The British Airways shopping portal at shopping.ba.com is offering 50% bonus Avios points on selected retailers until September 22nd. The special rates, including the bonus, are: PC World – 3 .....

The British Airways shopping portal at shopping.ba.com is offering 50% bonus Avios points on selected .....

15 Sep 201315 September 2013 by Rob Burgess • 9 comments

Here is an interesting promotion which may offer decent savings if you are willing to be flexible! As per this web page, British Airways is offering a 15% discount code to shoppers at German .....

Here is an interesting promotion which may offer decent savings if you are willing to be flexible! As per this .....

15 Sep 201315 September 2013 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments

British Airways has teamed up with Hilton HHonors, for some reason, to offer a special £100 discount on Club Europe flights this Autumn.   You don’t need to be a Hilton HHonors member to take .....

British Airways has teamed up with Hilton HHonors, for some reason, to offer a special £100 discount on Club .....

14 Sep 201314 September 2013 by Rob Burgess • 11 comments

Until 15th October, British Airways is offering a 25% bonus if you transfer hotel points from seven major loyalty schemes into Avios. Since most of the hotel programmes allow you to buy points – .....

Until 15th October, British Airways is offering a 25% bonus if you transfer hotel points from seven major .....

13 Sep 201313 September 2013 by Rob Burgess • 4 comments

Earlier this year, British Airways rolled out ‘hand baggage only’ fares from Gatwick.  This was a tactical move to stop the drift of customers to easyJet – now the biggest airline .....

Earlier this year, British Airways rolled out ‘hand baggage only’ fares from Gatwick.  This was a .....

12 Sep 201312 September 2013 by Rob Burgess • 29 comments

I have finally got around to booking the free night at a luxury Melia hotel that is available to all American Express Platinum cardholders. (This offer is also available to anyone who takes out a .....

I have finally got around to booking the free night at a luxury Melia hotel that is available to all American .....

11 Sep 201311 September 2013 by Rob Burgess • 24 comments

If you log in at ba.com you will see that there is a new feature.  On the top line, next to My Avios and My Tier Points you will see ‘My Lifetime Tier Points’. And, if you scroll down .....

If you log in at ba.com you will see that there is a new feature.  On the top line, next to My Avios and My .....

11 Sep 201311 September 2013 by Rob Burgess • 26 comments

Assuming that their advertising campaign has worked, UK readers will be in no doubt that Lloyds Bank has split off 600 of its branches to form a new bank, TSB (albeit using a brand that Lloyds .....

Assuming that their advertising campaign has worked, UK readers will be in no doubt that Lloyds Bank has split .....

10 Sep 201310 September 2013 by Rob Burgess • 36 comments

British Airways dropped a surprise last week when it announced a new route to Austin, Texas. This is certainly not one that was on the radar for new routes. More surprisingly, the route will be .....

British Airways dropped a surprise last week when it announced a new route to Austin, Texas. This is certainly .....

9 Sep 20139 September 2013 by Rob Burgess • 12 comments

Back in June I wrote this excessively complex article about the most effective way to earn Avios points when buying petrol. Shell did not come out of it too well – you would earn a lot more .....

Back in June I wrote this excessively complex article about the most effective way to earn Avios points when .....

6 Sep 20136 September 2013 by Rob Burgess • 15 comments

If you are opted in to receive junk email from American Express, charge card holders should have had an email yesterday offering them a conversion bonus if they moved their Membership Rewards points .....

If you are opted in to receive junk email from American Express, charge card holders should have had an .....

4 Sep 20134 September 2013 by Rob Burgess • 72 comments

Yesterday I published details of Qatar Airways entry into the oneworld alliance, which now seems set for 1st October (but possibly still 31st October, depending on what you read).  From that date, .....

Yesterday I published details of Qatar Airways entry into the oneworld alliance, which now seems set for 1st .....

31 Aug 201331 August 2013 by Rob Burgess • 2 comments

I posted a couple of weeks ago that American Express Currency Exchange had resigned from its positions in Heathrow Terminal 5.  These booths, including the one in the British Airways lounge, are .....

I posted a couple of weeks ago that American Express Currency Exchange had resigned from its positions in .....

28 Aug 201328 August 2013 by Rob Burgess • 23 comments

British Airways has launched its semi-regular Autumn promotion on long-haul travel. And it’s a good one – 30,000 bonus Avios for a return flight (or two one-way flights) in Club World or .....

British Airways has launched its semi-regular Autumn promotion on long-haul travel. And it’s a good one .....

22 Aug 201322 August 2013 by Rob Burgess • 24 comments