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British Airways has moved a big chunk of its Middle East schedule around again over the past few days, and I know a number of you were trying to target Dubai with your Avios this winter, so sorry in advance for being the bearer of bad news if you haven't heard already. Because BA keeps setting dates and then changing them, treat this as where things stand today rather than gospel. Dubai is still coming back from 25 October, but as once a day instead of three flights a day. Th

You'll all know the pain that is finding reward flights. Multiple tabs open at once, fighting airline systems that insist on logging you out every five minutes (I'm looking at you Virgin Atlantic, Qatar Airways etc). This, in part, is why we created our Avios calculator, because nowhere else online allows you to directly compare the Avios pricing among all the Avios airlines, and we felt like that was important. Meanwhile, for a user friendly experience that allows you to act

If you missed it last week, Qatar Airways is currently throwing the kitchen sink at you, with up to 24,000 bonus Avios on flights to Australia, buy Avios sales, and now Qatar Airways are offering you up to 10% off your fare and double Avios on top. I wonder why... Who it's for Two groups of people qualify for this deal, and neither can have an active Qatar booking. They are: Privilege Club members with no collecting or spending activity in the last 24 months Privilege Club me

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another news you may have missed. A slightly calmer week on the news front, however Sam and I did spend two fantastic days at this year's Farnborough International Airshow on Monday and Tuesday as Press. I went to the Airline Leasers Summit (part of the Aerospace Global Forum) whilst Sam got to enjoy a Boeing 777X interior reveal event. We were also some of the first media in the world to see inside United Airlines' brand new Airbus A321XLR

Earlier in the month, Amex added ALL Accor as a transfer partner allowing you to move and spend your Membership Reward points on hotels with the Accor group. Building on that initial partnership, Accor Gold membership has now been added as a feature for Amex Platinum cardholders. That takes you from four free hotel statuses to five, and it gave us a reason to do something we'd been meaning to anyway: go back through the whole list! So if you're holding the Amex Platinum, here

Another week, another cut to your benefits. In December, we lost a chunk of value in the Avios devaluation. In May they raised the taxes and fees for reward flights. Then Friday last week, Amex confirmed it's cutting the earn rate on the Premium Plus card and scrapping the triple Avios on British Airways spend. Now the British Airways American Express Accelerating Business Card is getting an even more brutal cut. Everything below takes effect on 7 October 2026, the same day a

If Australia has been sitting on your travel list, Qatar Airways has just given you up to 24,000 reasons to move it up. If you book a flight between Doha and Australia during the promo window below, you'll get up to 24,000 bonus Avios on top of whatever you'd normally earn. It's a short booking window, so worth acting on quickly if the numbers work for you, but you have quite a while before you have to have completed your flight. So if this is the winter (or summer in Austral

Welcome back to another Sunday round up, and goodness what a week it has been. Half of our planned articles were shelved because there was just far too much going on. There is a plan in the near future to move to multi-posting if you were wondering, but not quite yet. First up in the week we had a wonderful guest writer Neil (otherwise known of ManofMilesUK) who wrote us a great article all about whether solo travellers have an advantage in the points and miles world. Huge th

Well, they've said something. IAG Loyalty (AKA Avios) put a statement up on the 25th Anniversary Flight landing page on 16th July. It's short, but crucially, unlike a lot of corporate apologies, it does actually say sorry. Twice. Let's have a look. The statement in full "We know customers experienced technical issues accessing the booking page for our 25th Anniversary Celebration Flight with our partner, American Express. We're truly sorry for the frustration and disappointme

Amex has confirmed it's cutting the Avios earn rate on the British Airways Premium Plus Amex, and if you hold this card, the notification is either already in your inbox or about to be. From 7th October 2026, the card drops from 1.5 Avios per £1 to 1.25 Avios per £1. The old perk of triple Avios (3 per £1) on BA and BA Holidays spend is gone too, that spend now earns the same flat 1.25 Avios per £1 as everything else. BA Premium Plus Amex vs the free BA Amex: what's the real