BA last-minute holiday deals British Airway has some last-minute holiday deals if you are looking to get away in the next few weeks. Don’t forget that BA still has a double tier point offer. To qualify, you’ll need to book a holiday (flights + hotel or flights + car) of…
Today’s reader review from Max is of one of the many wet leases that BA are using to get around it’s crew issues. Leasing an aircraft “wet” means it comes complete with crew. Food and drink should be the same as you would get on a BA flight. I will…
American Airlines Avios earning I recently wrote about the change to Gold Upgrades vouchers as you can now use them on American Airlines. Also hidden with this change is the fact that the earning rate of Avios on American Airlines has also been improved. Previously you earned a different amount…
BA strike ballot update Yesterday I wrote about BA’s ground staff voting on a strike ballot. BA have put out an official statement so in the spirit of fairness, here are their thoughts on the dispute. Whatever the vote result is, I am of the belief that BA will not…
Gold upgrades just got more useful For those that earn a high number of tier points each year, a very useful reward is earned at 2500 and 3500 tier points. These consist of an upgrade voucher for two people and two upgrade vouchers for one person respectively. The vouchers can…
BA Brandygate Recently BA’s cognac has disappeared from most of their lounges and from onboard both long and haul flights, even in first class. The printed menus no longer feature it which made me wonder if this was a permanent removal from BA. A lot of readers were understandably quite…
A few weeks ago I had some time to kill so I headed around the various British Airways’ lounges at Heathrow’s terminal 5. If you want to see what the Galleries Club lounge is like (BA Silver and Business class) then head over to this article. This is the review…
First class from £1912 The fare is available from Paris to New York with plenty of availability up to at least the end of the year. Although there are no limits on what days you can fly, it’s not available every day so you may need to be a bit…
This is the return journey from the outbound flight I wrote about here. My friend Steven was flying the same route but in World Traveller a few days before me, so I thought it would be interesting to also take a look at how his journey was on the same…
Japan to reopen in June Other than China with its zero Covid policy, Japan is one of the last countries in Asia to allow visitors back in. In a visit to London this week, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced that border restrictions will begin to relax over summer. The…
