Flights

I recently got chatting to a work colleague about the AMEX Platinum Cashback Card. Our conversation considered whether it made sense to keep the cashback card or change it for an American Express Gold card or British Airways American Express card if you happen to love collecting airmiles. Let’s take …

I recently booked our first Virgin Atlantic Reward flights and I was keen to see how the experience compared with booking a British Airways reward flight. Fortunately, we have booked to go to Shanghai with our friends Michala and John but they only have AVIOS to redeem. I therefore booked …

This post is inspired by a question I received from a reader recently. She was questioning whether she could use her AMEX companion voucher to redeem AVIOS for business class reward flights as she was struggling to find availability. I have covered redemptions before but thought it might be worth …

Franjo Tuđman” International Airport The new terminal of Zagreb airport opened in March 2017 and compared to Uk airports is relatively quiet. There are just 60 flight departures on the day we travel. These flights are mainly to the neighbouring Baltic countries and western Europe. Although the capacity of the …

We manoeuvre our kayaks from the choppy waters of the island’s rocky coastline into a dark hole hewn from the cliff face. The channel narrows and there is barely enough space to paddle. We pull ourselves along the rocks and through a tiny gap, marginally wider than our kayaks. It …