The Travel Brief, your weekly business travel and loyalty round-up - 27th August
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?links to the latest reviews and features from headforpoints.com.
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This issue is a day late due to the public holiday in the UK on Monday.
The latest UK business travel news:
Hyatt is to buy The Standard chain of hotels, including London above
Qatar Airways invests in South African airline Airlink with Avios redemptions to follow
Oman Air drops First Class and turns it into a 'Business Plus' cabin
Book Oslo to Nairobi for ￡745 return in Business Class in the Lufthansa 2-4-1 sale - many other great deals also available
Graduate Cambridge hotel is now bookable on Hilton.com - old timers may remember that this was originally a DoubleTree by Hilton
Stories we recommend from other sites:
First look: Premier Inn unveils Next Evolution Style rooms (Business Traveller)
Virgin Voyages’ newest ship arrives for first UK season (Travel Weekly)
Manchester Airport opens The Sculpts shop, with Pasta Evangelists to follow (Business Traveller)
Our latest reviews:
(P)review: 25 Hours Hotel Copenhagen Paper Island, part of Accor Live Limitless - Conny visits a hotel BEFORE it opens to the public, in the first pre-opening review we have ever done. How did it turn out? Image above.
Take a look inside the recently refurbished Aspire Lounge at Belfast City Airport, reviewed by Rob. Aspire is on a very good run at the moment.
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The latest UK travel loyalty news:
Here are the benefits of the reworked HSBC Premier World Elite Mastercard - is it worth the increased ￡290 fee?
What are Accor Live Limitless points worth? We are updating our valuation series this week.
Will the Tesco credit card disqualify you from the Barclaycard Avios bonuses? Barclaycard is buying Tesco Bank in November.
Sponsored feature:
ENDS TODAY (TUESDAY): Get 40,000 points (converts to 40,000 Avios) PLUS ￡400 of travel credit with American Express Platinum!
American Express is running an exceptional deal on The Platinum Card - apply here.
You will receive ￡400 to spend at American Express Travel on top of the standard bonus of 40,000 Membership Rewards points - but only until tonight, Tuesday.
40,000 Membership Rewards points convert to:
….. and many other non-travel rewards.
You receive your ￡400 Amex Travel credit and 40,000 points after spending ￡6,000 in three months.
Whilst the annual fee is ￡650, this is currently refundable pro-rata if you cancel. Amex is planning to end pro-rata refunds in 'late' 2024 but we don't know exactly when.
Our main article on the '￡400 + 40,000 points' bonus is here. Make sure you read the bit about whether or not you qualify for the bonus.
Don't forget the other benefits of The Platinum Card:
.... and much more.
You can apply for The Platinum Card with the special bonus on this page of the Amex website.
You must apply by Tuesday.
Head for Points receives a commission if you apply via our link - thank you.
Thank you for reading
Please drop me a note at [email protected] with any feedback. See you next Monday.
Rob, Rhys and Katie @ Head for Points
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