British Airways is offering a free upgrade from Business Class to First Class. It’s not what we’d normally think of in terms of an “upgrade”. For that, you’d normally buy a cheaper ticket and afterwards be rewarded with the upgrade. The current offer is in reality a lower price for first class at the point […]
read more »You can now use Avios to reduce the cost of a flight booking but is this a good value? Discount £10 Costs 1,500 Avios Discount £20 Costs 3,000 Avios Discount £30 Costs 4,500 Avios BA has recently increased the offer so that On longer European routes, if you are booking two or more travellers, you […]
read more »Avis is offering 20% off their normal rates for cars rented up to Friday 12th December 2014 Bookings can be made up to and including Monday 29th September The Avis website looks slick but can be difficult to use. If you click-through from a cashback site or if you just search from their main page […]
read more »One major drawback of booking flights online rather than via a travel agent has been the necessity to book and pay at the same time, all in one transaction. If only one seat is left, you’d have no alternative but to book it immediately. And many low fares are not refundable so you’d lose out […]
read more »We are increasingly asked about flights to China and specifically, Air China flights so we have researched the entire UK travel market for Air China Discount air fares and we’re surprised that nobody offers a discount below the Air China website direct price. We were looking at London – Beijing – London, Sunday out and […]
read more »What is a British Airways Companion Voucher? Companion vouchers are earned by the traveller by meeting minimum spend targets on Amex credit cards The companion voucher is accessible online as an e-voucher via the travellers BA executive club account. So you’ll need the exec number and password. When you log-in you’ll see the companion voucher […]
read more »The British Airways On Business reward scheme is a generous programme of rewards for bookings made by small to medium sized companies. Points are earned for British Airways flights and can be spent on flights, upgrades and … Marriott hotels Marriott hotel rewards have been available for on business points in the form of prepaid […]
read more »Finding flights can be relatively quick and easy compared to the task of narrowing down a choice of hotel. Hotel search includes so many variables: Category Star Rating Amenities Location Price and of course, Availability! I suggest using the following tools, also featured on the Booking Business Travel hotels page: For Category, Star rating, Amenity, […]
read more »To assist you with your hotel reservations, we have added Hyatt to our recommendation of “go direct” hotels. This is because the company is consistently undercutting the online and offline agents. We just found the Andaz in Liverpool Street at £318 direct whilst Booking.com charged £354 and a travel agent (TMC) charged £390 Our suggested […]
read more »Up until today, you could only redeem Avios by buying an Avios Ticket. You had to search for a flight with Avios availability. And if you were lucky enough to find the date and time that you wanted, you could then choose to pay more – and use less Avios. If you could not find […]
read more »This brilliant and concise article by the British Airports Authority explains the impact of fog on Heathrow’s operations. It answers the commonly asked questions such as: Why does fog cause delays (with all our technology)? Why can other airports cope when Heathrow cannot? Why cancel flights in advance? Who cancels flights? After reading this, I […]
read more »Anyone having tried to book flights on Ryanair will know how painful the process is! And the boss of Ryanair Michael O’leary has admitted that, “We have got to stop making it so difficult” Initially, the airline makes you type or guess what the code is before you can even get a quote. This is […]
read more »You’ve accrued tens of thousands of Avios but can’t spend them? You never see seats on flight dates that you want to travel on? We’ve found a solution. British Airways only offer reward tickets in a very restricted booking class (U class for business and X class for economy). Very few seats are allocated to […]
read more »You need a hotel for your traveller. He knows the one he wants. He doesn’t accept no for an answer, but the hotel is full. Their website says no availability. You phone the hotel reservations directly and are told no – sorry – we’re very fully booked. One search on our Hotel Search Engine and you can […]
read more »I’ve recently heard of two instances where travellers have ended up paying nearly double the original price, en-route, because of a misunderstanding of how airline tickets work. As business travellers change plans so often it’s really important that you read this so that these scenarios will never happen to you – or your travellers! Scenario […]
read more »If you are a frequent traveller, you’ll probably belong to several loyalty schemes, both airline and hotel. And you may also collect shopping points such as Nectar, or Tesco Clubcard and perhaps Shell petrol etc Awardwallet.com provides an online facility to file all your various memberships and check them automatically in one place. An excellent […]
read more »So you’re going on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Australia, out to Melbourne and back from Sydney and you chose Etihad via Abu Dhabi. Now you’re wondering if it’s worth signing up to the Etihad Frequent Traveller scheme? Will I earn enough points from just one Etihad trip to be able spend on anything? According to […]
read more »If you are considering a one-off Eurostar trip then my answer is most definitely no. In fact, the registration to the Eurostar scheme can only be arranged after you have made a “qualifying journey” with a minimum ticket price of £250 If you’re likely to travel in premium class several times a year, then read […]
read more »For some time I’ve been emailing Skyscanner to say that they are missing out on a valuable service by not including business class prices. Quietly and without fanfare, Skyscanner now includes Premium Economy, Business Class and First Class flight comparisons. After doing the initial search on our Flight Search page, you have the option to […]
read more »Airlines that offer a Premium Economy Class are: British Airways Virgin Cathay Pacific British Airways no longer fly direct from Singapore to Melbourne. Instead, they code-share using Qantas Aircraft and Qantas do not have a Premium Economy cabin. Virgin do not operate the aircraft to Melbourne, instead they code-share with Singapore Airlines who do not […]
read more »I’ve been told of difficulties when trying to complete a Ryanair booking and the reason appears to be the browser – namely Google Chrome. It is annoying that you can select the flights, refuse all those extras and hard-sell options only to have the final payment stage rejected! So you may want to search via […]
read more »Back in 2011 I blogged about Google’s purchase of ITA, a company that develops flight and price search technology. Since that time, Google made the search engine available in the US and it has only featured domestic US flights. Google has been very slow to (at least publicly) do anything with the purchase, despite a […]
read more »Within a week of KLM announcing that customers are to be given “more choice”, by charging separately for check-in bags, British Airways launches “hand baggage only” fares. This is a different way of introducing a charge for baggage. It’s promoted as a saving, because hand baggage only fare is lower than their normal price by […]
read more »How to avoid KLM new baggage fees The airline has just announced, as an enhancement, “providing more choice to passengers”, “the option to travel with just carry-on baggage or to check in baggage at a fee” This applies to KLM European flights from 22nd April 2013 Of course, passengers have always had the choice! It’s […]
read more »Our recommended search engine has today been featured by the BBC due to the phenomenal growth of the company. Skyscanner, a company based in Edinburgh, receives 30 million visitors per month and the search engine facilitates £2.3 billion annual air travel. But, our reason for hosting Skyscanner is that for booking and researching business travel, […]
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