The Travel Brief, your weekly business travel and loyalty round-up - 17th March
Rob Burgess
Editor, Head for Points, the UK's biggest frequent flyer and business travel website with 2.6m monthly page views
Welcome to The Travel Brief, your weekly trade round-up of UK business travel and travel loyalty news as well as the latest reviews and features from the Head for Points team.
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The latest UK business travel news:
Norwegian adds London to Billund flights as SUN-AIR appears to pull its BA franchised route
Stories we recommend from other sites:
Agreement reached for Courtyard by Marriott hotel at Newquay Airport (Business Traveller)
Virgin Atlantic plans electric air taxi service (Travel Weekly)
New trackside hotel opens at Silverstone (Boutique Hotelier)
Airlines update lithium battery policies after Air Busan fire (Simple Flying)
Radisson to open hotel at new Oxford United FC stadium (Business Traveller)
Our latest reviews:
Our reviews section will return next week
The latest UK travel loyalty news:
We need your help: have you tried using two frequent flyer numbers on the same booking? How did it go?
New: get 80,000 points (converts to 80,000 Avios) with Amex Platinum - as well as the Amex Gold offer below, there is a great Amex Platinum deal too
NEW: Get a 30,000 points bonus (converts to 30,000 Avios) with ‘free for a year’ Amex Gold
American Express has brought back a special sign-up bonus on American Express Preferred Rewards Gold – apply here.
Remember that this card is free for your first year!
The bonus is increased from 20,000 to 30,000 Membership Rewards points which converts to:
….. and many other non-travel rewards.
You receive 30,000 Membership Rewards points after spending ￡3,000 in three months.
Even better, you get:
The card is free for the first year. If you keep it beyond the first year there is an annual fee of ￡195. You receive a further four airport lounge passes and more Deliveroo credits on renewal.
Our main article on the 30,000 points bonus is here. Make sure you read the bit about whether or not you qualify for the bonus.
You can apply for American Express Preferred Rewards Gold with the special bonus on this page of the Amex website.
Head for Points receives a commission if you apply via our links - thank you.
Thank you for reading
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Rob, Rhys, Sinead and Katie @ Head for Points
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