Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: Emirates launches a January sale Emirates launched its January sale last week. Looking only at Business Class, I was struggling to find any great deals – although Emirates is not known for its aggressive pricing. Details are here. Most long haul destinations in Asia or Africa are in the £2,000 to £2,500 […]
Category: Air France KLM and Flying Blue
Bits: £1699 to Dubai in Emirates Business Class, decent KLM and Air France business class sale
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: Emirates launches a January sale Emirates launched its January sale last week. Looking only at Business Class, I was struggling to find any great deals – although Emirates is not known for its aggressive pricing. Details are here. Most long haul destinations in Asia or Africa are in the £2,000 to £2,500 […]
Get 500 bonus Accor points, worth €10, when you link your Flying Blue account and do one stay
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
Regular readers will remember that, back in November, I did a series of three articles on different aspects of the Accor Live Limitless programme. They looked at what I learned after hitting Diamond status following a stay at Fairmont Barbados. One article looked at the Accor Live Limitless partnership with Flying Blue. If you have […]
How to earn Virgin Atlantic Silver and Gold status flying with KLM and Air France
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
This is your complete guide to earning Virgin Flying Club tier points from flights on Air France and KLM. The partnership between Virgin Atlantic, Air France and KLM launched in February 2020. This was, of course, terrible timing. No sooner had we published our initial coverage then the UK slipped into lockdown. With travel now […]
Fly to Bangkok in Business Class for £798 (ex-Stockholm)
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
Air France and KLM have launched a very aggressive deal from Stockholm to Bangkok, for travel up to the end of June 2022. It’s obviously a bit of a faff getting from the UK to Stockholm (not included in the fare), flying to Paris or Amsterdam and then on to Bangkok, but if you are […]
SkyTeam status match now extended to 25 airlines including British Airways
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
Last week we covered how you can get status in the SkyTeam airline alliance by matching your British Airways Executive Club status. This is due to the launch of ITA Airways, the replacement airline for the bankrupt Alitalia, and its new frequent flyer programme Volare. If you are successfully matched, your new SkyTeam status will […]
How does YOTEL’s Club@YOTEL loyalty scheme work?
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
This is our review of Club@YOTEL, the membership scheme for YOTEL hotels. Back in 2018, YOTEL launched a free membership scheme called My YOTEL. It was, frankly, useless. It gave absolutely no benefits at all for frequent guests – literally nothing. The only benefit, in return for giving them all of your details, was a […]
Your complete guide to redeeming Virgin Points on Air France and KLM (Part 2)
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
redeeming Virgin Points on Air France and KLM
Your complete guide to redeeming Virgin Points on Air France and KLM (Part 1)
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
This is your complete guide to redeeming Virgin Points from Virgin Flying Club on Air France and KLM. The partnership between Virgin Atlantic, Air France and KLM launched in February 2020. This was, of course, terrible timing. No sooner had we published our initial coverage then the UK slipped into lockdown. With travel now opening […]
Bits: fly to Nice on Virgin Points, good hotel offers, Amazon Music Unlimited deal
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: Air France launches new direct service to Nice – book on Virgin Points Air France is launching direct flights from London Heathrow to Nice this Summer. The service will start on 28th June and operate on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The reason we mention this is that, as a Virgin Flying […]
Collect Flying Blue miles or use Accor hotels? You can double dip
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
I am running three articles this week to outline three hacks that I used to maximise the Accor Live Limitless points I earned on a stay in Barbados. This is the final one I earned Diamond status in Accor Live Limitless in just one stay, as well as picking up 30,000 points. Part 1 of this […]