British Airways has launched its January sale, a few days earlier than usual. We will admit that it isn’t the most exciting sale ever. Whilst you can normally get some good deals in the BA Boxing Day sales the fares, as they currently stand, are unenticing. Transatlantic flights are virtually undiscounted, although other destinations are […]
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BA Holidays extends its ‘double tier points’ offer but toughens its Covid refund rules
If you are looking to earn some British Airways Executive Club tier points to take advantage of the reduced tier point thresholds for 2022 – see our article here – BA Holidays can help. BA Holidays has extended its double tier points offer. If you book a ‘flight and hotel’ or ‘flight and car’ package […]
Read MoreLAST CALL: Apply for 60,000 free Avios worth £480+ if you are an NHS employee
Tomorrow, Thursday, is the last day to apply for IAG Loyalty’s generous Avios giveaway. 3,000 NHS employees will be chosen to receive 60,000 Avios each. This is worth at least £480, which is the value if converted to Nectar points and spent in Sainsburys. The Avios have been donated by both IAG Loyalty and by […]
Read MoreBIG NEWS: British Airways extends Executive Club elite status – for some – and reduced tier points
British Airways has announced another 12 months extension of elite status for some Executive Club members. The screw continues to tighten, however. The initial extension in 2020 covered all members. The previous extension in September 2021 covered a quarter of the membership base. This new extension also covers only a quarter of members. The good […]
Read MoreBA is cancelling and refunding some Future Travel Vouchers – is your 2-4-1 voucher still protected?
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, British Airways – along with most other airlines – did everything in its power to stop passengers receiving cash refunds for cancelled flights. One of our most read articles in 2020, with over 75,000 views, was a hack to get around the removal of the cancellation options on […]
Read MoreNEW: Get 50%-100% bonus Avios and lower fees on FX transfers with Midpoint
This article has been sponsored by Midpoint Earlier this year we ran an exclusive offer on currency transfers with Midpoint. The company is a well-established Avios partner and feedback from HfP readers has always been positive. The offer has been repeated a couple of times but Midpoint has now informed us their Avios partnership is ending […]
Read MoreYou can, effectively, buy British Airways Gold and Silver status from Finnair – is it worth it?
I am deliberately not making a big song and dance about this offer because I do not have a great understand of Finnair’s Finnair Plus loyalty programme. Because I don’t know all of the intricacies over redemptions costs, taxes, expiry policies etc I don’t want to be seen to be recommending this deal, because I’m […]
Read MoreBits: don’t do an FX transfer today, Qantas launching DIRECT flights to Rome, new Moxy Manchester
News in brief: Don’t do a big FX transfer this weekend! If you are planning any sort of foreign exchange transfer this weekend, I suggest that you wait until Monday. We will be launching an exclusive HfP offer in association with long-established Avios partner Midpoint. It will be your last opportunity to earn Avios with […]
Read MoreBits: win 10,000 Avios with The Club, Accor Diamond’s get their vouchers, United lounge reopens
News in brief: Win 10,000 Avios with BA’s The Club magazine The Club, the British Airways online magazine for Executive Club members, is giving away 10 x 10,000 Avios in a competition to celebrate 10 years of the scheme. It is very easy to enter – all you need is your British Airways membership number. […]
Read MoreBritish Airways adds new A380 routes to the US and Canada, with good Avios availability
British Airways has been tweaking its A380 North America schedule for 2022. This has led to my Easter flight to San Francisco being swapped to a Boeing 777, but on the upside it is showing as Club Suite. The following routes have seen the A380 added to their schedule: Boston Chicago Dallas Fort Worth Vancouver […]
Read MoreBOOK NOW: 35 new British Airways Gatwick routes bookable for cash and Avios
British Airways has just announced the routes that it will be flying from London Gatwick for Summer 2022. Tickets to 35 destinations have just been released at ba.com. If you want Avios seats for peak Summer dates then I recommend you book NOW. Don’t rush to book cash tickets, as you may find that discounted […]
Read MoreBritish Airways (re-)launches flights to Portland and Pittsburgh
British Airways has announced that it is launching flights to Portland, Oregon in 2022. This is the second time BA has announced the route. It first announced it would fly to Portland in December 2019, with flights starting in June 2020. That – obviously – never happened, and the flights were pulled from schedules entirely […]
Read MoreHow expatriates in the UK can earn 100,000 Avios points by joining Citigold Expat
Citibank runs an Avios-earning deal for expats in the UK who move their banking to Citi. Citibank has a standard Avios-earning offer for UK residents who sign up with Citigold Wealth Management, which has been running for two year now. Full details are on the Citigold Wealth Management website here. We covered the Citigold / […]
Read MoreBA’s 60,000 Avios giveaway now open to ALL NHS employees in the UK
On Friday, we published details of IAG Loyalty’s generous Avios giveaway. 3,000 NHS employees will be chosen to receive 60,000 Avios each. This is worth at least £480, which is the value if converted to Nectar points and spent in Sainsburys. For reasons too complicated to explain – although there was a reason – the […]
Read MoreNHS employee? You can apply for 60,000 FREE Avios worth at least £480
In May 2020, Avios asked members to donate points towards an appeal for NHS staff. The plan was to reward NHS workers for their efforts during the pandemic. As we reported here, 305 million Avios were donated. IAG Loyalty donated 210 million and members donated 95 million. If you are an NHS employee, you can […]
Read MoreREMINDER: Get up to 10,000 Avios with household, business, medical or landlord insurance, or RAC cover
You may not know that Avios has an insurance partner – Alan Boswell Group. It is a fairly low key partnership, but the company has worked with Avios (both via the Avios Travel Rewards Programme and most recently via British Airways Excecutive Club) for a number of years. Many HfP readers have used Alan Boswell Group […]
Read MoreBits: redeem Avios on new Finnair routes, €1188 BA Club Suite to Dubai, bonus Accor points in December
News in brief: Finnair adds more new routes for 2022 Barely a month goes by at the moment without a new route announcement from Finnair, a British Airways partner in the oneworld alliance. Last month we covered the start of services to Busan in South Korea, Tokyo Haneda and Sapporo. It is also bulking up […]
Read MoreWant Avios reward flights? These BA routes have the most Avios seats in Business and First
Here is something to strike up a debate for your Monday morning. Which British Airways routes have the most and least Avios availability in Club World business class and First Class? Two years ago we did an interesting analysis to answer this exact question. A lot has changed in two years, of course. In terms […]
Read MoreHow to earn Avios when you fly United Airlines – at higher rates than BA for Economy
As there are four separate Avios loyalty schemes – British Airways Executive Club, Iberia Plus, Aer Lingus AerClub and Vueling Club – which each have their own partners, you would expect some oddities to turn up. This is one of the biggest ones. Bizarrely, Aer Lingus AerClub lets you earn Avios when flying United Airlines, […]
Read MoreCan you convert Club Eurostar points to Avios?
I get the occasional reader email asking if you can convert Club Eurostar points into British Airways Avios points. The answer is yes, you can, but there are two snags: it is a bit fiddly, and more importantly ….. you will lose a lot of value How do you convert Eurostar points to Avios? You […]
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