If you missed our article last week, American Express is now accepted at ALDI. A ‘£5 cashback when you spend £10’ offer appeared on many Amex cards yesterday – I have it on my .....

If you missed our article last week, American Express is now accepted at ALDI. A ‘£5 cashback when you .....

8 Feb 20188 February 2018 by Rob Burgess • 102 comments

Accor Hotels, which own Novotel / Ibis / Mercure / M Gallery / Sofitel / Pullman etc, has brought back its potentially generous promotion to earn 6,000 bonus Avios or €120! You will earn €120 of .....

Accor Hotels, which own Novotel / Ibis / Mercure / M Gallery / Sofitel / Pullman etc, has brought back its .....

7 Feb 20187 February 2018 by Rob Burgess • 27 comments

It looks like ALDI is starting to target American Express cardholders.  There have been rumours about the discount supermarket starting to accept Amex but as we couldn’t find anything .....

It looks like ALDI is starting to target American Express cardholders.  There have been rumours about the .....

1 Feb 20181 February 2018 by Anika Burnett • 99 comments

For a while, ba.com has been promoting British Airways American Express cards to random visitors during the booking process. Whilst this is a perfectly logical time to try to catch a new customer, the .....

For a while, ba.com has been promoting British Airways American Express cards to random visitors during the .....

24 Jan 201824 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • Leave a comment

Many of the credit card posts on Head for Points are focused on sign-up bonuses.  Get a card, spend the minimum required to trigger the bonus, cancel the card, move on.  After a period, you .....

Many of the credit card posts on Head for Points are focused on sign-up bonuses.  Get a card, spend the .....

23 Jan 201823 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 341 comments

Two readers have contacted me in recent days to say that they have been told by the American Express call centre that imminent changes are coming to the way sign-up bonuses are earned. The two stories .....

Two readers have contacted me in recent days to say that they have been told by the American Express call .....

16 Jan 201816 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • Leave a comment

Back in September we first wrote about Billhop, a Swedish company that lets you pay almost ANY bill with a credit or charge card – including American Express cards. You can probably imagine how .....

Back in September we first wrote about Billhop, a Swedish company that lets you pay almost ANY bill with a .....

6 Jan 20186 January 2018 by Anika Burnett • 17 comments

British Airways and American Express have launched a new cashback or points deal which appears generous, especially as it can be combined with the current sale deals. Remember that there are Club .....

British Airways and American Express have launched a new cashback or points deal which appears generous, .....

4 Jan 20184 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 96 comments

I have covered the HSBC Premier World Elite MasterCard in some detail in the past – my full review is here.  It is a VERY attractive MasterCard product if you want to earn Avios. There is a .....

I have covered the HSBC Premier World Elite MasterCard in some detail in the past – my full review is .....

2 Jan 20182 January 2018 by Rob Burgess • 53 comments

It is three months since I last did a round up of what is coming and what is going in the world of UK airline and hotel credit card sign-up deals.  The reason for the delay is that things got a .....

It is three months since I last did a round up of what is coming and what is going in the world of UK airline .....

30 Dec 201730 December 2017 by Rob Burgess • 50 comments

People who drift into this odd hobby of ours often apply for a couple of credit or charge cards almost at random, perhaps because they were on promotion or because they didn’t know any better. .....

People who drift into this odd hobby of ours often apply for a couple of credit or charge cards almost at .....

13 Dec 201713 December 2017 by Rob Burgess • 148 comments

British Airways has made an internal announcement that it is phasing out in-flight shopping on short-haul flights from January. January 2018 sees the arrival of the first A320 / A321 NEO aircraft .....

British Airways has made an internal announcement that it is phasing out in-flight shopping on short-haul .....

2 Dec 20172 December 2017 by Rob Burgess • 131 comments

If you have an American Express credit or charge card (some exceptions apply), you can make big savings on your Christmas shopping from this Saturday until 17th December with ‘Shop Small’. .....

If you have an American Express credit or charge card (some exceptions apply), you can make big savings on .....

1 Dec 20171 December 2017 by Anika Burnett • 118 comments

News in brief: BA owner IAG buys Monarch’s Gatwick landing slots IAG, the parent of British Airways, confirmed last night that it had bought the landing slots at Gatwick Airport previously used .....

News in brief: BA owner IAG buys Monarch’s Gatwick landing slots IAG, the parent of British Airways, .....

28 Nov 201728 November 2017 by Rob Burgess • 223 comments