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 »At least the booking process is to be easier. The number of clicks required to make a reservation has been reduced from approx 17 to around 5! The recaptcha code requirement is to be scrapped for individual bookings and a 24-hour grace period to allow you to fix minor errors in bookings is to be […]
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 »A sale has been announced from British Airways and it is so interesting, I’m tempted to take advantage of it myself! But you have less than 2 weeks to book and seats are likely to sell fast. You may not normally consider booking club world at £500 or £600 for a 2 hour European flight, […]
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 »Eurostar is offering fares of £59 return in Standard Class and £159 return in Standard Premier to Paris, Lille, Calais, Brussels and any Belgium station! 20,000 seats are being made available to Paris and another 20,000 to Brussels The sale begins today and must be booked on or before Monday 16th September Travel is for […]
read more »The airline has announced a sale for bookings made up to Tuesday 24 September Reduced prices appear to be offered for practically all destinations, in economy and business class. Europe Fares are quoted one-way and are very interesting, for example: Alicante & Barcelona from £39 Helsinki from £86 (When choosing a return availability I found […]
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 »Emirates Airline is offering bonus miles – but only on less popular flights. For example, from Heathrow to Dubai the bonus applies to the day flight departing 08:40 and arriving 18:45, or the 17:00 departure arriving Dubai at 02:50 The bonus is 1,000 miles per flight for economy class, 2,000 miles for business and 3,000 […]
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 »Emirates now have 5 daily A380 aircraft flying to Dubai and an onward worldwide network. To fill these planes, they offer very competitive fares worldwide. However, when looking for seats, sometimes there may not be a suitable connection in Dubai. The minimum connection time in Dubai between Emirates flights is just 1 hour and 15 […]
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 »Again this month we have researched Discounted Stansted Express Train Fares. A standard fare, London Liverpool Street to Stansted is now £23.40 single and £32.80 return Tottenham Hale Station (good for the Victoria tube line) is slightly cheaper at £21.00 single and £30.50 return. If you use the referral link from easyJet here, you’ll be […]
read more »Each month we search for discounts on the Heathrow Express Trains. There have been many different sources for discounts over the years but they come and go. So we check every one and update you here – saving you the effort. The normal fare direct from heathrowexpress.com is £20 single and £34 return. Make the […]
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 »British Airways and American airlines are offering double reward Avios points for return bookings and travel before 30th April 2013 But the offer only applies to “premium classes” i.e. First and Business Class. And the double points only apply to the higher fare types, for example, with British Airways, in F, A, J, C, D […]
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 […]
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