Travel Tips

On our recent flights from London to Beijing, we used AVIOS for First Class reward tickets and were keen to trial the British Airways Concorde Room perks. This post shares our experience of the lounge, but I must confess I don’t have a lot of First Class lounge experience with …

Whenever I speak to anyone about how I fly first or business class using airmiles, a look of defeat crosses their face. ‘Well, I don’t fly regularly so that won’t work for me’, is the usual response. Let me let you into a little secret. More than 90% of my …

Until recently I’ve been content to fly Club Class using my AVIOS. However, I’ve recently been accumulating them so quickly that I decided to upgrade to British Airways First Class to fly to Beijing. I will be honest, I wasn’t sure whether it would be worth it. I couldn’t imagine …

Goodbye Miles and More credit card Last week, yet another airline reward credit card crashed and burned. The Miles and More credit card closed its doors to existing clients on the 28th July. Existing cardholders will become holders of the Horizon MBNA credit card instead, which offers the following benefits: …

Lately, a number of people have asked me about an upgrade to the British Airways Premium Credit Card from the British Airways standard card. There’s several reasons why this is not a good idea but I’m going to give you the pros and cons of each option in today’s post …