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I receive emails all the time regarding different offers from various companies promoting this or that. Well, they've built up and I didn't know what to do with them all (I couldn't even think of a good headline, suggestions in the comments please), so here is a rundown on some of the best offers I've been sent ranging from 45,000 bonus Virgin Points to free Disney dining, 25% off SAS reward flights, discounted Hilton points, and extra Nectar on your eBay shopping, enjoy! Ame

BA Holidays is running an Avios offer until 18 May: a 33% boost on the value of your Avios when used as part payment on a package. Or, framed the other way, you'll need 25% fewer Avios to get the same money off your holiday. Each of you may see slightly different offers in terms of value per Avios, but here's what I can see. Will your BA Holiday take you to the Maldives? How does this Avios bonus look We searched a 4-night economy trip to New York in January, which is one of

Virgin Red has launched a 30% bonus on Tesco Clubcard voucher exchanges, running from today until 30 June 2026. The bonus stacks on top of the standard 1 Clubcard point = 2 Virgin Points, meaning that 1,000 Clubcard points will come out as 2,600 Virgin Points instead of 2,000. But there's obviously a catch. Manual exchange only, and you've probably set them to auto-convert If you took advantage of the 5,000 Virgin Point sign-up bonus Virgin and Tesco ran a few times in the la

Amex's rules around who gets a welcome bonus aren't complicated. They're just a bit annoying. Income decides which cards you can apply for. The 24-month rule decides which welcome bonuses you'll actually receive. Our Amex eligibility checker handles both, for all nine UK personal Amex cards, in under a minute. How our Amex eligibility checker works Type in your personal income. Tell it whether you've held an Amex in the last 24 months. If you have, tick which ones, mark any s

Hello all of you, First off, today, myself and my two sisters, Bethan and Hannah, are running the Bristol Half Marathon today raising money for Pancreatic Cancer UK. Pancreatic cancer is one of deadliest forms of cancer as its usually only picked up once its too late to treat. This is exactly how it took the life of our Nana, Sue Pomeroy. Anything you can spare towards this worthy cause would be greatly appreciated. You can click here to donate towards Pancreatic Cancer UK. T

Your companion voucher is about to expire. You're not going to use it. Maybe life got in the way, maybe you couldn't find availability, maybe you just ran out of time. So can you extend it? Or give it to someone who will use it? Almost certainly not, and no. But there's more to it than that, so let's go through it properly. In this article: Can I extend my companion voucher? What qualifies for an extension? How do I apply for an extension? What if I don't qualify? Does the vo

If this sounds familiar, that is because we covered the same offer on the Amex Gold and Platinum a few weeks ago. Amex has now dished the bonus out to the British Airways American Express cards too, meaning until 30 June 2026, you can earn up to 10,000 bonus Avios just for adding your first supplementary card. What is a supplementary card? A supplementary card is an extra card issued on your existing Amex account for someone else to use, usually a partner or family member. Th

Virgin Atlantic has confirmed it won't be operating its seasonal Heathrow-Dubai route this coming winter. The 2025/26 season was already cut short on 7 March due to the conflict in the region, so this is two consecutive winters of cancellations. Heathrow-Seattle is also being paused for the winter, returning in March 2027. Instead they're giving both Heathrow-Cape Town and Heathrow-Johannesburg extra flights this winter. Affected customers should start hearing from Virgin soo

If you hold either of the British Airways American Express cards, there's a new competition in town. British Airways and American Express are continuing to mark 25 years of their partnership with an Avios competition. There's a 1,000,000 Avios top prize and a further 25 prizes of 100,000 Avios each up for grabs. 25 years of British Airways American Express cards These cards have been around longer than some of you, and to commemorate that, British Airways and American Express

Everyone has heard the queue horror stories that have been rolling out in the last few weeks, 90-minute waits, missed flights, chaos at the gates. So when I'd booked a long weekend to the Algarve in late March for a friend's hen-do, I was braced for the worst, and totally prepared to document it for you all to see. What I got was something a lot more mundane: a functioning border with a 10-minute wait on arrival and 15 minutes on departure. There was part of that was a teens

Some Avios routes on BA are gone within minutes of midnight. Others sit there for weeks. This is an attempt at a guide to telling them apart. BA releases reward seats at midnight GMT, 355 days before departure. The guaranteed allocation on day one is eight in economy, two in premium economy, four in business class. On some routes those four business class seats last weeks. On others they are gone before most people know the window has opened. Below I've split the main BA long

Hello all, Something a bit different this week as I've finally written the story of how I got into points. It doesn't involve a corporate Amex or a business class upgrade. It involves that photo of me aged 10, my parents, and a route into this hobby that I suspect quite a few of you will recognise. If you've been reading along and wondering who's actually behind this site, now you know. On the aviation side, BA is shuffling its A380s around and it's actually good news. Club S

We've been writing Points Well Made for over a year now and I haven't really told you much about myself. Perhaps it's time to fix that with explaining how I found myself in the points world, and how that led to us starting Points Well Made. There's a standard points-blog origin story. City job, corporate travel, expensive American Express. Mine doesn't really go like that. I don't work in London, and I don't travel for work. Also, my first American Express was a free one. So

If your tier dropped overnight, sorry. But plenty of you still have lounge access today that has nothing to do with status, mind. If you're flying in Club or First, your boarding pass does the job. And to the lucky few who requalified, well done. Either way, here's a handy tip for all of you. Did you know there's a live page that shows you how busy each BA lounge at T5 is in real time? Here's how busy the BA lounges are in T5 Here's the link, ba-uk-occupancy.livereachmedia.co

Iberia is running an Avios discount on reward flights, with savings of 10%, 20% or 30% depending on the route. You need to book by 10 May 2026 and travel has to be completed by 15 September 2026. The discount applies to the Avios cost only. Taxes and fees stay the same. Bookings must be made on the Iberia website. If you try and book through BA, you will see the standard price. All routes are to or from Madrid, meaning you will have to connect if travelling onwards. The trave

It's been a busy few weeks for card offers. Amex has refreshed both Gold and Platinum. The Marriott Bonvoy Amex is back at triple. Virgin Money has doubled both Virgin Atlantic cards. Hilton has refreshed both debit cards with a boosted bonus on the Plus. Five separate articles in three weeks felt like enough excuse to pull them into one place. Here's a quick rundown on the rewards cards with offers, with the full breakdowns linked if you want to look further into any of them

BA is shuffling its A380s around again, but overall this is a good thing as they're finally going for their refits! They've now filed a wave of schedule changes covering September 2026 through March 2027. If you were looking to use your Avios on one of the routes affected, here's what's changing. Club Suite finally arrives on the Johannesburg route. Los Angeles becomes a guaranteed Club Suite route. Singapore now cops the old Club World seat, but that isn't necessarily a bad

If you're flying out of Palma de Mallorca, the Sala VIP Mediterráneo in Module C is a nice reward for the trek down to this end of the airport. It's recently been refurbished, and it's now one of the better Sala VIP lounges I've been to in Spain. Where it is, and how to get there The lounge is in Module C, Level 0, between gates C52 and C68. After security, follow the signs for Module C past duty-free. Word of warning: Palma is not a small airport. Budget at least fifteen min

Morning all, Well, BA had one to forget. Thousands of members woke up earlier this week to find their status had been extended for another year, and that's despite not having re-qualified. Cue celebration, confusion, and then the inevitable U-turn: BA has confirmed it was a technical error. If you got the email and you're wondering what happens next, or if you missed out by a whisker and you're rightfully fuming, we've covered both the original story and the backtrack. On the

British Airways has now confirmed what many suspected. The recent wave of surprise BA Club status renewals was, in fact, an error. British Airways confirms status extension error Earlier this week, thousands of BA Club members discovered that their Silver or Gold status had been extended through to 30 April 2027, despite not having re-qualified. Some had earned few, if any, tier points over the past year. Others who had come frustratingly close to the threshold received nothi