Sam Eastwood

🚨 Route News Alert!

✈️ Virgin Atlantic launches Heathrow-Phuket from Oct 2026 - 3x weekly on 787-9
✈️ @americanair.bsky.social returns to Edinburgh-JFK from March, flying daily using their brand new A321XLR

Both routes go on sale early November 2025 🎟️

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🚨 Our 40 page FREE Avios Guide is finally here! 🚨

Nearly 40 pages of insider secrets that could save you thousands on flights ✈️
This isn't another basic points guide. This is the guide we wished we had when we started our points collecting journey.

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A/C broken on the ground on this @flyswiss.bsky.social flight, plus the worst boarding process I've ever experienced... I have thoughts...

An unfortunate true story!

You’re doing breakdown cover ALL wrong… and it’s costing you free flights! (And yes, this really did happen to us…)

You could be earning THOUSANDS of Avios just for protecting your car.

All the how's and why's down below 👇

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Flight 6/6 of my 72 hour, points odyssey, let's go home! Flying Virgin Atlantic Upper Class, looking forward to this one

Unlike any other lounge in the world, incredible

Al Safwa, Doha

Flight 4/6 ATH - DOH, there are maybe 40 people in economy for this flight, but it looks like I've been Qatared for flight no5

Do views get better than this? The Cathay Pacific lounge at Heathrow could be the best here

Six Flights, 72 Hours, Booked With Points, Here's How... Six flights, over 72 hours. Starting this afternoon, that's what I've got coming up, all in the name of bringing you fine people the content you desire. Plus, I booked it all using Avios or Virgin Po...

6 flights. 72 Hours. All on points. 😮‍💨

BA Club Europe ✈️ Air France Biz ✈️ Qatar First ✈️ Virgin Upper Class… all booked with Avios or Virgin Points.

Follow along on our Instagram for lounge reviews, cabin pics + travel hacks👇

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Buy Sausages, Get Avios? Helpful Virgin Seat Tool - vseats.io, British Airways Holiday Sale - News You May Have Missed Helpful Tool to Find Virgin Reward Seats - vseats.iovseat.io is a helpful new, free-to-use tool, which has been created to help find the cheapest rewards seats on Virgin Atlantic. Whilst I have advoca...

🥓 Buy sausages, win Avios?! Yup – scan Jolly Hog at Sainsbury’s + link Nectar to BA for a shot at 100k points.
🔥 vseats = a free new tool to find Virgin Atlantic seats fast
💸 BA Holiday Sale = up to £300 off when you book by 19 June

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Sublime

How We Earned 770 Points in One Evening, and saved ourselves £200: A Reward-Lovers Night at the Theatre In just one evening, we racked up 626 Virgin Red Points and 144 American Express Membership Rewards Points, all while enjoying dinner and a show in London’s West End. Let’s walk through how we turn...

Want to save hundreds of pounds and stack hundreds of points? 💷✨

We hit the West End for Book of Mormon and walked away with 626 @VirginAtlantic Points + 144 @AmexUK Points + saved £200 all while having an epic night out 🍣🎭🍸

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Lake Maharlu, Iran

We flew over last month on our way back to London onboard an Emirates A380. Not what you expect to see out of the window, a somewhat haunting experience

#travel #points #Milesandpoints #pointsandmiles #TravelHacks #pointswellmade #Emirates #A380

Emirates A380 Economy Review - Dubai to Gatwick - EK9 This flight was part two of our journey back from Singapore to London, having found a bargain fare of only £297 each one way, we decided to fly with Emirates. Find our part one review of that flight h...

Emirates A380 Economy – £297 one-way from Singapore. Big plane. Big vibes. Big views.

🎬 IFE: crashed twice
🍫 Food: sugar coma achieved
🧳 615 passengers = overhead bin hunger games
👶 Kids got Polaroids. We got profiteroles. Fair.

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Thursday Travel Tips: Things You Didn’t Know - Earn Avios In-Store by Registering Your Cards This week, we’re staying closer to home and focusing on something that can make a huge difference to your points balance: registering your credit or debit cards with the Avios store to earn points whe...

Thursday travel hack: You could be earning FREE Avios just by shopping like normal. No apps, no hassle, just register your card once and earn points on every swipe.

Wine? Avios. Boots run? Avios. Brunch? Yep. Avios.

Full how-to 👇

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Awful news about #AI171, horrible pit in my stomach hearing, and then seeing the news

10 Surprising Ways to Earn Avios (That You’re Probably Missing!) If you're a regular traveller or have been reading our website (points go to you), you've likely heard of Avios, the rewards currency that can help you save on flights, upgrades, hotels and more and t...

Do you want cheaper flights? Buying jeans on ASOS, booking a hotel, or switching your broadband can all earn you Avios to get you there cheaper?

Full details down below for 10 Ways to Earn Avios👇

#Avios #travel #points #AwardTravel #TravelWithPoints

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Oasia Downtown Singapore Hotel Review: A Chic Urban Escape In A Beautiful City Looking for a stylish, well-located hotel in Singapore without the Marina Bay Sands price tag? Oasia Downtown might just be the perfect fit.The final stop on our two-week adventure brought us back to ...

🌿✨ Singapore, but chic & affordable! ✨

Dreaming of Marina Bay Sands but not the £££? Oasia Downtown is a lush spot with skyline views, cocktails, & bubble baths. Obsessed.

#travel #points #OasiaDowntown #LuxuryForLess #SingaporeStaycation

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HEAVY DEPARTURES FT: AIR CHINA 747-8i YouTube video by BIG JET TV

What a day at Heathrow yesterday, tryout's for the Olympics on the tarmac!

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LeShuttle and Avios Announce Rewarding New Partnership In a move set to delight frequent travellers and points collectors alike, LeShuttle has officially launched a new partnership with Avios, the global loyalty currency used by British Airways and other ...

🚗💡 New: You can now earn up to 6 Avios per £1 with Eurotunnel! Drive to France and collect points like you're flying 🇬🇧✈️🇫🇷

You can spend Avios on Eurotunnel travel too. Road trips just got way more rewarding.

#travel #points #travelpointhacks #Avios

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Global Airlines Say Stop Speculating: A Speculation Piece There’s a special place in our hearts for dreamers in aviation. Anyone who’s ever looked at a mothballed A380 and thought, “You. You shall be glamorous again” deserves a lot of credit.But dreaming and...

Global Airlines dropped a 1,500 word manifesto, on LinkedIn of all places, to stop the speculation, so we thought we'd speculate!

🛫 Flew an A380
📉 Half-empty “on purpose”
📲 “No marketing”
🎥 YouTubers “loved it”

What do we think though?

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Emirates Economy Review: Boeing 777 (Singapore to Dubai, EK315) As one of the world’s most recognisable airlines, Emirates has long been on my aviation bucket list. Whether flying in their ultra-luxe First Class or back in Economy, I’ve always been curious: does t...

Helena finally flew Emirates Economy on the 777 - and let’s just say it wasn’t all gold trim & glamour.

Old screens, heatwaves, printed menus (in Economy?!)… and way too much chocolate

Is Emirates still top-tier or just coasting on reputation?

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Fly for Half the Avios: Loganair’s Limited-Time Deal If you're sitting on a stash of Avios and wondering how to get the most value from them, this is could be the deal for you. For a limited time, Loganair are offering Reward Flights for just 3,250 Avio...

Sitting on a stash of Avios? This could be your moment

For a limited time, Loganair Reward Flights are just 3,250 Avios one way, that’s 50% off the usual rate!

No catch, no faff. Just half-price flights using your points.

📅 Book by 10 June

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Go to Portsmouth, and catch the Hovercraft over to the Isle of Wight

Thursday Travel Tips: Things You Didn’t Know - Earn Avios on Accommodation Hello, and welcome to a new little series that we are calling Thursday Travel Tips - Things You Didn’t Know.This is the series where we are going to focus on a plethora of travel tips. From things you...

Biggest travel mistake? Booking hotels the wrong way.

You could be earning Avios while sipping cocktails by the pool 🍹

Hotels, villas, even Airbnbs', all can earn you points.
It’s easy. It’s free. And it adds up fast.

(Save + tag your travel buddy!)

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Must do work, must do work, must do work...

#switch2

A staple in my wallet

Club Suite 1.2 coming soon to the British Airways A380 👀

Small tweaks to a good product, but we're intrigued as to how good straps will be...

Why Are Plane Tickets From the UK So Expensive? Here’s Why You’re Paying More to Fly If you’ve ever booked a flight from a UK airport and felt like your wallet took a direct hit before you even reached the runway and left you thinking “Why are plane tickets from the UK so expensive” y...

Ever looked at a UK flight price and thought, “WHY is this so expensive?!”

Spoiler: it’s not just greedy airlines, it’s tax. And it’s going up. Again.

The UK has the highest air taxes in the world (yep, THE world), and by 2026 it’s getting even worse!

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