IHG Rewards Club has announced the latest category changes for its hotels. The changes are quite extensive (impacting hundreds of hotels) and overwhelmingly negative, unless you have a lot of travel planned… Continue Reading

Avios.com have announced that you will soon no longer be able to redeem Avios on Monarch, Aurigny or Air Malta. ” From 4 January 2017, it will no longer be possible to spend your Avios on Monarch… Continue Reading

Hilton HHonors has announced the latest changes to its award categories, and it’s basically good news with very few changes. You can check out the full list of Hilton HHonors Award Category Changes… Continue Reading

IHG Rewards Club (the main loyalty programme for Intercontinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn etc), has just announced some “improvements” (honest subtitles: “reducing member benefits”)… Continue Reading

TopCashback has long been one of our favourite methods of getting discounted travel via cashback, and cheap Avios. It also occasionally offers deals which appear a little bit too good to be true, in that… Continue Reading

I love Avios sweetspots (good value redemptions), and am pleased to share a few new ones I came across recently. They’re not hugely exciting, but could be very useful in the right circumstances… Continue Reading

We recently flagged a novel new way to earn Avios at certain UK “offline” retailers via the new Bink app. It seems that Avios has now added to your offline-earning options. Simply register… Continue Reading

You may vaguely remember reading a little while ago that Alaska Airlines are taking over Virgin America. Not hugely fascinating to your average Brit perhaps, but some of us interested in ‘travel… Continue Reading

I love reading the Economist and generally read it from cover to cover every week. I suspect that there is a high level of overlap between frequent flyers and readers of the Economist. But for many years… Continue Reading