Last week I ran this article suggesting that you should act immediately if you wanted to apply for any of the MBNA airline credit cards. It was good advice. All eight MBNA airline credit cards were .....

Last week I ran this article suggesting that you should act immediately if you wanted to apply for any of the .....

8 Nov 20178 November 2017 by Rob Burgess • 161 comments

One of the key reasons that there is no obvious reason to ditch Avios for another oneworld, SkyTeam or Star Alliance frequent flyer programme is the good value redemptions available in Europe. 9,000 .....

One of the key reasons that there is no obvious reason to ditch Avios for another oneworld, SkyTeam or Star .....

6 Nov 20176 November 2017 by Rob Burgess • 36 comments

The end appears to be coming sooner rather than later for the MBNA-issued airline credit cards which come as an American Express plus Visa or Mastercard double pack. If you had been thinking about .....

The end appears to be coming sooner rather than later for the MBNA-issued airline credit cards which come as .....

1 Nov 20171 November 2017 by Rob Burgess • 118 comments

News in brief: Changes to Head for Points posting for August As is now traditional, Head for Points will be dropping the ‘three posts per day’ schedule for August. History shows that there .....

News in brief: Changes to Head for Points posting for August As is now traditional, Head for Points will be .....

31 Jul 201731 July 2017 by Rob Burgess • 100 comments

News in brief: British Airways to make remaining US ground staff redundant According to reports from BA sources on Flyertalk, it was announced internally on Friday that remaining British Airways .....

News in brief: British Airways to make remaining US ground staff redundant According to reports from BA .....

16 Jul 201716 July 2017 by Rob Burgess • 44 comments

News in brief: Win two passes for the United Club lounge at Heathrow Terminal 2 A reader has generously given me two United Club lounge passes that he does not need.  This is good news for anyone .....

News in brief: Win two passes for the United Club lounge at Heathrow Terminal 2 A reader has generously given .....

12 May 201712 May 2017 by Rob Burgess • 75 comments

A few weeks ago a reader (thank you) sent me an email to ask “Do you know that Instamiles has added Avios and Virgin Flying Club as partners?“. I didn’t, because I had never heard of .....

A few weeks ago a reader (thank you) sent me an email to ask “Do you know that Instamiles has added .....

15 Mar 201715 March 2017 by Rob Burgess • 26 comments

News in brief: Starwood launches more O2 concert tickets Starwood Preferred Guest launched a new batch of O2 concert tickets yesterday. For just 15,000 SPG points (or 45,000 Marriott Rewards points if .....

News in brief: Starwood launches more O2 concert tickets Starwood Preferred Guest launched a new batch of O2 .....

9 Mar 20179 March 2017 by Rob Burgess • 29 comments

News in brief: Hilton Honors ‘points and money’ update We covered the forthcoming changes to the Hilton Honors programme in this article.  A few people asked me what the exact .....

News in brief: Hilton Honors ‘points and money’ update We covered the forthcoming changes to the .....

23 Feb 201723 February 2017 by Rob Burgess • 17 comments

If you are interested in UK travel hacking, Head for Points is, realistically, your only good daily source of news and information.  If you sign up for our daily newsletter or visit the site daily, .....

If you are interested in UK travel hacking, Head for Points is, realistically, your only good daily source of .....

2 Jan 20172 January 2017 by Rob Burgess • 59 comments

Lloyds Bank announced yesterday that it was the winner of the auction to acquire the UK operations of credit card group MBNA from Bank of America.  It paid £1.9bn as well as taking over MBNA’s .....

Lloyds Bank announced yesterday that it was the winner of the auction to acquire the UK operations of credit .....

21 Dec 201621 December 2016 by Rob Burgess • 46 comments

News in brief: United cancels Manchester – Washington United Airlines has announced that it will drop its Manchester to Washington route for Summer 2017 after six years. The airline has already .....

News in brief: United cancels Manchester – Washington United Airlines has announced that it will drop .....

11 Dec 201611 December 2016 by Rob Burgess • 18 comments

This other article today looks at the new Aer Lingus AerClub programme in more detail. As this scheme is now Avios driven, it helps to be aware of any new ways to earn or spend points that .....

This other article today looks at the new Aer Lingus AerClub programme in more detail. As this .....

6 Dec 20166 December 2016 by Rob Burgess • 19 comments

This is my review of the United Airlines MileagePlus credit cards issued in the UK. It is part of my series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether or not they .....

This is my review of the United Airlines MileagePlus credit cards issued in the UK. It is part of my series .....

10 Nov 201610 November 2016 by Rob Burgess • 4 comments