British Airways

After the overwhelming success of last week’s blog post covering four things you shouldn’t spend your points on. I decided to write a post covering the other side – things that…

Sometimes spending your Avios or Virgin Points seems downright difficult. In fact, I know a lot of people who simply don’t bother because they anticipate it’s going to be hard…

I know so many people who go to the trouble of collecting points, being loyal to a certain carrier or alliance and then waste the points they earned on un-efficient…

The single biggest trick to finding cheaper flights is called the Saturday Night Rule. It’s very easy to understand, simply have a Saturday night stay as part of your trip…

Frequent flier miles, one of the greatest loyalty myths of all time. Everybody thinks miles and points are about loyalty and there’s an element of loyalty, but there is more…

Well, the point is simple really… do you want the hassle of doing all the research every time you take a flight, wondering how to spend the points properly? Are…

One of the thing’s i’ve been doing during my flying career is trying to work out the on the fly value of my points. It’s not the simplest thing to…

First post ever on buymyupgrade’s blog. I suppose it should explain why this site exists in the first place. Over the year’s, i’ve spent many hundreds of hours on planes…