All of the advice so far has been on the basis of two people travelling together. Working as a couple, you can maximise the referral bonuses, make use of the 2for1 voucher and pool your Avios in a Household Account. You are also more likely to spend more on household bills if there is more… Read More Part six: Flying solo
If you have followed parts 1-4, you should be sitting on a pretty impressive pile of miles from credit card sign up bonuses and spend, shopping and flying more ‘efficiently’ (in terms of mile accumulation). But how best to redeem them? There are three main ways that I have used; Reward Flight Savers, Redemptions and… Read More Part five: Flying on miles
In parts one and two, I discussed how credit card sign up bonuses can help to bolster your Avios balance. In this post, I am going to look at the two other ways I get my Avios from Tesco and topcashback. One Tesco clubcard point is awarded for each pound spent and they convert in… Read More Part three: Shopping to fly
So, if you were to have followed the advice in the previous post, you would have found yourself in possession of 57,000 American Express Membership Rewards points, which are worth 57,000 Avios, and not have spent any additional money. If you want to go further, and experience more luxurious travel, the best next step is… Read More Part two: Taking the next step with credit cards
This post was originally published in 2016 and refreshed first in 2019. It is up to date as of January 2022 I love travel, and when I can’t travel I love to talk about it – so you can be sure that I was delighted when a colleague wanted to know more about the miles… Read More Part one: Dipping your toes in
I have recently been trying to plan a school trip to New York. As a geography teacher, I firmly believe in the positive benefits of a field trip and how travel can broaden peoples’ mind sets. Sadly it was not possible to make it happen this time, but I am hoping that a trip closer… Read More Could booking as a group save you money?
Currently sitting in the Concorde Room thanks to the inbound leg in First and a connection up to Edinburgh having had a very pleasant flight from Rio. Best sleep on an airplane I’ve ever had! Sadly no photos from the front of the plane. It was a full 14 passenger’s complement this time. We took… Read More GUEST POST: MummyAirmiles is back on UK Soil
MummyAirmiles arrived into Rio following her transfer across South America. Got off the TAM flight and those of us trying to change terminals were herded onto a bus to Terminal 1 before the four of us for the BA flight were ushered through to departures. So we ended up departures not having any boarding passes, although… Read More GUEST POST: MummyAirmiles loathes lounge
The other day I wrote about how PayQwiq can help you in collecting Tesco Clubcard points is an easy way to get Avios which you can use to pay for your flights; topcashback is a way to earn more Clubcard points to make this happen faster. Like any shopping portal, you log into http://www.topcashback.com and… Read More Topcashback – a fast way to cheap flights
Air Passenger Duty (APD) is a tax levied on fliers departing airports in the UK. It started off, when first introduced, at £5 short haul an £10 long haul; now it can add up to £146 to the cost of a ticket. An announcement yesterday by the Scottish Government said that there were plans to… Read More Understanding (and reducing) APD costs
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