The 2024 Bonvoyed Awards | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep286 | 12-20-24
Release Date: 12/20/2024
Capital One: Get more for your Double Miles | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep293 | 2-7-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
On today's episode the fellas chat about how to get the Southwest Companion Pass with just one card, whether or not your Marriott points just became more valuable, and how to get great value out of Capital One miles. (01:17) - One of our younger readers talks about a huge award booking success, all achieved without pro award booking tools. (05:40) - Quick overview of the Million Mile Madness challenge Watch our Rewatch the entire (10:27) - Get Southwest Companion Pass through 2/28/26 Learn (13:25) - Frontier Platinum status fast track: Earn 20k Elite Status Points by 4/30/25 Learn (18:46)...
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How Hilton can win our loyalty | Coffee Break Ep44 | 2-4-25
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We love how Hilton incorporates partners like SLH and Autocamp for example. But there are things we don't love about Hilton too. Today we'll talk about the ways they could win our loyalty. (00:00) - We love how Hilton incorporates partners: SLH and Autocamp for example (00:25) - But here's what we don't love... (04:18) - Greg's suggestions for Hilton (05:04) - Hilton's meaningful milestone benefits start way too late (at 40 nights) (06:36) - Milestone benefits of early check-in certificates would really wow us Visit to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and...
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Points & Miles 2 Player Mode | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep292 | 1-31-25
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On this episode, we'll talk about a crazy new premium credit card, we'll debate double elite night hotel promotions to see if they're mattress run worthy, talk about a nice new way to use JetBlue points, and discuss how to double your rewards with a partner. (01:15) - One reader writes in about booking their family with roundtrip business class flights to Australia for Christmas and New Years!!! (05:00) - New JetBlue Premier Card... Learn more about (12:13) - IHG Premier offer up to 170K after $4K spend in 3 months Learn more about (13:33) - IHG overlapping promos Learn more about (14:58) -...
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World of Hyatt is broken. Here's how to fix it. | Coffee Break Ep43 | 1-28-25
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World of Hyatt has been a favorite amongst points and miles enthusiasts for years. You can use your points for excellent properties at typically excellent values and the elite benefits are actually valuable. But...they're far from perfect, especially more recently. Not to worry - we have some suggestions for what they can do to get back on track. (00:10) - Has been a great program for years (02:20) - Long term problem: limited number of hotels (04:29) - But they've killed a lot of the progress they'd made towards the footprint problem and moved instead towards dynamic award pricing (07:54) -...
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Rocking Shopping Portals for Huge Rewards | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep291 | 1-24-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
In today's episode we'll discuss what's up with Hilton gift cards, we'll intensely debate Virgin Atlantic award charts, cover 2 different points millionaire promos, then finally, we'll tell you how to earns tons of rewards through shopping portals. (01:29) - One reader reports on their success with the Southwest Companion Pass with just one of the Southwest business cards when it had the elevated 120k offer. Read more about (04:29) - Chase Bonvoy Bold: now features Chase’s Pay Yourself Back benefit. (08:36) - Citi changed transfer rates to Flying Blue to 1.25 (temporarily) (11:38) - Qantas...
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What's in Our Wallets? (Jan 2025) | Coffee Break Ep42 | 1-21-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Greg and Nick have a LOT of cards between the two of them and they can't possibly carry all of them in their real-life physical wallets. What happens instead is that they tend to rotate the cards in their wallets based on what the current bonuses are, whether or not there are cards they're trying to reach a spend requirement on...and...whether or not they can find the physical card. In this episode, they'll cover the major real-life spend categories and which cards they're carrying for those purposes. (01:19) - Which cards do Greg and Nick carry for Grocery spend? Learn more about (02:06) -...
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Your ticket to the Delta Sky Club | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep290 | 1-17-25
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In this episode, Greg and Nick will look at 4 ways to access Delta Sky Clubs, they'll reveal a hot reader tip for a free stay in Atlantis in the Bahamas, and they'll discuss the Air France / KLM Flying Blue devaluation. Check out the full episode below. (01:28) - It seems like a lot of people are running into issues lately with using the $200 platinum credit for Fine Hotels and Resorts. (07:03) - United TravelBank glitch (now resolved) [Reported on Reddit] (09:50) - Air France KLM Flying Blue award prices increase by 15-25% to/from Europe Read more about (18:02) - It's not too late to...
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Our Marriott Bonvoy Wishlist | Coffee Break Ep41 | 1-14-25
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In today's podcast episode Greg and Nick will talk about the things they wish Marriott would add to their program to make it a really great program. They argue these things shouldn't even have to cost Marriott that much to implement. (01:24) - Fix the Platinum Elite free breakfast benefit Find our (05:00) - Clear Nightly Upgrade Awards from the time of booking (08:21) - Remove the 15K limit on free night certificate top-offs (11:11) - Waive resort fees on free night stays Visit to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us...
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Airline Elite Status via Hotel Stays | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep289 | 1-10-25
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There are a few ways now where you can earn elite status on airlines entirely through hotel stays! This is sort of a new development that we're excited to discuss in today's podcast. (01:32) - Whoops: Forgot United offers elite earnings on award tickets (UA flights only) . (04:09) - IHG Choice Benefit annual lounge membership trick worked this year (05:58) - One reader finds a way to get an offer to upgrade back to Amex Platinum for 50K bonus points after 2K spend. (08:03) - Alaska Biz Card 70K offer is back: 70K miles and Companion Fare™ Learn more about . (09:27) - Costco...
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Greg's experience booking a Preferred Hotel with Choice points | Coffee Break Ep40 | 1-7-25
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You can book Preferred Hotels with Choice Privileges points, (which has a 1:2 transfer rate from Citi Thank You points), or Preferred Hotel points (which has a 1:4 transfer rate from Citi Thank You points). There are reasons to book with one points over another, but is this worth doing? Greg's recent experience booking a Preferred Hotel with Choice points can help shed some light on the question. (01:24) - The Seagate Hotel & Spa Delray Beach Florida (01:48) - Different booking options... (05:17) - Booking experience... (12:17) - Hotel stay experience (the good and bad) Visit to...
info_outlineToday we'll take a look back at the year and talk about what loyalty programs have done to us instead of for us. This is for the loyalty grinches!
(01:07) - Revisiting a question we'd answered previously about whether or not several domestic flights a month would be enough for earning status.
(06:18) - One reader has some information to share about the Atlantis property they booked now (before their Caesar's Diamond status disappears) for a stay in the future...
Read more about booking the Atlantis hotel here.
(10:12) - Flying Blue: Sends emails saying "Congratulations you are now a Flying Blue Ultimate member"
(11:44) - IHG: Purchase EQPs. 120K price: $640, no... $800, no... $1000, back to $640...
(16:27) - Nick flies to Mexico but doesn't leave the airport
(21:12) - Greg and Nick forgot about Bilt
Find our podcast episode about the upcoming Alaska Premium card here.
(23:42) - Preferred Hotels: Greg's ongoing Preferred Hotel booking saga
(29:48) - AA: Can now use miles to book Hawaiian flights from mainland US
(31:39) - Aviator Silver companion cert ain't all that
Read our Aviator Silver companion cert first impressions here.
(38:14) - Hilton Aspire resort credit-eligible hotel list un-shrinks
(39:40) - Marriott Upgrade Awards now clear five days out (again)
(43:27) - Southwest: assigned seating
Read about Southwest's upcoming assigned seating here.
(46:31) - 2023 Bonvoyed Awards Recap...
2024 Dis-Loyalty Nominees...
(51:38) - Chase & Capital One priority pass drops restaurants
(55:56) - Virgin goes dynamic
(59:08) - Virgin devalues Delta One to Europe
(1:02:36) - Wyndham Vacasa devaluation
(1:06:19) - BA & Qatar raise prices for short-haul partner awards (AA, Alaska)
(1:09:54) - Etihad nerfs award cancelations and point expirations
(1:15:43) - Bilt reduces Rent Day earnings to 1K bonus points
(1:18:50) - Wyndham Biz kills free cruises
(1:21:20) - Hyatt integrates Mr & Mrs Smith
(1:23:14) - Final picks
(1:30:20) - Why are there so many pop-up ads on your site?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder