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Is British Airways’ Best Rate Guarantee worth a look?
If you are not familiar with the term, Best Rate Guarantee, or usually referred to as BRG, is a special service that hotel groups and airlines (as well as many other businesses) offer to entice customers to book direct instead of via third-party channels. If you find a lower price elsewhere, they will match it and sometimes provide more incentives.
NOW OFFICIAL: You can request Avios refund instead of cash for cancellations
A lot of airlines have been facing tough cash-flow problems since the start of Covid-19, especially when it comes to cancelled flights and ticket refunds. And many of them have been very “creative” to avoid refunding cash to customers.
(more…)Flying Blue double miles / XP promotion – Skyteam Elite in one return
We spoke about Finnair’s double points promotion last week. Interestingly, Flying Blue – the loyalty programme of Air France and KLM – has just launched a promotion which is almost identical.
Best ways to use your Etihad Guest miles
Not belonging to any airline alliance, Etihad Guest is not a frequent flyer programme that many people know about. However, it does have many partners, and I credited my Philippines Airlines tickets to it last year (as I had no other choice, obviously…), so let me talk you through the highlights of their redemption opportunities today.
Finnair double points promotion – Oneworld Ruby after one economy return
We talked about Iberia’s ludicrous promotion recently, where you could get Oneworld elite status in just a few flights. It turns out that Finnair thinks that a good idea too!
TAP Portugal’s response to your status match request is REALLY fast
We posted about the return of TAP’s status match programme yesterday (probably the first in the entire blogger network!). A reader has already submitted his application and got some positive feedback!
(more…)TAP Portugal re-opens their status match programme – get your Star Alliance Gold today!
To give you some context, TAP Portugal ran a status match promotion back in March, for which you could match *A Gold or Silver status to your Skyteam or Oneworld cards. The promotion has just re-opened, so don’t miss it this time if you didn’t join the party!
(more…)An Introduction to Air France and KLM’s Flying Blue programme
Just like British Airways and Lufthansa in their respective alliance, Air France / KLM is of equal importance in Skyteam. Today we’ll give an overview of their Flying Blue programme.