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If you're a British Airways Club member (you're here, so let's assume that), here's a quick win worth adding to your Avios-earning routine this month. Register a new debit or credit card on the Avios website for in-store purchase, spend £15 or more in one transaction at a participating in-store partner, and you'll bank 250 bonus Avios on top of whatever you'd normally earn. Registering your card had been paused between March 11th and April 15th, but in this period all Masterc

Watch out, American Express, there's a new kid on the block. Revolut has just thrown its hat into the airport-lounge-ring as it were, and it's doing it in typically bold fashion. The bank is calling the project "Revolut Lounge": a network of its own branded, premium airport lounges, kicking off at Copenhagen Airport in 2027. The plan, by the sounds of it, is for the Copenhagen lounge to become the biggest shared-access lounge anywhere in the Schengen zone, and it's working wi

355 days in advance is BA's booking window, but this isn't an Avios rule. Seven airlines now use Avios (being BA, Qatar, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Finnair, Loganair, and Vueling), but each opens bookings on its own schedule, with a few opening earlier than BA's window. This isn't a trick for getting BA seats early. BA opens at 355 days, and that's that. It's that Qatar, Finnair and Iberia start selling their own seats before BA's window even opens. Here's what you need to know. The

Membership Rewards points are the backbone of the American Express loyalty ecosystem, and for travellers willing to learn how they work, they can unlock business class seats, five-star hotel nights and round-the-world itineraries that would otherwise cost thousands of pounds. This UK guide for Membership Reward Points covers everything you need to know, what the programme is, which UK cards earn points, how the free rewards card, Platinum and Gold cards compare, and every tra

We bring you the sexy first class cabins, but also the practical value. Well, this definitely falls under the practical value banner. Avios lets you turn your points into Pizza Express vouchers, normally at a rate of 1,000 Avios for £5, which is not good value. But until 31 August it's double, so 1,000 Avios gets you £10, and you can order up to £250 worth in total per day, if you're feeling hungry. That's 1p per Avios, which is the number we use for a fairly priced redempti

Virgin Red and Tesco Clubcard have restarted the 30% bonus on voucher exchanges. It runs from today until 23:59 on 23 September 2026, and it works exactly as it did before. The bonus sits on top of the standard 1 Clubcard point = 2 Virgin Points, so 1,000 Clubcard points come out as 2,600 Virgin Points instead of the usual 2,000. Manual and auto exchange are two different things Tesco gives you two ways to turn Clubcard vouchers into Virgin Points. Auto-exchange is the set an

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another Sunday post, and another "news you may have missed this week". First up, and the most momentous of the news, has to be Avios updating their free calendar search tool for finding rewards flights. Not only is it actually a really good tool, but they have also added in the ability to search Aer Lingus and Iberia, as well as extra availability for if you have a BA Premium Plus Amex Companion Vouchers. This was a soft launch from them, b

Today’s post is a little bit different - we’re stepping away from flight reviews and points earning credit cards to bring you something more personal. I am Helena, one of the co-founders of Points Well Made, other half to Sam, passionate traveller, and all-round adventure seeker. I've always loved travel, but since meeting Sam I consider myself thoroughly infected with the travel bug. We have been on many adventures since meeting, all over the globe. I thought we'd do a quick

Did you know that some hotel groups give you a free night on points stay? I apologise for never having spoken about this sooner. Marriott and Hilton are both selling points at a discount at the moment, which is what prompted me to write this. And it just so happens that they are the two groups where the free night is easiest to get hold of. So let's briefly explain this for you, as this is one of the main reasons to collect hotel points. The St Regis Maldives, anyone? Which

If you have any Avios, which I think the vast majority of you do, you're probably going to want to read this. Qatar Airways has rolled out a new up to 25% off monthly discount scheme on Avios redemptions. This is different to our usual coverage which is usually around Qatar sales to do with purchasing Avios. The first round of deals has already gone live, so here is everything you need to know about this Qatar Airways Avios sale before this booking window closes. What exactly

Stay with me on this one, because it'll be worth it. Kenya Airways have a long-standing status match programme where you can show them your status with another airline/hotel, pay a fee, and they'll give you an equivalent status with themselves. What's changed is that they have temporarily boosted the match you will get from Accor Gold, Platinum, and Diamond to Asante Rewards Platinum Elite Plus (side note, I love this name. It's named as if David Brent was tasked with naming

Let us be the first in the points and miles space to say it: well done, Avios. Avios has been updating something behind the scenes that's been missing from its toolkit for years, something so overdue that third-party tools had to build it for us all first. Without so much as a press release, at the time of publishing, Avios has rolled out a much-improved calendar that allows you to search for reward seats, with additional Companion Voucher availability built in (even if you h

Today's post has been kindly written by Heather Shipley, on Instagram as @heather_shipley_, where you can follow her pursuits to give her family the best life possible thanks to points. Naturally, that is what she'd like to tell you all about today! If you would like to put yourself in front our audience and wish to guest write, just simply DM us on Instagram or email sam@pointswellmade.co.uk with an idea, and we will try and make it work! Let’s set the scene. We are a workin

Hey, hey hey! Welcome back to another news you may have missed. This week has seen another offer from Qatar Airways on top of their Australia one. British Airways has rejigged it's Middle East flights once again, so if you are headed there soon with them, do check this out. We've also produced a handy list of shows which you can utilise your Virgin Points on at the O2 should you wish to. Naturally my recommendation is of course Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring wi

There is a piece of advice that I really feel like I need to give you, and it's one of the most important things you can do to protect the value of everything you earn. It is this: do not transfer your Amex Membership Rewards points to an airline or hotel programme until you are ready to book something specific. But because it runs counter to the instinct most people have, which is to "lock in" their points somewhere familiar as soon as possible, it is worth explaining exactl

American Express is giving £300 back when you spend £700 or more online at United Airlines, not on United Airlines (more on that below), on bookings made by 23 October 2026, for a ticket departing from a UK airport. This is an exceptionally strong offer, effectively giving you at most 43% off your ticket! I know what some of you are saying, and yes, we have seen this offer before at £350 back on a £700 spend, but I wouldn't be turning this current offer down. If you have not

There's been a bit of a Virgin Red Room focus for us right now, but this will be the last for a while, I promise! There are 57 shows bookable right now at the Virgin Red Room using your Virgin Points, from August 2026 through to April 2027, and we thought we'd put them down for you all in price order. So here they all are, cheapest first, starting from only 10,000 Virgin Points. What the Virgin Red Room is The Virgin Red Room is a private box inside The O2, positioned central

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