Holiday to New York in Aug 2016

We had an amazing offer from Copenhagen to New York (via Heathrow) for less than £950 in business class.

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Welcome to The Billingham Blog!

Welcome to The Billingham Blog! This is a record of Nigel and Vicky Billingham’s journey through life, primarily focusing on holidays, trips and events.

We are in the process of migrating our blog over from tumblr, which became far too restrictive with limited opportunities to expand. So we are hosting ourselves now with Hostinger.

That means it’s going to take us a while to migrate stories over, refine them and manage links to flickr photos. So bear with us!

Update on Migration Progress

  • 03/12/2022 – All 2022 stories have now been migrated.
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

Tier Point Run to Tucson in Oct 2024

By Nige on September 1, 2024 at 7:07 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Tucson in Oct 2024 Category: Travel
Tags: AGP | American Airlines | Announcements | Arizona | British Airways | DUB | Dublin | JFK | LAX | LHR | London Heathrow | Los Angeles | Malaga | New York Kennedy | Trips | Tucson | TUS | USA

Back in the air, to continue adding to my Tier Point pot. Somewhere new for me this time: Tucson in Arizona. The only time I have ever come across Tucson in the past is courtesy of Chandler in Friends.

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Los Angeles
Los Angeles

Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024

By Nige on May 11, 2024 at 12:00 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024 Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | Announcements | British Airways | California | Finnair | Hilton | LAX | LHR | London Heathrow | Los Angeles | Trips | USA

Another entertaining TP Run is on the cards: this time to Los Angeles. LA is not a normal destination for me, since it is usually just a connection point on the way to another US city.

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Hawaii
Hawaii

Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Feb 2024

By Nige on February 1, 2024 at 12:00 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Feb 2024 Category: Travel
Tags: American Airlines | AMS | Amsterdam | Announcements | British Airways | Hawaii | Hilton | HNL | Honolulu | JFK | LAX | LHR | London Heathrow | Los Angeles | New York | Trips | USA | Waikiki

My first trip to Hawaii in more than 12 months - I'm getting withdrawal symptoms! This trip starts in Amsterdam and follows the well-trodden path of flying over to Hawaii via London Heathrow, New York JFK and Los Angeles LAX. I start with an initial positioning flight from Heathrow to Amsterdam.

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