Happy Christmas! Head for Points returns on Thursday

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• Bob says:

  25 Dec25 December 06:57

  ” Anika is with her newly acquired relatives!”

  Haha!

  Maybe Rob or/and Anika can write a post about how this can be achievied.

  Does it work like miles and points?
  What are the benefits?
  🙂

• Michael Jennings says:

  25 Dec25 December 07:02

  Merry Christmas from the very reasonably priced Holiday Inn Express Luton Airport.

• Rob Shaw says:

  25 Dec25 December 07:03

  Merry Christmas everybody! Currently in Melbourne (stopped via Singapore for a few days on the way) and onto Sydney for the New Years Eve fireworks before returning to Edinburgh via Hong Kong and Dubai.

  A 3 and a half week trip all in J on a mixture of Emirates and Qantas.

  Thank you for all of the travel tips!

  Rob

• Tom says:

  25 Dec25 December 07:04

  Haven’t travelled anywhere for Christmas, but learned a very valuable and expensive lesson recently.
  In order to use up my Iberia points (from that crazy promotion) I booked Tlv-Lon on iberia.com, for my expecting wife. When it came closer to travel date, i expected to be abke to add our newborn for a few avios and a few Pounds. Then we learned the hard way that Iberia do not allow infant booking using avios. This ended up costing us over £100 (double the amount of tax paid for the adults avios booking).

  BA said the or hands are tied since it’s an Iberia booking. Had I booked with BA originally, it would have costed a few Pounds and 1000 avios.

  Lesson learned: never book for an unborn baby on iberia.com of you can use BA.com

  • John says:

    25 Dec25 December 07:22

    £100 is nothing compared to the cost of a baby, but thanks for this from another expecting dad.

  • Luthar says:

    25 Dec25 December 08:10

    I had the same shock but mine was £1k…

    • Tom H says:

      25 Dec25 December 15:25

      +1 I think you got away very lightly so maybe not so bad!

• Sundar says:

  25 Dec25 December 07:21

  Happy Christmas Rob, Anika and Rhys to you and your families.

  I have travelled to Budapest and Vienna to admire the Christmas markets. Booked last friday for an Avios redemption and Hotel redemptions, thanks to this great site and it’s informative articles.
  Wish the extended HfP family(and their families) a Merry Xmas as well.

• Shoestring says:

  25 Dec25 December 07:32

  Have a Cool Yule, all – coming at you from our place in the sun 🙂

• Nigel the pensioner says:

  25 Dec25 December 07:33

  Rob, your tips and info have been both relevant and valuable. The readership is fantastic fun! We are in Hong Kong (BA A-380 if relevant!) and its lovely……..(to be back)…….What a lunch!
  I hope that you and yours, family and staff, have a fabulous day or two, and i look forward to more info on getting rid of Avios, next year! 🎄🥂🎄

• Marco says:

  25 Dec25 December 08:01

  Merry Christmas from Maspalomas!
  Thanks to your post, I (Hong Kong based) was lucky enough to redeem a single ticket with set of flights for Oct break in Japan (CX F&J), and this Christmas trip to Gran Canaria, Barcelona and London (CX Y&F, BA J, IB Y&J).
  However, with CX withdrawing most of seats from HKG, it’ll be unlikely for me to be in the game for 2019. So… Enjoy while it last!

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