independent travel planning

A friend's Mum has upcoming business class flights from London to Australia - so I thought I'd put together some suggestions for how...

Whilst Star Alliance is the daddy of airline loyalty alliances, Oneworld  dominates some of their fifteen member countries. With many airlin...

The recent additional search facility on  Avios.com allows a broad overview of reward availability on Aer Lingus flights.  The clunky Aer L...

  Head for Points recently published the Peak dates for Avios redemptions on British Airways in 2027, so following my analysis last year , ...

Back in the day, the council leisure centre was the butt of comedy shows .  These days most councils have off loaded their gyms and leisure ...

Last year The Tim Traveller created an excellent video about the last remaining Hoverport from the halcyon days of cross channel Hovercraft ...

Booking a ferry from El Hierro to Tenerife the morning before flying out of TFS seemed a little risky, so I opted to spend some extra euros...

Back in September 2003 I flew on Concorde from Heathrow to JFK just a month before the iconic aircraft ceased commercial service. And whils...

Back in 1999 instead of heading to Cornwall like normal people did, I took a trip to Compiègne in Northern France to see the Total Solar Ecl...

In April 2019 the then British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz gave a talk at the Royal Aeronautical Society's Heathrow Branch, and y...