negative Covid test less than…
British Airways has significantly increased the number of seats that can be booked using Avios, the reward miles currency used by the airline, on every flight. Using Avios at the moment is the easiest way to book flights as you can cancel or change up to 24 hours prior to…
This is part of my Jersey trip series. You can find the other articles here: Luxury guide to Jersey Heathrow to Jersey in Club Europe plus Jersey arrival experience Jersey entry requirements Testing times in Jersey – issues with testing requirements Longueville Manor Review Check-in and lounge Jersey airport…
Today was an important day for travellers. For the first time in 2021, travellers were able to take to the skies again for leisure, well to a rather limited list of destinations anyway. Paul was there at stupid o’clock this morning to fly to Gibraltar with British Airways. This was…
Is British Airways trying to go upmarket again? When BA announced it was closing its Elemis spas for good, most of us feared the worst. Memories of a few years ago during the time of “death by a thousand cuts” were brought back as we thought that BA would use…
