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JetBlue has finally done it. After years of being that airline, great seats, free Wi-Fi, decent food, genuinely likeable, but no proper airport lounge, JetBlue is opening its first-ever lounge, and it’s landed exactly where it should: New York JFK Terminal 5. It’s called BlueHouse™, it opens 18 December 2025 and if you’ve ever flown JetBlue from JFK wondering where on earth you’re meant to sit, eat, work or escape the chaos… this is a very big deal.

If you’ve ever stood around at London Heathrow Terminal 2 watching your flight delay stretch longer than your patience and thought, “Is there somewhere I can escape all this chaos?”, then welcome to the club. And welcome to this review. I recently visited the Plaza Premium Lounge at Terminal 2, London Heathrow. It’s genuinely beautiful inside, impressively styled, and promises an escape from the terminal madness. But let’s be honest, airport lounges aren’t all created equal.

Let me just say it straight: I had to check this deal three times because I thought it was a typo. Right now, thanks to Black Friday, you can get airport lounge access for as little as £17.10 per visit. Not a one-off. Not a fluke. Not a dodgy hack. Proper, walk-in, sit-down, food-and-drink airport lounges. If you fly more than five return trips a year, this is one of the biggest travel upgrades you’ll make for the least money and it ends December 7th. After that, it’s go

Right now, American Express Gold cardholders can get £125 back on an annual easyJet Plus membership, bringing the real-world cost down from £249 to just £124.

If you’re hosting, gifting, or simply stocking up for Christmas, this is one of the easiest Avios boosters of the season. Right now, you can earn: 5,000 Avios when you spend £150 2,500 Avios when you spend £100 on wine, Champagne, spirits and mixed cases across the Christmas shop.

The Smartest Travel Gift for 2026, This Is How You Fly Virgin Upper Class for Less Most gifts are forgotten by February. This one turns into boarding passes, lounge access, and Champagne at 35,000 feet. Right now, Virgin Atlantic is running one of the most powerful Flying Club offers of the year: up to a 70% bonus when you buy Virgin Points, available until 31 December 2025. Used properly, this isn’t speculative points collecting, it’s a direct route into real reward flight

The Smart Reality of Spending Avios after the Devaluation Avios isn’t “dead” but it has officially become a precision tool, not a blanket reward system. Smart Avios users will now: Target very specific routes Compare upgrade vs full redemption Use tools like Reward Flight Finder to avoid blind searching Spend Avios sooner, not later Because one rule always wins with airline currency:

British Airways has quietly launched a new way to upgrade your flight and for once, it gives passengers real control over what they pay. Instead of fixed upgrade prices at check-in, BA is now testing a bidding system that allows selected passengers to make an offer for a higher cabin before departure. If your bid is successful, you move up. If not, you stay put, no harm done. It’s rolled out slowly, and not every route or flight qualifies yet. But this is clearly part of BA

If you’ve ever flown from Luton, you’ll know the drill: early alarms, low-cost airlines, long queues, and a terminal that doesn’t forgive poor planning. When your flight’s at 6am with easyJet, Wizz Air or Ryanair, the last thing you want is to be circling for parking or overpaying at the barrier.

London’s Winter Wonderland has become something of a festive tradition, twinkling lights, overpriced hot chocolate, and a hefty bill by the end of the night. What was once a charming Christmas outing now feels more like a luxury event in itself. But here’s the truth: for the same cost as a day wandering Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland, you could be flying to Europe for a long weekend, sipping Glühwein in a medieval square surrounded by real snow, local crafts, and a whole lot

If you’ve ever hit that travel wall too early to check in, too tired to explore, and too broke for an airport hotel Munich International Airport has a very German solution: Napcabs. They’re sleeping pods tucked inside the terminal, offering a real bed, desk, Wi-Fi, power sockets, and peace (well… sort of) for weary travellers who just need a break from the boarding-gate chaos.

Right now, American Express Gold cardholders can get a massive £125 statement credit when they purchase an annual easyJet Plus membership. That turns a £249 membership into a real-world cost of just £124. That’s not a cheap-flight hack. That’s a premium flying upgrade at economy airline pricing.

Trying to book BA reward flights using Avios can feel like a full-time job. Seats vanish quickly, availability changes by the minute, and searching manually on ba.com is slow and frustrating. This week’s Avios Tip of the Week is about making that process faster, smarter — and cheaper. Right now, Reward Flight Finder is offering 20% off Annual memberships for Black Friday, and if you’re serious about booking Avios reward flights, this is one of the most powerful tools you ca

If Europe has Ryanair, Asia has AirAsia, same low-cost DNA, better food. Founded by Tony Fernandes, AirAsia is now Asia’s biggest budget airline, flying to 160+ destinations across Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, India and beyond.

Well this week I flew from Amsterdam to Manchester and when KLM offered me an upgrade to business class for £60 I thought you know what I will do it for my readers ( all 17 of them) and show em, check it out here. On the way home also in the name of BLOG research and 'aherm', work I tried and tested two lounges at Manchester Airport Terminal 2. Is the Escape Airport Lounge T2 Manchester Actually an Escape? My Honest Pre-Flight Verdict.

I paid £20 to fly from London to Morocco after a Jack’s Flight Club alert landed in my inbox, a price so low I genuinely thought it was a glitch. A few days later, I was sitting under desert stars in southern Morocco wondering how on earth that flight cost less than a taxi to the airport. That exact route no longer exists,(London Stansted to Ourrzazate with Ryanair) but here’s the important bit:the system that found it absolutely does. Today, similar Jack’s alerts still reg

Wizz Air flight delays and cancellations! Wizz Air have once again been ranked the worst airline in the UK for flight delays!

Launched with big promises of cheaper fares, free seats and bundled travel insurance, Prime was supposed to be Ryanair’s answer to frequent flyer loyalty, without actually being loyal. But behind the scenes, the maths clearly wasn’t mathing. As of 28 November, Ryanair has confirmed that no new customers can join Prime, quietly ending one of the shortest-lived “loyalty” experiments in airline history. Existing members will keep their perks until their 12-month term expires, b

If you’re researching Amsterdam airport lounge options, especially the KLM lounge Amsterdam for non-Schengen flights, here’s the truth I wish I’d read before my trip. KLM’s flagship Crown Lounge 52 at Amsterdam Schiphol should feel premium. It should feel calm. It should feel like a warm, blue-and-white KLM hug before boarding. Instead? It felt a bit… slecht. (That’s Dutch for bad, and honestly the kindest word I can use.) Let’s Jet straight into it.

If you’re searching for flights to Barbados, dreaming of St Lucia holidays, or planning a winter Caribbean holiday, Virgin Atlantic has just dropped one of its biggest upgrades in years. Two new interline partnerships, plus boosted inter-island flying, now make it easier than ever to reach more islands, build a multi-stop itinerary, and enjoy the Caribbean the way it should be: smooth, sunshine-filled and stress-free. It’s exactly the kind of news I love for Plane Luxury