News in brief: Intriguing Iberia / Avis promotion Iberia and Avis have launched an interesting new promotion to win a share of 25,000,000 Avios. This is how it works.  You book and complete an Avis .....

News in brief: Intriguing Iberia / Avis promotion Iberia and Avis have launched an interesting new promotion .....

10 Jul 201710 July 2017 by Rob Burgess • 98 comments

News in brief: Virgin West Coast sale now on Virgin Trains has been running a special sale this week which continues until Tuesday. Here are the headline fares: Birmingham to London one way from only .....

News in brief: Virgin West Coast sale now on Virgin Trains has been running a special sale this week which .....

9 Jul 20179 July 2017 by Rob Burgess • 7 comments

The sun is out, so  I thought it was a good time to update our ‘Holiday Tips’ series in preparation for the Summer season.   Future articles will look at earning miles from credit cards .....

The sun is out, so  I thought it was a good time to update our ‘Holiday Tips’ series in .....

21 Jun 201721 June 2017 by Rob Burgess • 64 comments

News in brief: Tesco Clubcard to Virgin Flying Club bonus now running It turns out that Virgin Flying Club is running a low-key conversion bonus for anyone with Tesco Clubcard vouchers this month. It .....

News in brief: Tesco Clubcard to Virgin Flying Club bonus now running It turns out that Virgin Flying Club is .....

12 Jun 201712 June 2017 by Rob Burgess • 59 comments

Avios (through Iberia Plus) and Avis have teamed up to offer another generous car rental promotion.  It’s nowhere near as good as the ‘18,000 Avios for a weekend rental’ offer they .....

Avios (through Iberia Plus) and Avis have teamed up to offer another generous car rental promotion. .....

6 May 20176 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 34 comments

News in brief: £9.98 one-way Avis car rentals to London Regular readers will remember our article last year on Europcar offering £1 one-way car rentals to London.  Europcar uses this to cheaply .....

News in brief: £9.98 one-way Avis car rentals to London Regular readers will remember our article last year .....

23 Mar 201723 March 2017 by Rob Burgess • 63 comments

News in brief: Big British Airways changes at Manchester? Following on from the launch of BA’s weekend European flights from Manchester, I have heard from a couple of sources that other major .....

News in brief: Big British Airways changes at Manchester? Following on from the launch of BA’s weekend .....

12 Feb 201712 February 2017 by Rob Burgess • 74 comments

News in brief: €100 status credit with any Avis rental A reader sent me a link to this new Avis offer.  If you are signed up to Avis Preferred and make a booking in the current Avis sale, for .....

News in brief: €100 status credit with any Avis rental A reader sent me a link to this new Avis offer.  If .....

18 Jan 201718 January 2017 by Rob Burgess • 63 comments

American Express seems to be trialling exclusive cashback deals for Facebook users. Unfortunately, we are about to ruin their experiment by publicising the deal here and generating a few thousand .....

American Express seems to be trialling exclusive cashback deals for Facebook users. Unfortunately, we are .....

10 Jan 201710 January 2017 by Rob Burgess • 60 comments

I was having a poke around the Avios website yesterday – trying to find any other redemptions which are being quietly withdrawn! – when I spotted something I hadn’t focused on .....

I was having a poke around the Avios website yesterday – trying to find any other redemptions which are .....

31 Dec 201631 December 2016 by Rob Burgess • 44 comments

News in brief: British Airways cabin crew to strike The British Airways ‘mixed fleet’ cabin crew – which is pretty much everyone who has been hired since 2010 – have voted for .....

News in brief: British Airways cabin crew to strike The British Airways ‘mixed fleet’ cabin crew .....

15 Dec 201615 December 2016 by Rob Burgess • 86 comments

A couple of weeks ago I ran this article about a shockingly generous Avios promotion run by car rental group Avis. If you hired a Group C or above Avis car for three days, starting on December 8th, .....

A couple of weeks ago I ran this article about a shockingly generous Avios promotion run by car rental group .....

12 Dec 201612 December 2016 by Rob Burgess • 173 comments

Iberia Plus and Avis have launched a very low key promotion which a HfP reader flagged up last night. If you can make this work for you, you could do very nicely. Take a look here. Avis is offering .....

Iberia Plus and Avis have launched a very low key promotion which a HfP reader flagged up last night. If you .....

30 Nov 201630 November 2016 by Rob Burgess • 297 comments

If all goes to plan, we should have a fantastic competition to win a very large pile of Avios exclusively for Head for Points readers over the next week or so. In the meantime, you might want to have .....

If all goes to plan, we should have a fantastic competition to win a very large pile of Avios exclusively for .....

29 Nov 201629 November 2016 by Rob Burgess • 43 comments