Virgin LATAM partnership Virgin Atlantic has announced a new codeshare agreement with LATAM Airlines offering customers the opportunity to fly seamlessly to the South American country of Brazil. LATAM’s new business class seats are pretty good. I have only done a short hop with them on their older business class…
Virgin Atlantic Hopefully Virgin do something a bit more exciting like last year for the actual day, but in the meantime, there is Black Friday week sale. You can save up to £200 on return flights from 22nd Nov 00:00 to 29th Nov 23:59. You can find the sale page…
Sadly LATAM is no longer part of oneworld, but if you are not worried about alliances, then they have some great value fares to South America. The other good news is that their B777s should all be equipped with their brand new seats by now. Most of the flights from…
Oneworld considers alliance wide upgrades According to Australian magazine Executive Traveller, oneworld are considering introducing a system that would allow members to use their miles to upgrade on any of the member airlines. At present with British Airway Avios, you can only upgrade on British Airways, Iberia or American, providing…
Virgin Atlantic is expanding its operation out of Manchester Airport, with brand new flights from its Northern base, the opening of a new Clubhouse and a refurbished Virgin Holidays v-room at the airport. Virgin will also be expanding its schedule from Manchester The new schedule includes additional flights to Barbados,…
Business class to Brazil under £1000 on oneworld If you are looking to fly to Brazil the cheapest way is usually flying on LATAM. The airline are part of Oneworld and therefore will yield BA tier points and Avios for the flights. There are some very cheap fares currently out…
BA/Iberia tier point break from £160 I generally don’t do Tier points runs in the traditional sense, I like to actually see something of a place if I can (though Paul our resident tier point runner is a bit more extreme in this respect). Weekend breaks with one or two nights…
If you are after some tier points and the chance to try a long haul product on short haul, then the LATAM route between Frankfurt and Madrid is the perfect opportunity. You could then add in an open jaw between London and Frankfurt/Madrid to make up 120 tier points. I…
Brazil in business from £1278 – earn Avios and Tier points too There is currently another good deal to Brazil with oneworld airline LATAM in business class. Sao Paolo is the only direct destination rather than Rio but you can learn more about travelling around South America using Avios in this article….
Our newest addition to the TLFL team, Claudio the Correspondent, is not only an InterContinental hotels expert, he is also our resident South America expert. Claudio is from Brazil and frequently travels back to his home country and South America using a variety of means to keep the cost down. Today,…
