Here is the latest edition of our regular feature which summarises offers that are ending soon. It pulls together the different deals mentioned on our Top Avios Points Earning Offers, Top Hotel Bonus .....

Here is the latest edition of our regular feature which summarises offers that are ending soon. It pulls .....

18 Mar 201818 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments

Here are details of the new fares on the old Heathrow Connect stopping service from Paddington to Heathrow which passes to the control of TFL Rail from 20th May.  Once the central section of .....

Here are details of the new fares on the old Heathrow Connect stopping service from Paddington to .....

17 Mar 201817 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • 105 comments

Carlisle Lake District airport reopens to passenger traffic on 4th June. As the airport is owned by Stobart Group, which also owns London Southend Airport and runs Flybe franchise services, it was .....

Carlisle Lake District airport reopens to passenger traffic on 4th June. As the airport is owned by Stobart .....

16 Mar 201816 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • 39 comments

Heathrow Express has kindly given us five pairs of Business First return tickets, worth £110 per pair, to give away this week. We thought it would be fun to try something new. Instead of doing one .....

Heathrow Express has kindly given us five pairs of Business First return tickets, worth £110 per pair, to .....

16 Mar 201816 March 2018 by Anika Burnett • 10 comments

I wanted to give our luxury hotel booking service another mention today, in case you are starting to make your holiday plans for the Summer. Since I launched this service a year ago with Emyr Thomas .....

I wanted to give our luxury hotel booking service another mention today, in case you are starting to make your .....

16 Mar 201816 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • Leave a comment

The nature of HfP – a site which runs a large number of detail-heavy articles seven days a week written by a team of two – means that errors do occasionally creep in. Whilst these are .....

The nature of HfP – a site which runs a large number of detail-heavy articles seven days a week written .....

14 Mar 201814 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • Leave a comment

Tomorrow, Wednesday, is the 10th anniversary of the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5. Anyone who was caught up in the opening has hopefully got over the trauma by now.  The plan was to do an overnight .....

Tomorrow, Wednesday, is the 10th anniversary of the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5. Anyone who was caught up .....

13 Mar 201813 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • 60 comments

This is Part 2 of my review of the Thistle Heathrow hotel and the driverless pods you can use to get from the hotel directly to Terminal 5. In Part 1, see here, I did a brief review of the Thistle .....

This is Part 2 of my review of the Thistle Heathrow hotel and the driverless pods you can use to get from the .....

10 Mar 201810 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • 30 comments

Yesterday I reviewed the new Plaza Premium departure lounge at Heathrow Terminal 5 – click here. It is a classy but small lounge.  You cannot get in with a Priority Pass or Lounge Club .....

Yesterday I reviewed the new Plaza Premium departure lounge at Heathrow Terminal 5 – click here. It is a .....

9 Mar 20189 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • Leave a comment

One thing I picked up on my trip to ITB in Berlin this week was a discount code for BMI Regional. Discount code captain will get you 10% off your next flight. It is valid for bookings by, .....

One thing I picked up on my trip to ITB in Berlin this week was a discount code for BMI Regional. .....

9 Mar 20189 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • 88 comments

If you thought that South African Airways was the major airline in Africa, you’re wrong.  Following major investment in recent years, Ethiopian Airlines is now Africa’s largest airline .....

If you thought that South African Airways was the major airline in Africa, you’re wrong.  Following .....

8 Mar 20188 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • Leave a comment

How does the idea of a free credit card which has NO foreign exchange fees and pays you 0.5% cashback on all your spending sound? Tempting, I imagine, which is why we thought we would take a closer .....

How does the idea of a free credit card which has NO foreign exchange fees and pays you 0.5% cashback on all .....

6 Mar 20186 March 2018 by Anika Burnett • 111 comments

If you came to the Head for Points Christmas party in December you may have met Laurence Grissell from BBC Radio 4.  He was – with our permission – looking for interesting characters .....

If you came to the Head for Points Christmas party in December you may have met Laurence Grissell from BBC .....

5 Mar 20185 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • 86 comments

Whilst cashback credit cards are not directly relevant to the Head for Points travel focus, we keep an eye on the market because it is the sensible thing to do.  Miles and points from credit card .....

Whilst cashback credit cards are not directly relevant to the Head for Points travel focus, we keep an eye on .....

4 Mar 20184 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • Leave a comment