Instructables

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Guides

How to travel with two passports

Have you recently acquired dual citizenship? Or you need to understand how to travel between countries if you hold two or more passports? This post explains how you should present your documents step-by-step.

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Guides

The Complete British Airways Tier Point Runs Guide, 2020 Edition

The best BA Tier Point runs will oven get over 1000 TP for less than £1 per Tier Point. But how do you go about finding them? This post gives more details.

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Guides

Beginners guide to Hilton Honors – updated 2021

This is an all-inclusive beginners’ guide to Hilton Honors. It explains the different levels of their loyalty programme and how to efficiently earn and spend your points.

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Guides

Is BoardingArea getting too cluttered for you? Tips to help you filter what you need

BoardingArea has obviously grown and evolved over its 10+ years of existence. This post should help you filter out the content to whatever you need.

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Deals

How to request Original Routing Credit from British Airways.

Sometimes you will misconnect a flight and be routed another way. But since airlines will tend to credit any air miles for the ones you actually flew, you should argue for the Original Routing Credit where it works in your favour.

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Deals

How to pay 0% VAT on Amazon orders within the European Union. (EU Reverse Charge Mechanism)

How to buy off Amazon and pay 0% VAT on your goods when within the EU.

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Beginners' Guide

Beginners’ guide to the Amsterdam to Jersey British Airways tier point run – updated 2019

This post describes one of British Airways’ most famous Tier Point runs, between Jersey and Amsterdam.

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Guides

For BA beginners: 5 easy things to boost your British Airways and Avios earning and spending

Totally new to Avios, British Airways or Iberia? Or even air miles in general?

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Transferwise is known to be the leading foreign exchange bank transfer service, but my latest transaction really did surprise me with its efficiency!

Guides

Quicktip: British Airways 24hr cooling off period

British Airways has a generous 24 hour ‘cooling off’ period for booking tickets. You can exploit this to secure a flight while you look for another, or even check cheap business class tickets at no risk.

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Quicktip: Looking for cheapest air fares to anywhere? Try Kayak…

The collapse in global oil prices has been making its mark in the airline industry. Long haul air fares are at the lowest I seen in over a decade! If you have never used it before, try using Kayak as a first screening.

Guides

Doing Amsterdam turnarounds for BA ex-EU ticketing

An excerpt from my video diary of a JER-AMS Tier Point run from earlier in the year. Here you can see how easy it is to do straight turnarounds at Amsterdam.