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	Hyatt & Air Canada's partnership reaches next level \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep379 \| 10-16-26	16 oct. 2026	01:07:38
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In today's episode, United will be making it harder to earn status in 2027; we're simplifying our card and bank account collections; there are Amex Platinum card rumors, and Hyatt now allows transferring points to others online. And speaking of Hyatt... they've made the next move in their relationship with Air Canada. But... is it enough? Giant Mailbag (01:13) - Megan asks Greg if he's considered opening a Bask Bank account as a potential for AA miles Learn more about the Bask Bank Offer here Bonvoyed: United (09:16) - United will be making it harder to earn status in 2027 This Week in Points (13:35) - Transferring Hyatt points to other members can now be done online! (16:44) - Rove has added another new transfer partner: JetBlue (18:40) - Elite night credits from multiple IHG credit cards do stack (20:34) - Hilton and IHG drop their point sale price below half a cent (23:59) - Get paid to visit Vancouver, British Columbia Learn more about getting paid to visit Vancouver here (25:49) - Amex Platinum Rumors (39:00) - Find our "Which cards are keepers?" resource here Personal Points (39:22) - Nick is downgrading cards (46:50) - Greg is downgrading cards too... Main Event: Hyatt & Air Canada's partnership reaches next level (50:30) - Initial partnership (54:21) - What's new? (1:04:06) - Hyatt/Air Canada Dual accrual promo Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Weekend in Europe, where should Greg go? \| Coffee Break Ep125 \| 10-14-26	14 oct. 2026	00:19:36
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Greg is going to Berlin, but he may not stay in Berlin for the weekend. He hasn't yet booked a flight home, so he could hop over to another European city and fly home from there. Nick recommended Prague, but are there other places Greg should consider? Coffee Break: Weekend in Europe, where should Greg go? (00:17) - See our August 28th podcast "Hidden Gem Awards" here (01:20) - See Carrie's suggestions here (02:53) - Feedback about Prague and other options by train (06:55) - Flight options (10:03) - Other listener/reader suggestions: (17:19) - Greg's decision... Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Should I keep my ultra-premium card to preserve 1:1 point transfers? \| Question of the Week Ep18 \| 10-12-26	12 oct. 2026	00:03:17
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Should I keep my ultra-premium card to preserve 1:1 point transfers? Chuck wrote in with this question, asking: Do you think other banks will do something similar to what Chase did with Hyatt — requiring the highest end card in order to maintain the 1:1 transfer? Will Citi require the Strata Elite for AA? Will C1, Will Amex? I wouldn't want to cancel an elite card only to later learn I need it to maintain value of points. Your thoughts? (01:05) - Do we think other banks will do this? Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Alaska Atmos: Choose how you earn \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep378 \| 10-9-26	09 oct. 2026	01:21:03
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In today's episode, we'll speculate about Hyatt credit card changes, reveal 9 Secret Chase Sapphire Reserve® Exclusive Tables restaurants, and dig into Alaska Atmos Rewards: Which is better, earning by distance, price, or segments? Wild Card Update (02:15) - Congratulations to Tim! Check out the recap videos here Giant Mailbag (03:35) - Correcting mistakes from last week's podcast episode See last week's podcast episode about IHG's new card lineup here (07:47) - Speculation about Chase Bonvoyed: Wyndham (13:54) - New Award buckets live as of 9/15 and Wyndham Rewards RRV drops 15% Learn more about this here This Week in Points (23:17) - AA economy award sale to Sydney from 25K points (24:21) - Chase Air Canada Aeroplan® Credit Card (26:22) - United free checked bags on award tickets Read more about free checked bags (28:55) - 9 Secret Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Table restaurants Find the dining credit map here Personal Points (34:21) - US Bank travel center for the save (37:13) - Messed up re: United status match Learn more about my quest for Flying Blue Platinum status: https://frequentmiler.com/my-quest-for-flying-blue-platinum-status/ Main Event: Alaska Atmos: Choose how you earn (44:50) - Atmos Rewards: Choose how you earn (47:50) - Rewards by price paid (the most complicated option) (49:52) - Partner earn rates (other than AA) (55:12) - Elite status considerations (57:20) - Examples (1:12:20) - Overall Conclusion Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Wild Card Challenge final scoring and winner announced! \| Special Feature Episode \| 10-7-26	08 oct. 2026	00:53:39
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler The Wild Card challenge has officially wrapped, with the final scores and official winner announced in our live YouTube broadcast on October 7th, 2026. Review the scoring and listen to the live broadcast here. As a reminder, for this challenge, our contestants picked from different wild card decks to set the parameters of their trips. First, they selected travel destinations, then hotel, airline, and transferable points cards, which provided their points and miles budgets. And finally, they selected power-ups and obstacles to make their travels a little more realistic to the challenges our readers and listeners face, and make things a little more interesting! Finally, they had to meet together in Melbourne, Australia, a destination that was revealed as a complete surprise in our card draw livestream. Total scores after Destinations 1 & 2 As a quick reminder, here were the scores each of the contestants earned after the first two destinations: Greg Destination 1 = 102 Destination 2 = 106 Total score = 208 Nick Destination 1 = 105 Destination 2 = 115 Total score = 220 Tim Destination 1 = 107 Destination 2 = 123 Total score = 230 Destination 3 scoring During the livestream on Wednesday night, we judges awarded the scores for their third and final destination: Melbourne, Australia. Here's a breakdown of what each of them earned: Greg Flights Wallet-friendliness – 8 Ingenuity – 9 Luxury – 6 Duplicability – 10 Accommodation Wallet-friendliness – 6 Ingenuity – 6 Luxury – 9 Duplicability – 10 Activities Wallet-friendliness – 7 Ingenuity – 10 Luxury – 10 Duplicability – 10 Mini challenge description Many of our readers use miles and points for their honeymoons. Pick an activity you could imagine including in a honeymoon trip. – 10 Additional bonus points We were impressed with Greg's gameplay whereby he paid for his hotels using airline miles and paid for nearly all his flights using hotel points - 10 Total points for Destination 3 – 121 Total points for Destinations 1 & 2 – 208 Total points for the entire trip – 329 Nick Flights Wallet-friendliness – 7 Ingenuity – 8 Luxury – 7 Duplicability – 10 Accommodation Wallet-friendliness – 7 Ingenuity – 8 Luxury – 8 Duplicability – 10 Activities Wallet-friendliness – 10 Ingenuity – 9 Luxury – 9 Duplicability – 10 Mini challenge description Many of our readers travel with picky eaters. Order a dish you think is locally authentic, but wouldn't scare off a picky eater. – 10 Additional bonus points Nick was a real trooper considering he had to fly across the Atlantic three times despite not having to actually visit Europe as part of the challenge, as well as for managing to fit in so many activities despite the lack of sleep - 10 Total points for Destination 3 – 123 Total points for Destinations 1 & 2 – 220 Total points for the entire trip – 343 Tim Flights Wallet-friendliness – 10 Ingenuity – 10 Luxury – 10 Duplicability – 10 Accommodation Wallet-friendliness – 9 Ingenuity – 9 Luxury – 10 Duplicability – 10 Activities Wallet-friendliness – 8 Ingenuity – 10 Luxury – 9 Duplicability – 10 Mini challenge description Many of our readers travel with young children. In this destination, find an activity that would be infant-friendly, but not a snooze fest for Mom and Dad. – 0 Additional bonus points Tim had arguably the best set of cards that were picked for the challenge, but what he did with them far exceeded what we imagine many people thought he'd be able to do with them - 10 Total points for Destination 3 – 125 Total points for Destinations 1 & 2 – 230 Total points for the entire trip – 355 Rewatch the livestream below (01:15) - Recap of Greg's previous score (01:40) - How did Greg get home? (04:08) - Greg's final score (07:49) - Team rebuttal for Greg's score (11:28) - Recap of Nick's previous score (12:18) - How did Nick get home? (15:03) - Nick's final score (20:09) - Team rebuttal for Nick's score (24:11) - How did Tim get home? (27:46) - Recap of Tim's previous score (28:03) - Tim's final score (35:19) - Did anyone wish they'd made use of the option to fully redraw cards? (39:47) - At any point in this challenge were you truly dead tired? (46:33) - What surprised you most about your activities or destinations? Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “swappin’ back n’ forth” by up @ night Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Bilt goes 4:3 to Hyatt. Now what? \| Coffee Break Ep124 \| 10-7-26	07 oct. 2026	00:24:35
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Just like we've seen with most of Chase cards, Bilt has announced it will be moving to a 4:3 transfer rate with Hyatt starting in January. So, what's the best way to get Hyatt points now? Learn more about this here (01:12) - Option 1: Earn Bilt 3x (or more) (05:05) - Option 2: Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card (09:08) - Option 3: Hyatt card (11:04) - Read about Hyatt Milestone spending here (14:18) - Will Bilt do transfer bonuses? (16:16) - Is it worth pursuing Hyatt points post deval? (19:50) - Which approach will we take? Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Estate planning for miles and points? \| Question of the Week Ep17 \| 10-5-26	05 oct. 2026	00:11:12
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler What should you keep in mind when Estate planning for miles and points? Reader John wrote in with this question, asking: I’m working through estate planning right now and one thing keeps bothering me: what happens to a meaningful stash of points and miles when you die?Have you ever thought through your own points-and-miles estate planning? What would you do if your heirs weren’t hobbyists? Transfer where possible, redeem in advance, leave detailed instructions, designate one knowledgeable person to handle it, something else?I’d be interested in how you would approach it. See our post about this here. (01:11) - If you are planning for an imminent situation: (01:25) - Combine points where possible (05:06) - Cash out points (05:44) - Planning an "in case" scenario (08:43) - Take things slowly Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	IHG's new card lineup: more premium, more coupons, milestones unlocked \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep377 \| 10-2-26	02 oct. 2026	01:01:52
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler On today's episode, we'll talk about the interesting new business cards from US Bank, discuss how Choice now gives you the choice to share points, how Bank of America points are soon to be transferable, and complete details of IHG's new credit card lineup. This Week in Points (02:02) - Alaska News Learn more about the Atmos debit card here (10:43) - Chase card updates (14:04) - Rove transfer bonuses (18:41) - Choice point sharing now live (20:45) - Hyatt promo: Earn 3K bonus points for every 3 nights you stay (Max 36K points) Learn more about this promo here (21:06) - Wow: A new 5% office supply store card from U.S. Bank hits the market (27:16) - Amtrak added as a Bilt transfer partner; transfer ratio is 2:1 Read about Amtrak being added here (29:01) - Bilt adds upgrade/downgrade terms and conditions Read about Bilt's upgrade/downgrade terms here Personal Points (29:52) - Greg: Capital One is back, AA Globe is gone Main Event: IHG's new card lineup: more premium, more coupons, milestones unlocked (32:26) - Read more about the new IHG One Rewards Premier Select credit card here And read about the changes to the rest of the IHG cards here: https://frequentmiler.com/all-the-existing-ihg-credit-cards-have-been-refreshed-here-are-the-changes/ (33:00) - IHG One Rewards Traveler Card (35:42) - IHG Milestone Rewards (39::36) - IHG One Rewards Premier World Elite Mastercard (46:49) - IHG One Rewards Business World Mastercard (51:35) - New Premier Select Credit Card Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Wild Card challenge destination 3 check-in \| Special Feature Episode \| 9-31-26	01 oct. 2026	01:20:20
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In our third check-in of the Wild Card Challenge, our contestant's were in their final destination, nearly done with their travels. However, judges and viewers were not quite ready to score everything we were catching up on. In this check-in, we scored the second destination's activities and caught up with what our travelers had done since then, in preparation to finish scoring and announce a winner soon! (01:15) - Who is Annie? (05:35) - A quick recap of where the scoring left off (07:47) - Nick recaps his destination 2 (09:29) - Greg recaps his destination 2 (11:41) - Tim recaps his destination 2 (18:28) - Nick's scores for destination 2 (20:53) - Greg's scores for destination 2 (24:00) - Tim's scores for destination 2 (26:43) - Invitation for feedback Comment with your thoughts on how the scores could or should be adjusted here: https://frequentmiler.com/wild-card-challenge-the-scores-so-far-a-final-opportunity-to-influence-the-scoring/ (27:40) - Nick shares what he's been up to since destination 2 (35:34) - Greg shares what he's been up to since destination 2 (49:15) - Tim shares what he's been up to since destination 2 You can read more about Tim's award booking here: https://frequentmiler.com/costa-rica-to-korea-and-australia-on-one-business-class-award-tims-wild-card-challenge-journal/ (01:08:49) - Our favorite elements of each traveler's trip Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Wild Card Challenge Destination 2 Check-in \| Special Feature Episode \| 9-28-26	28 sept. 2026	01:05:14
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler While Greg and Nick, along with Tim, are traveling for the ongoing Wild Card Challenge, our podcasts will feature each of 3 live check-ins occurring throughout the challenge. On Saturday, we caught up with our Wild Card Challenge travelers for our second live check-in to discuss everyone's second destinations, (even though not everyone was still in their second destinations!) We started out by making some scoring adjustments based on your suggestions, so give the full video a look for some fun discussion around score adjustments! What is the Wild Card challenge? For this challenge, our contestants have picked from wild card decks to set the parameters of their trips. First, they selected travel destinations, then hotel, airline, and transferable points cards, which provide their points and miles budgets. And finally, they selected power-ups and obstacles to make their travels a little more realistic to the challenges our readers and listeners face, and make things a little more interesting! Learn more about the ongoing challenge here. (00:33) - Quick check-in on where everyone is (03:55) - Review of previously assigned scores at the Destination 1 live check-in (05:15) - We reveal our score adjustments, based on our feedback (19:02) - Greg destination 2 summary (26:52) - Nick destination 2 summary (39:58) - Tim destination 2 summary Tune in Wednesday, September 30th at 9AM (yes, that's AM) Eastern Time for our final live check-in in the third Wild Card destination! Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Wild Card Challenge Destination 1 Check-In \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep376 \| 9-25-26	25 sept. 2026	00:59:42
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Greg and Nick, along with Tim, are busy flying around the world for the Wild Card Challenge, which is going on now! That means they didn't have time to film our usual podcast episode. Not to mention, we want to make sure everyone gets the chance to hear an update for the first destination of the Wild Card Challenge, even if you missed the live stream last evening. In this episode, relisten to the Destination 1 travel summaries and scoring. (01:17) - Greg summarizes his Wild Card Challenge Destination 1 (08:22) - Nick summarizes his Wild Card Challenge Destination 1 (15:21) - Tim summarizes his Wild Card Challenge Destination 1 (26:56) - Greg's scores (34:10) - Greg offers a rebuttal for his scoring (35:43) - Nick's scores (46:41) - Nick offers a rebuttal for his scoring (49:00) - Tim's scores (54:57) - Tim offers a rebuttal for his scoring Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Citi adds valuable transfer partner: Japan Airlines \| Coffee Break Ep123 \| 9-23-26	23 sept. 2026	00:15:48
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Citi has added a valuable new transfer partner to their collection: Japan Airlines. This is good news after a roller coaster of good and bad news from Citi, but even this good news comes with some bad news too. (00:17) - ThankYou Rewards: For the best transfer ratios, you need: Citi Strata Premier℠ Card, Citi Strata Elite℠ Card, or the old Prestige card (00:41) - Citi ThankYou roller-coaster (02:11) - New: Added JAL but with lifetime language... (03:37) - Why JAL is amazing (09:02) - On the other hand... (09:42) - Citi advantages (11:37) - Citi disadvantages Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Is this points & miles hobby worth my time? \| Question of the Week Ep16 \| 9-21-26	21 sept. 2026	00:14:26
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Is this points & miles hobby worth my time? Reader John asked this question recently, saying: Do you ever calculate the return on your time in the points and miles game? We spend a lot of time talking about return on spend and cents per point, but I rarely hear anyone talk about return on time invested. For me, points and miles are a hobby, not my job, so I sometimes catch myself asking whether saving an extra $200, or getting that credit or getting another 30,000 points is really worth two or three hours of my time. I tend to think about what my time is worth financially, but I also think about the opportunity cost. That might be time with my family (which really prompted this question) , working on my business (this honestly has much better return) , exercising, or just doing something else I enjoy.I know you guys sometimes go to extraordinary lengths because there is value in being able to report the results to your readers and listeners. But outside of the journalism side, do you personally put any value on the hours you spend playing the game? (01:04) - Why Greg's answer is "Absolutely!" (07:14) - Why Nick's answer is "Yes and no." We’ve been answering a reader or listener question at the end of each Frequent Miler on the Air podcast episode. Now, we’ve turned the question of the week into its own weekly episode. Tune in every Monday at 1pm for our Question of the Week podcast. And if you have your own question you’d like to submit, you can send it to mailbag@frequentmiler.com. Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Diving into Delta's huge card offers \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep375 \| 9-17-26	18 sept. 2026	01:21:32
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In today's episode, we'll get a Wild Card challenge update (including some cool tips regarding Capital One travel), Greg reveals that he's considering a United status match, Nick reveals he's considering a Delta status match, and we discuss the latest huge Delta card offers and how they relate to status matching. Wild Card Challenge Update (01:22) - Learn more about the ongoing challenge here. (03:01) - Nick's Wild Card update (09:52) - Greg's Wild Card update (17:16) - Find the Wild Card challenge landing page with more information here Giant Mailbag (17:39) - Patrick asks, "Do we make hay while the Amex sun is shining, or are we crazy to keep piling into a currency we’re already very rich in?" Bonvoyed: Amex/ANA & AwardWallet (22:43) - Amex/ANA (24:40) - Award Wallet is changing how expiration alerts work This Week in Points (28:50) - Chase news... (35:04) - Qatar Airways removed restrictions that limited the ability to redeem Avios for other people Read more about this update here Personal Points (37:25) - Efteling: Book it through any of the major channels. Theme park tickets included with your stay! (40:57) - Greg's considering the 120-day United status match (45:36) - Nick's considering the Delta status match Main Event: Diving into Delta's huge card offers (49:58) - Through November 4, Amex has some of the biggest welcome offers we've ever seen for Delta credit cards... all the way up to 200,000 miles... (50:28) - Some notes before we dig in... (56:13) - Quick overview of the 6 cards we'll be talking about (1:01:45) - Gold card offers Learn more about the Consumer Delta Gold card here Learn more about the business Gold card here (1:05:18) - Platinum card offers Learn more about the Consumer Delta Platinum card here Learn more about the Business Delta Platinum card here (01:10:06) - Reserve card offers Learn more about the Consumer Delta Reserve card here Learn more about the Business Delta Reserve card here Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Best time to apply for hotel cards to leverage free night certificates \| Coffee Break Ep122 \| 9-16-26	16 sept. 2026	00:14:01
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Many hotel cards come with free night certificates each year upon renewal. That's great, but those certificates expire after 12 months. If you don't time your applications well, you may struggle to use those certificates... (00:17) - Greg's been considering getting the Hilton Aspire, but... is this the right time? (01:05) - Example Problems (03:55) - When do free night certificates post? (07:52) - Nick & Greg's thoughts/analysis Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Wild Card Challenge card draw \| Ask Us Anything Ep90 \| 9-9-26	14 sept. 2026	01:14:31
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler For this challenge, our contestants will pick from wild card decks to select which hotel, airline, and transferable points cards will provide their points and miles budget, then they’ll select their travel destinations from another deck. And finally, they’ll select power-ups and obstacles to make their travels a little more realistic to the challenges our readers and listeners face. (03:45) - Destination 1 cards are drawn (08:12) - Destination 2 cards are drawn (18:03) - Airline credit cards are drawn (25:29) - Hotel credit cards are drawn (30:56) - Transferable points credit cards are drawn (36:46) - A surprise extra credit card is drawn (43:31) - Reader-submitted obstacle cards are drawn (51:13) - Power up cards are drawn (57:39) - Stephen reveals the final, third destination where each contestant will need to meet up (1:02:44) - Surprise! Contestants get a hail mary option they can choose to take... Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “swappin’ back n’ forth” by up @ night Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Chase's disappointing Air Canada Aeroplan® Credit Card refresh \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep374 \| 9-11-26	11 sept. 2026	00:59:36
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In today's episode, listeners weigh in on Nick's pick for "best Hyatt Place breakfast", Hyatt breaks up with one airline and ties up with another, and we review Chase's refreshed Air Canada Aeroplan card. Wild Card Challenge Update (01:15) - Which cards did our contestants pick for the Wild Card challenge? Learn more about the ongoing challenge here Giant Mailbag (09:02) - In our Hidden Gem Awards Ep373, Nick said Hyatt Place Amsterdam Airport had the best breakfast in the world... but do people agree? Mattress Running the Numbers (14:24) - Marriott Amex Offer: Spend $450 & get $200 back (targeted) Learn more about this targeted offer here This Week in Points (17:06) - US Bank adds Avianca LifeMiles as transfer partner (18:28) - Rove adds Copa Airlines as transfer partner, launching with 40% transfer bonus through September Learn more about Rove adding Copa here (20:13) - Hyatt dissolves partnership with AA Read more about Hyatt's ending partnership with American Airlines here (22:27) - Hyatt adds partnership with Delta: https://newsroom.hyatt.com/DeltaAirLines Card news (24:39) - Amex Bonvoy Business Card is coming (26:48) - Chase Sapphire Reserve enhances DoorDash benefit Learn more about this enhanced benefit here (29:34) - Chase IHG Premier Business anniversary free night certificate will increase to 50K points in 2027 Personal Points (31:16) - Chase return protection success (35:54) - Atmos Summit $60K spend Main Event: Chase's disappointing Aeroplan Card refresh (38:25) - New Cardmember Offer (39:54) - The changes that really matter (52:20) - Quick summary of the good stuff and bad stuff (53:35) - Nick and Greg: Never got the card before. Is it worth it now? Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Loving RiverView Ranch \| Coffee Break Ep121 \| 9-9-26	09 sept. 2026	00:34:11
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Greg has just returned from a short trip to RiverView Ranch in Montana - probably the single most aspirational points stay available in the United States. Now, he'll tell us all about it. Loving RiverView Ranch (00:46) - RiverView Ranch Retreat & Western Adventures Learn more about Hilton's flexible date calendar here (02:45) - Cancelation fees (03:28) - How to get free night certs Read: How to maximize your Hilton cards (with upgrades and downgrades) here (04:45) - Greg's pre-trip report (12:28) - Greg's trip report (14:49) - King Suite (19:04) - Dining (21:10) - Activities (26:19) - Wildlife (26:34) - Checkout (27:52) - Review (29:43) - How does it compare to Ventana Big Sur? (31:17) - How does it compare to Necker Island? Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	What to do when your credit limit is too low? \| Question of the Week Ep15 \| 9-7-26	07 sept. 2026	00:10:45
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler What to do when your credit limit is too low? Kris reached out with the following question about managing a low credit limit: On your recent podcast, you mentioned that banks don’t like you to cycle cards. I just got approved for the new Capital One Venture Business card, and upon approval, found out that they had given me a credit limit of $2000. This obviously is going to make it very difficult to make the minimum spend for the sign-up bonus, and obviously can’t if I don’t cycle the card. I did try to call and request an increase and pointed out that I have a personal Venture X with a credit limit of $50,000 that is paid off fully every month. I asked for a credit increase and offered to decrease my Venture X credit limit, but was declined. (00:57) - What is credit cycling? (02:38) - Why is cycling generally inadvisable? (03:55) - Is cycling ever OK? We’ve been answering a reader or listener question at the end of each Frequent Miler on the Air podcast episode. Now, we’ve turned the question of the week into its own weekly episode. Tune in every Monday at 1pm for our Question of the Week podcast. And if you have your own question you’d like to submit, you can send it to mailbag@frequentmiler.com. Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Our biggest point gambles \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep374 \| 9-4-26	04 sept. 2026	00:57:49
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler On today's episode, we'll talk about why Air Canada to Hyatt 2-to-1 transfers can be a good deal, how we won big on a 240x deal, the 250x deal that got away, and much more. Our apologies for Nick's lower-quality audio this week! We're working to fix it! Our biggest point gamblesGiant Mailbag (01:04) - Josh: Is the Hyatt/Aeroplan deal good for Canadians? Main Event: Our biggest point gambles (07:54) - When we took big risks to earn big miles... (08:04) - Nordstrom 36X (2012) (15:32) - Convert 90K SPG points into a 7 night Marriott stay + 120K Southwest points + Companion Pass for 2 years (2017) (19:43) - Marriott Travel Packages (2018) (23:40) - Iberia 90K (2018) (27:54) - Conservation International 240 AA miles per dollar (2021) (34:40) - Amex 20% transfer bonus to Hawaiian Airlines (2024) (39:28) - SAS: Fly 15 SkyTeam, earn 1M SAS Miles (2024) (44:50) - JetBlue 25/25 (2025) (48:42) - Kate Spade 250X via British Airways portal (2026) Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Visiting New York City without breaking the bank \| Coffee Break Ep121 \| 9-2-26	02 sept. 2026	00:32:34
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler New York is an expensive city. Today, we'll talk about tips to make it more affordable using points, credit card benefits, and smart stacking. (00:52) - Flights: No one-size-fits-all option here, but consider... (05:47) - Favorite points hotel options (17:47) - Saving money on stuff to do (20:21) - Saving money with credit card benefits (27:24) - Tips for what to do while you're there Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	How can I maximize my bookings through The Edit by Chase Travel℠? \| Question of the Week Ep14 \| 8-31-26	31 août 2026	00:08:16
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler How can I maximize my bookings through The Edit by Chase Travel℠? Reader Rob wrote in with three questions about this. (00:16) - What is The Edit by Chase Travel℠? (01:16) - Does the person on the card have to stay on the property, or can they book for someone else? (02:48) - Can you book before December 31st to take advantage of the stackable credits for select chains, but USE the credits for a hotel stay into the following year if you “pay now”? (06:32) - Do you lose the free breakfast if you book back-to-back stays of 4 nights but 2 separate reservations? Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Hidden Gem Awards \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep373 \| 8-28-26	28 août 2026	01:00:28
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In this episode, we'll hear about the "best ever" Hyatt Place breakfast, we'll talk about where Greg should go after Berlin, and share lesser-known sweetspot awards like flights to Europe from 90 points and Scandinavian hotels from 500 points! Giant Mailbag (01:08) - Paul asks: "Is there another way to status match Flying Blue elite status or do we have to wait until it opens up again for US residents?" See our Shortcuts to Flying Blue elite status here (03:19) - Kevin writes in with some miles and points success stories This Week in Points (05:12) - Rove enhancements (out on Friday 8/28) (09:11) - Citi 25% transfer bonus to LHW through 9/19 Personal Points (10:41) - LH multi-city via Aeroplan (13:25) - Hyatt Place AMS (16:51) - Greg's Berlin trip Main Event: Hidden Gem Awards (21:24) - Lodging (21:51) - Cottages.com for 15K Wyndham points/bedroom/night (23:14) - Preferred Hotels starting at 20K Choice/night (25:59) - Nordic / Scandinavian hotels w/ Finnair Avios Learn how to use Finnair Avios to book Scandinavian hotels here (30:15) - Flights: Star Alliance flights for 3.5K econ, 7K biz (under 600 miles) (32:27) - Air France business class to Europe with NO surcharges (36:06) - British Airways business or first class with low surcharges (43:06) - Royal Air Maroc: US to Morocco for 17.5K econ, 50.5K Biz w/ Finnair Avios (45:38) - Use Virgin Atlantic miles to fly around Europe and Northern Africa starting at 4K one-way Learn more about Air France KLM across Europe here (50:02) - North America to Europe for 90 points via Lufthansa Miles & More (55:54) - Delta short-haul 5K Flying Blue miles Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	United Polaris awards wide-open to cardholders & elites \| Coffee Break Ep120 \| 8-26-26	26 août 2026	00:27:05
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Just by having the right United credit card or elite status, you'll have wide-open United Polaris award availability! Read about United's amazing cardholder award availability here (01:20) - Polaris (02:00) - Define Saver (02:38) - Better Saver Polaris availability for both cardholders & elites, and additional award discounts require card (03:31) - Example North America to Europe (05:38) - Research and findings (15:12) - The April cliff...what is it and why is April significant? (17:07) - Nick & Greg's thoughts/analysis: Is this a one-time thing to get people to sign up for United cards? (22:02) - Is Nick going to jump on the United cardholder bandwagon? Learn more about the Best United Cards here: https://frequentmiler.com/best-united-card/ Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	How to handle Citi cards in 2-player mode now that point sharing is dead? \| Question of the Week Ep13 \| 8-24-26	24 août 2026	00:11:12
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler How to handle Citi cards in 2-player mode now that point sharing is dead? "GH" wrote in with this question recently, wondering: Paraphrasing and simplifying: My old plan was to keep a single Strata Premier card for myself, a Double Cash card for player 2, and multiple Custom Cash cards across both. Now that Player 2 can't move points to me, I need a new plan. Should Player 2 get a Strata Premier card to enable 1-to-1 point transfers, or should we give up on Player 2 holding any Citi ThankYou cards? (00:53) - What does "player 2" mean and what does this question mean? (03:09) - What is the best 2-player strategy for earning Citi points? (06:46) - What is the best 2-player strategy for earning Citi points if you're starting from scratch? Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Shortcuts to Flying Blue elite status \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep372 \| 8-21-26	21 août 2026	01:25:24
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler On today's episode, we'll talk about the many ways to shortcut Flying Blue elite status and why you might want to. Giant Mailbag (00:50) - Credit cards we're considering \| Coffee Break Ep118 - Credit cards we're considering Crazy Thing: Citi - Greg announce (03:32) - Citi ThankYou Mastercard Learn about Citi's retailer cards here Mattress Running the Numbers (09:12) - 50X AA miles for Stand Up for Cancer donation Learn more about this here Bonvoyed - Feeling Blue about Flying Blue? (14:49) - Flying Blue to increase Standard award prices and introduce Light and Flex award fares Learn about Flying Blue's Light and Flex award fares here This Week in Points (23:42) - Greg- Bilt adds new Bilt Cash Options (Learn how to use Bilt Cash to book Blade rides here) (34:08) - Tim - Cardpointers: automatic "smart add" feature for Amex Offer priority (https://frequentmiler.com/workarounds-for-adding-amex-offers-to-multiple-cards-appear-to-be-dead/Learn some workarounds for adding Amex offers to multiple cards which appear to be dead here: ) Personal Points (38:16) - Atmos 100K companion cert caveats (Learn all about Atmos Companion Awards here: https://frequentmiler.com/atmos-global-companion-awards-guide/) Main Event: Shortcuts to Flying Blue elite status (52:35) - Learn shortcuts to Flying Blue elite status here: https://frequentmiler.com/elite-status-via-the-air-france-klm-credit-card/ And why is Flying Blue status interesting? (58:57) - How Flying Blue elite status works (1:03:29) - Normal way to earn XPs (1:09:24) - Shortcuts Learn about Flying Blue Status Match (US residents version) here: https://frequentmiler.com/flying-blue-status-match-for-us-residents/ Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Best and worst of Alaska's Atmos Rewards \| Coffee Break Ep119 \| 8-19-26	19 août 2026	00:22:09
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler With Tim based in Seattle, he's very familiar with the Alaska Atmos Rewards program. Today he's joining Greg to talk about some of the pros and cons of the program. (00:54) - Pro: Free to move points to others with an Atmos Summit card or a Hawaiian card (01:26) - Pro: Free stopover on most one-way awards. (02:14) - Pro: Award changes are free and easy (02:33) - Pro: Excellent award chart sweet spots (short-haul US, US-Oceania/Asia/South America, intra-Alaska). (04:06) - Pro: Relatively easy to acquire elite status (05:39) - Pro: Award flights booked through Alaska can earn status points based on distance flown, including partner awards (09:05) - Pro: Many partners beyond oneworld (11:20) - Pro: Various companion certificates can be very useful (15:34) - Con: Less robust route network than competitors like Delta, United, and American. (15:34) - Con: Atmos still doesn’t allow awards with multiple partners outside of American, British Airways, and Finnair (although more are expected to be added this year). (20:25) - Con: $20 Partner award booking fee unless you have Summit card Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	What's so great about Air Canada Aeroplan? \| Question of the Week Ep12 \| 8-17-26	17 août 2026	00:22:22
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler What's so great about Air Canada Aeroplan? We received this question from Dana: I have 300,000 points stuck in Aeroplan, and they will expire in the next year. Instead of transferring more points in or purchasing points to keep them active, I just want to use them. I would like to use them for business class flights to or from Europe. I am flexible on positioning from ORD or the West Coast and want to just get anywhere in Europe. I would even do premium economy on the way back to the US. Most of the "good" redemptions I see are flying through the Middle East or other ridiculous itineraries that would take 18-24 hours to get to Europe. And more direct flights are on Air Canada metal and hundreds of thousands of points. Not worth it in my mind. I am only looking for 2 seats. I like to book a year out, but even looking close in, there's nothing. Everyone always says Aeroplan is a great program, but I'm not seeing it. What am I missing? (01:43) - Advantages of Air Canada Aeroplan: (03:13) - Disadvantages of Air Canada Aeroplan (04:46) - What is Dana missing (05:15) - Use an award search tool Learn about award search tools here (16:22) - Set award alerts Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	US Bank's Mysterious Transferable Points \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep371 \| 8-14-26	14 août 2026	01:23:17
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler On today's episode, we'll share a reminder to check your credit card travel portal if you're renting a car. Nick will share tips about renewing passports, and we'll see how the Altitude Reserve has added 4 - no, 2 transfer partners. Giant Mailbag (01:26) - Podcast failed to download Friday evening and most of Saturday, so now we're experimenting with a release schedule to drop podcasts during working hours (04:39) - Mitsu: Regarding booking rental cars through CREDIT CARD portals Mattress Running the Numbers: IHG (11:09) - Targeted IHG promo: Earn double elite night credits (limit 10 bonus elite nights) Read more about this targeted IHG promo here Bonvoyed: Amex Offers (14:31) - Multi-card trick appears to be dead This Week in Points (18:24) - Miles, points, and more changes (19:23) - Amex adds 350+ FHR/THC added in 2026 (20::58) - Select Tock restaurants available for Amex Resy credits as of 9/15 (23:16) - Avios.com award calendar Read more about the Avios award calendar here Personal Points (28:25) - Greg: Overcoming Virgin award booking snafu (34:38) - Nick: trying to book a cruise cabin for a family member (38:06) - Greg: SAS award booking snafu (46:43) - Nick: Online passport renewal data point (50:05) - Read about rental car loyalty programs here Main Event: US Bank's Mysterious Transferable Points (51:56) - Altitude Reserve card is a collectible, but has been a bit of a dud until now (52:54) - Altitude Reserve Before Dec 15 2025 (56:25) - After Dec 15, 2025 (1:02:54) - Altitude Reserve Now (1:13:54) - Questions for Nick and Greg Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Credit cards we're considering \| Coffee Break Ep118 \| 8-11-26	11 août 2026	00:21:03
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Even though we have lots of credit cards, we've always got our eyes on a few more. In today's episode, we'll talk about some of the credit cards we've been keeping on our radar. (00:58) - Hidden gem credit cards Greg's considering (08:28) - Other cards Greg's considering Read how to maximize your Hilton cards (with upgrades and downgrades) here (11:42) - Nick's nearer-term credit card considerations (19:45) - Cards Nick is considering from Hidden Gems Credit Cards podcast Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	How would you rank premium economy cabins? \| Ask Us Anything \| Ep89 \| 8-5-26	10 août 2026	00:54:39
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler How do you handle travel when you are traveling with friends who don’t play the game? How would you rank the premium economy cabins? We answered these questions and more on the Ask Us Anything hosted live on YouTube on August 5th, 2026. (00:46) - How do you handle travel when you are traveling with friends who don’t play the game? Do you adjust your plans to cheaper options to make it more affordable for them? Do you cover any portion of their travel with your points? (05:31) - Excluding automobile coverage, must one use a specific credit card to get non-automobile insurance coverage? (i.e., which credit cards can you get travel coverage just by having the card? Read our resource about travel protections here: https://frequentmiler.com/ultra-premium-credit-card-travel-insurance/ (06:55) - Which credit cards have certificate/award claw-backs if you have a merchandise return credit to your card? Hotel credits? What about other cards? (09:18) - How far out does your card strategy for new SUB’s typically go into the future? And do you stray if a shiny big bonus appears on one you did not plan for? (13:01) - What is your breakeven point if it's only 15K economy but 75K business, would you go with economy for 60K savings? Why did you choose your answer? (18:28) - With the changes in the Chase Ink train and Chase being more flexible with accepting applications after 5/24, I've gotten 2, is it time to rethink the 5/24 strategy? How do you navigate being over it? (20:33) - Looking to spoil my wife and 3 teens with a business class long flight. I'll fly from anywhere to anywhere. I simply () want 5 business class seats on one long flight. Where would you look? (25:34) - Should I apply for Robinhood Gold? I got an invite via Credit Karma (27:23) - For the new challenge announcement on today's Coffee Break, where do we submit listener ideas? Check out our Wild Card announcement here (https://frequentmiler.com/the-2026-team-challenge-wild-card-coffee-break-ep117-8-4-26/) and comment your own ideas for obstacles and power-ups here (https://frequentmiler.com/2026-wild-card-challenge-help-us-design-our-obstacles-and-power-up-decks) (29:41) - Who spent too much time at Costco today? (32:16) - I don't see you guys talking much about sweet spots to South America (more specifically Brazil). I am struggling to find good routes with reasonable amount of points… Read more here: https://frequentmiler.com/best-ways-to-get-to-south-america-using-points-and-miles/ (36:28) - How would you rank the premium economy cabins you have used? Who has the best upgrade from regular economy, and why? Which have the closest to business class experience? (41:15) - Is Nick's background real? Just saw cars passing by (42:26) - Do y'all ever get credit card fatigue? I've been churning on and off for a couple of years. Wanting to just sit tight for a bit. (48:18) - Thinking of this having to fly with a stroller wild card, what was the weirdest or most cumbersome thing you had to fly with? Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “swappin’ back n’ forth” by up @ night Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Introducing the re-couponified AAdvantage® Executive card \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep370 \| 8-7-26	07 août 2026	00:58:02
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In today's podcast episode, a listener leverages a tip from last year's team travel challenge to book Virgin Atlantic premium economy for less; we look at a crazy use of AI, and analyze the updated AAdvantage® Executive card. Announcement (01:07) - The 2026 Team Challenge: Wild Card! (See our Coffee Break Ep117 travel challenge announcment here: https://frequentmiler.com/the-2026-team-challenge-wild-card-coffee-break-ep117-8-4-26/) Submit your ideas for obstacles and power-ups here: https://frequentmiler.com/2026-wild-card-challenge-help-us-design-our-obstacles-and-power-up-decks Giant Mailbag (04:56) - Peuv leveraged a Virgin Atlantic premium economy tip learned from last year's 100K Vacay travel challenge Learn more about last year's 100K Vacay challenge here: https://frequentmiler.com/annual-team-challenges/#100K Card News (08:58) - Discover cardholder promo: Earn 15% cashback on first stay booked on Capital One Travel (up to $200 cashback) (10:04) - Capital One adding a $100 hotel credit to the Venture Rewards card? Crazy Thing: FM's Payroll Processor (13:12) - Here's a professional response that acknowledges the question, lets the client know you're looking into it, and buys you some time... Awards, Points, and More (15:56) - Roame now supports EVA (only 1 passenger) See how to book EVA awards here: https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-book-eva-air-infinity-mileagelands-awards/ (19:59) - Earn 50K Alaska Atmos Rewards points when getting a mortgage through Rate.com Learn more about this here: https://frequentmiler.com/earn-50k-alaska-airlines-miles-when-getting-mortgage-through-rate-com/ (21:47) - Accor Gold and Platinum members can status match Main Event: Introducing the re-couponified AA Executive card (26:00) - Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive changes launch August 23rd: https://frequentmiler.com/citi-aadvantage-executive-card-changes-are-coming-higher-fee-more-benefits/ (26:28) - What's not changing (27:56) - Increased annual fee (29:32) - New coupons (37:28) - Increased Lyft credits (38:59) - Increased AA portal earnings (41:44) - More Loyalty Point Boosts (43:30) - Elite Status (51:17) - World Legend rather than World Elite (52:54) - Final thoughts Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	The 2026 Team Challenge: Wild Card! \| Coffee Break Ep117 \| 8-4-26	04 août 2026	00:18:19
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Every year, the FM team does a team challenge where we compete to see who can make their points & miles go farthest. We're calling this year's challenge "The Wild Card Challenge". In today's episode we'll give you the high-level overview of what it's about! (Don't worry, we'll give you even more granular details soon!) (00:41) - What are the FM team challenges Learn more about past challenges here: https://frequentmiler.com/annual-team-challenges/ (01:24) - Why do we do these? (03:39) - Who's participating this year (04:41) - Introducing: The Wild Card Challenge (08:08) - High level about this challenge (10:48) - How do the contestants feel? Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Which Marriott Bonvoy transfer partners are best? \| Question of the Week Ep11 \| 8-2-26	02 août 2026	00:21:51
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Which Marriott Bonvoy transfer partners are best? Podcast listener "FlyerDad" asked us this question recently, writing: Marriott points are truly the most valuable airline currency given the number of programs they transfer to. But I have never heard you guys discuss who their most valuable transfer partners are, as you do for all the other transferable currencies. Would you consider a podcast on the "forgotten" but most valuable transferable reward points in the game? We’ve been answering a reader or listener question at the end of each Frequent Miler on the Air podcast episode. Now, we’ve turned the question of the week into its own weekly episode. Tune in every Sunday at 5pm for our Question of the Week podcast. And if you have your own question you’d like to submit, you can send it to mailbag@frequentmiler.com. Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	How to Amass Amex Points \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep369 \| 7-31-26	31 juil. 2026	00:56:01
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In today's episode we'll talk about how Amex has added a valuable new hotel partner, Seats.aero has added useful new tools, and we'll discuss the many ways to amass a Membership Rewards fortune. Giant Mailbag (00:59) - Ross: Another hidden gem card? Bonvoyed: JetBlue, Air Canada, LifeMiles (04:51) - JetBlue & Air Canada add basic fares to premium cabins (06:27) - Your Lifemiles+ free award changes/cancellations may end sooner than you think Awards, Points, and More (08:55) - Amex adds new transfer partner LHW (16:28) - Philippine Airlines flights now bookable with Alaska Atmos Rewards (Read more about this here: https://frequentmiler.com/philippine-airlines-flights-now-bookable-with-alaska-atmos-rewards-book-biz-class-from-75k-points/) (17:48) - United transcontinental business class from 27K miles for cardholders (19:14) - Seats.aero has added a few new tools for Pro members (24:00) - Nick's experience with The Edit by Chase Travel℠ Main Event: How to Amass Amex Points (26:26) - Amex Membership Rewards are suddenly interesting again (31:03) - Sign Up Bonuses (41:26) - Two Player Mode (43:55) - Read about multi-referrals here: https://frequentmiler.com/maximizing-value-from-amex-multi-referrals/ (48:31) - Amex offers Learn about Cardpointers here (https://frequentmiler.com/cardpointers/) or Savewise here (50:01) - Rakuten Shopping Learn about Rakuten referrals here: https://frequentmiler.com/rakuten-best-ever-5k-membership-rewards-50-referral-bonus-for-both-sides/ (53:21) - Category bonuses Get 15% of ESIM from our sponsor Saily This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Amex Platinum vs. Robinhood Platinum \| Coffee Break Ep116 \| 7-28-26	28 juil. 2026	00:25:18
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler The Robinhood Platinum card now live for invited members, so in today's episode, we'll see how it compares with another Platinum card, the American Express Platinum Card®. (00:17) - Robinhood Platinum card is now live for invited members... (00:50) - Here are some of the basic details of the card (01:22) - How is this card different from the American Express Platinum Card®? (03:27) - 5X categories (04:28) - Airport lounge access (04:49) - Elite status (16:56) - How is the Robinhood Platinum Card better? (19:11) - How is the American Express Platinum Card® better? Get 15% of ESIM from our sponsor Saily This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	How do you decide whether to buy flights with cash or miles? \| Question of the Week Ep10 \| 7-26-26	26 juil. 2026	00:24:12
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler How do you decide whether to buy flights with cash or miles? Follower Owen asked this question recently, saying: "On the podcast you guys often say that you rarely book flights with cash. I find that, especially when booking domestic flights, I often can’t get amazing value from my points (let’s say <1.5cpp). As a result, I tend to hoard my points for those big outsized value redemptions (international business class, Park Hyatt stays, etc.) so I end up booking the flight with cash. How do you think about these situations, especially when you have less flexibility around dates? (Let’s say you’re traveling for an event, or just traveling during peak season). How much do you value the extra flexibility that comes with booking with points? At what point do you decide you have plenty of points so redeeming for lower value isn’t the end of the world?" We’ve been answering a reader or listener question at the end of each Frequent Miler on the Air podcast episode. Now, we’ve turned the question of the week into its own weekly episode. Tune in every Sunday at 5pm for our Question of the Week podcast. And if you have your own question you’d like to submit, you can send it to mailbag@frequentmiler.com. Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Hidden Gem Credit Cards \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep368 \| 7-24-26	24 juil. 2026	01:33:44
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In today's podcast episode we'll talk about Seats.aero enhancements, The Amex Green mystery, and credit cards that are rarely talked about but worth a look. Giant Mailbag (00:46) - Mea Culpa re Marriott/Japan Airlines Card News (05:11) - Amex Green card intrigue Crazy Thing (10:44) - Nick's Bilt hotel experience Awards, Points, and More (15:29) - Chase offers: new terms about "abuse", which you can read about here (17:56) - Transfer up to 60K points between Wyndham & Caesars through 9/11/26, which you can read about here (21:24) - Citi may be adding JAL as a transfer partner, which you can read about here (24:57) - Singapore Airlines now requires minimum of 1K miles to search for award flights which you can read about here (27:49) - Qatar walks back restrictions for some elites, which you can read about here (29:30) - Delta status match terms/condition I didn't know about (31:50) - Seats.aero enhancements, which you can read more about here (36:59) - Gondola updates Main Event: Hidden Gem Credit Cards (40:27) - Reader Elliot gave us a request: "I've got a number of favorite credit cards that I virtually never hear talked about" (41:12) - The favorites rarely discussed and what we think (51:08) - Rakuten American Express® Card and what we think (59:00) - The Wells Fargo Choice Privileges Mastercard Select and what we think (1:02:07) - Casino cards like the MGM Rewards World Elite Mastercard®, Unity™ by Hard Rock Mastercard® Credit Card and Caesars Rewards® Visa Signature® Card (and what we think) (1:09:02) - Which hidden gem cards did Elliot miss? (1:10:36) - Can we name any other card that gives you 2 free checked bags? Read more about free checked bags via credit cards here (1:15:52) - Others? (01:32:57) - Check out our Best Offers Page for a database of credit card offers here Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Greg's choice: saving points from a Wells Fargo shutdown \| Coffee Break Ep115 \| 7-21-26	21 juil. 2026	00:23:45
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Greg's been thinking through how to handle the recent shutdown of his Wells Fargo checking account. Worried the shutdown would eventually impact his credit cards, he had to make a decision about where to transfer his points... (01:30) - Greg's Wells Fargo shutdown (08:54) - Reader tip (13:03) - Nick's advice (16:20) - Greg's decision Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Does being an authorized user affect your eligibility for a new credit card offer? \| Question of the Week Ep9 \| 7-19-26	19 juil. 2026	00:08:49
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Does being an authorized user affect your eligibility for a new credit card offer? Reader Mike emailed us with this question: My wife has the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card and I am an authorized user. Now, I want to apply for the Chase Sapphire Preferred card for myself. Is being an authorized user on the card you want to apply for have any consequences? We’ve been answering a reader or listener question at the end of each Frequent Miler on the Air podcast episode. Now, we’ve turned the question of the week into its own weekly episode. Tune in every Sunday at 5pm for our Question of the Week podcast. And if you have your own question you’d like to submit, you can send it to mailbag@frequentmiler.com. Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Turn hotel status into airline status \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep367 \| 7-17-26	17 juil. 2026	01:20:39
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler In today's episode, we'll talk about how Wells Fargo shut down Greg's checking account, we'll ask "Did Marriott devalue again?", and we'll look at the many ways to turn hotel status into airline status. Giant Mailbag (01:12) - Rick shares a note about Bilt Cash at Walgreens Card News (04:25) - Chase Freedom Flex® dropping foreign transaction fees, but also losing cell protection Crazy Thing (06:22) - Capital One Shopping: 95% back at Instacart (new members) Awards, Points, and More (12:05) - Rove adds Qantas Read more about Rove adding Qantas as a transfer partner here (13:30) - Choice points on sale through July 20 (14:21) - Greg's Wells Fargo shutdown Learn more about Greg's Wells Fargo shutdown here (24:58) - Nick's Sapphire Reserve® Exclusive Tables Blunders (31:07) - FHR Las Vegas observances (35:10) - Marriott devaluation... or not? Read Stephen's thoughts about the supposed devaluation here (37:43) - How to apply Marriott free night certs to upgraded rooms Learn more about this here Main Event: Turn hotel status into airline status (42:29) - First up: New Airline + Hotel partnerships (42:58) - Read more about the Hyatt / Aeroplan partnership here (53:00) - Read more about Marriott and Japan Airlines here: https://frequentmiler.com/marriott-japan-airlines-launch-deeper-partnership-earn-bonus-points-get-status-match-earn-status-points-more/ (1:01:00) - Key hotel/airline match-ups (and other hotel/airline tie-ups)... (1:16:35) - Special topic: Airline hotel portals Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Marriott Bonvoy pros and cons \| Coffee Break Ep114 \| 7-14-26	14 juil. 2026	00:18:26
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Bonvoy is the program we love... to hate. Having said that, we'd be lying if we said there were no redeeming features of this program. In this episode, we'll talk about the pros and cons of the Marriott Bonvoy program. (00:58) - Pros (06:53) - Cons (11:50) - See our resource (or "matrix") for determining which Marriott card you may be eligible for here Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	"It's a credit card and it works" \| Ask Us Anything Ep88 \| 7-8-26	12 juil. 2026	01:06:35
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler What are our favorite USA destinations? If you go for the AA elite status as your Hyatt milestone benefit, when does the AA status expire? We answered these questions and more on the Ask Us Anything hosted live on YouTube on June 3rd, 2026. (00:43) - Why does BILT still have “Coming Soon” for Blacklane and Blade BILT Cash redemptions after nearly 6 months? Sure feels like many of us are gonna have a glut of expiring, unusable BILT Cash at year’s end… sigh (03:04) - What do you guys do for internet access on your phones when traveling abroad…pay for international service through your carrier, purchase a VPN, something else I maybe don’t know about? Haha See our GigSky posts here: https://frequentmiler.com/tag/gigsky/ (11:41) - Curious what each of you would say are your top favorite Hyatt stays? I want to book a couple hotels for next year before Hyatt continues their devaluation rollout. (17:44) - A question on credit card travel protections. If you use different credit cards for different parts of your trip (e.g., one for flights, another one for hotels, maybe a third for car rentals) (19:04) - I’m now at 4/24, so I want to apply for the 100K Chase Sapphire Preferred card for myself. Is being an authorized user on the card you want to apply for have any negative consequences? (20:25) - How does the Hyatt Milestone (100+ nights) reward for AA Platinum status for a year work? Does it give you LP to top you up to Platinum status? What’s the process after that to earn Platinum Pro? (21:13) - Sorry if this has been asked before…..is there going to be another live podcast?? I really want to go if there will be another one! My vote is Omaha ;) Center of the country and not too far for anyone (22:10) - Do you have any advice for upgrading from Club World to First class on British Airways? Can it be done with Avios, or cash? You guys are the best!!! Thanks for all you do. (24:08) - On your latest coffee break, if you go for the AA elite status on your Hyatt milestone, when does the AA expire? Find our recent coffee break here: https://frequentmiler.com/which-hyatt-milestone-reward-should-i-pick-coffee-break-ep113-7-7-26/ (27:08) - Do you have any tips for how to get a Business card NLL offer from Amex? (31:40) - Then my question would be what are your favorite USA destinations? Wouldn’t that be a fantastic podcast? See Stephen's post about underrated US destinations here: https://frequentmiler.com/6-underrated-states-to-visit-for-a-domestic-vacation/ (36:30) - What’s the summer /2026 challenge ? Can we get India involved as a destination/layover /Stopover? (36:52) - For Stephen and Tim — looking for their thoughts on the BILT ecosystem currently and how they use the new 2.0 cards See the podcast episode where Greg and Nick shared their thoughts on Bilt here: https://frequentmiler.com/bilt-palladium-review-6-month-checkpoint-frequent-miler-on-the-air-ep364-6-26-26/ (43:46) - Have any of you personally interacted with EES yet? How long was the delay leaving the eu? Is it less when leaving a smaller airport on a direct flight to a US destination? (46:13) - Would love to hear the teams experience with the Atmos Summit card and reaching status. (50:00) - Greg, what's the update for the Citi saga? (51:29) - Do you use any app to manage and monitor all the credit cards and their benefits or just use excel sheet? (56:00) - Stephen did you try the clam pizza? Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “swappin’ back n’ forth” by up @ night Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	The best credit card travel credits \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep366 \| 7-10-26	10 juil. 2026	00:51:12
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler On today's podcast episode, if you couldn't get enough of Basic Economy, don't worry! Delta has introduced Basic Business. We'll share a potential trick for getting 25,000 AA miles for free, and talk about Credit card Travel Credits: which are worthwhile and which are worthless. Giant Mailbag (01:10) - Joaquin says, "One thing I haven’t considered before listening to you was to monitor the price of a hotel or flight after booking to cancel and rebook it if the price drops." Bonvoyed (07:40) - Delta introduces Basic Business (and Premium Select, and First) Awards, Points, and More (13:54) - Delta Stays is better than Greg thought Read more about Delta Stays here (17:23) - Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card OpenTables (20:38) - Hilton expands partnership with Explora Journeys (luxury cruises) The best credit card travel credits (23:27) - Many premium cards come with travel credits to justify their annual fees. We rank them... (24:31) - General travel credits (26:16) - Airfare & Airline Fee credits (32:03) - Hotel credits Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Which Hyatt Milestone Reward should I pick? \| Coffee Break Ep113 \| 7-7-26	07 juil. 2026	00:17:16
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Greg earned a 3-night Hyatt milestone reward, which means he's faced with a choice of what to pick. He's got 90 days to pick that reward, but he's whittled away a lot of that time and now just has a few weeks left to decide. Which Hyatt Milestone Reward should I pick? (01:22) - 30 Night milestone rewards (02:10) - Pick One: 2K Next Stay Award (03:30) - Club Access Awards (2) (04:22) - $25 FIND Experience Credit (06:14) - 2 Preferred Seat Coupons on American Airlines (07:19) - What should Greg pick? (10:23) - Which Hyatt milestone rewards are best at each milestone? Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Do we book speculatively, hoping for a schedule change? \| Question of the Week Ep8 \| 7-5-26	05 juil. 2026	00:08:32
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler Do we book speculatively, hoping for a schedule change? Reader "LR" sent us the following question: "I was intrigued by a recent post about schedule changes in another group that I follow. This particular person noted that anytime United or AA makes a schedule change of any type, you can change your flight at no additional cost to your preferred route. Sometimes you may even have flexibility within several days of the original flight. So my question is, is this a tactic that you all use if you book flights far in advance? Pick the cheapest award price from one city to another, and then hope for a schedule change in order to change it to your preferred route? And then on an even more complicated note- have any of you had success following a schedule change, of changing from a flight in “first class (non-lay-flat seats)” to a different flight on “Delta One” or AA’s “flagship business” or United Polaris (etc, all of which have lay-flat seats)? I assume these are considered different classes and would require a fee upgrade. I’m trying to book flights home from Hawaii next March, and I’m wondering if this kind of tactic may work." We’ve been answering a reader or listener question at the end of each Frequent Miler on the Air podcast episode. Now, we’ve turned the question of the week into its own weekly episode. Tune in every Sunday at 5pm for our Question of the Week podcast. And if you have your own question you’d like to submit, you can send it to mailbag@frequentmiler.com. Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	12 things to know about Hyatt's devaluation \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep365 \| 7-3-26	03 juil. 2026	00:50:49
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler On today's episode, we'll see how the 5x airline card saga continues, Nick will give us more reasons to use the Southwest app, we'll hear some exciting news about Frontier, and we'll dive deep into Hyatt's devaluation. Giant Mailbag (01:06) - More comments about our comments about there being "No airline cards offer 5x or more" Crazy Thing: Chase (03:41) - Points Boost is sometimes different between Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card & Sapphire Reserve for Business℠ Card Bonvoyed (07:22) - Lifemiles+ eliminates free cancellation benefit for new subscribers Awards, Points, and More (11:35) - Alaska Wallet funds can now be used for AS companion fares again (12:20) - Rove adds Frontier as a transfer partner Read more about Frontier being added as a Rove transfer partner here (15:30) - Nick's Southwest notes Main Event: 12 things to know about Hyatt's devaluation (21:18) - Hyatt recently introduced new award charts. We dug into the numbers... Read more about the changed value of Hyatt points here (22:20) - 1. Median point value dropped ~10% (23:10) - 2. Cherry-picked value dropped <10% (24:34) - 3. It could have been much worse (26:31) - 4. It will probably be much worse next year (27:46) - 5. Points more valuable with certain brands (30:37) - 6. Points less valuable with certain brands (32:14) - 7. Points are less valuable at high end (34:27) - 8. Points are more valuable at low end (35:54) - 9. Many cities offer excellent value (39:45) - 10. Singapore offers surprisingly poor value: 1.0 (40:47) - 11. Worst and best values barely budged (41:52) - 12. Mr & Mrs Smith not as bad as we thought Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Speculative Bilt transfer bonuses \| Coffee Break Ep112 \| 6-30-26	30 juin 2026	00:29:56
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler When it comes to transfer bonuses, conventional wisdom has been not to transfer unless there's specific use in mind. But sometimes the bonus is too good to ignore. Speculative Bilt transfer bonuses (00:16) - Conventional wisdom: don’t transfer without specific use in mind. But... (01:19) - With Bilt 2.0, earning hundreds of thousands of Bilt points is not so difficult anymore (04:11) - So which bonuses are worth doing for airline programs? Transfer bonuses where Greg & Nick disagree (or both said maybe) Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Air France-KLM Flying Blue British Airways Avios Avianca LifeMiles Cathay Pacific Cathay Japan Airlines JAL Mileage Bank Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Transfer bonuses Greg & Nick would NOT do Etihad Guest Emirates Skywards TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go (26:15) - So which bonuses are worth doing for hotel programs? Transfer bonuses Greg & Nick would definitely do Hyatt Accor Transfer bonuses where Greg & Nick disagree (or both said maybe) I Prefer Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	How are you using AI for trip planning? \| Question of the Week Ep7 \| 6-27-26	28 juin 2026	00:18:13
This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler How are you using AI for trip planning? Frequent Miler reader Jared wrote in: I recently asked the Bilt Neighborhood Concierge AI which weekends a particular Bilt Home Away from Home hotel (Kimpton Journeyman) had availability between August and December. It gave a useful and seemingly accurate response. Have you recently found any other good uses of Bilt's or other AIs? We’ve been answering a reader or listener question at the end of each Frequent Miler on the Air podcast episode. Now, we’ve turned the question of the week into its own weekly episode. Tune in every Sunday at 5pm for our Question of the Week podcast. And if you have your own question you’d like to submit, you can send it to mailbag@frequentmiler.com. Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world’s best travel podcasts. Explore more at Voyascape.com. For advertising or sponsorship opportunities on this show and across the network, email advertising@voyascape.com or you can find more information at Voyascape.com/advertsing.
	Bilt Palladium Review: 6 month checkpoint \| Frequent Miler on the Air Ep364 \| 6-26-26	26 juin 2026	01:25:31
In today's episode, we'll talk about Qatar's crazy new rules if you want to redeem rewards for friends & family, how Wyndham is going to devalue (but it might not be so bad), and we'll take a look back at the first 6 months of Bilt 2.0: The good, the bad, and where things stand now. Bilt Palladium Review: 6-month checkpointGiant Mailbag (01:13) - Gary Leff has a couple of minor interesting notes on our recent ‘question of the week’ podcast episode Find our recent Question of the Week episode here Crazy Thing: Qatar Airways Privilege Club (07:51) - Want to use Qatar Avios to book flights for friends or family? Good luck! Read more about this Qatar Avios restriction here Bonvoyed by Wyndham (15:36) - Learn more about Wyndham Rewards new award pricing here Awards, Points, and More (19:43) - Learn about Bilt adding I Prefer 1:2 here (23:24) - Learn more about the Hyatt / Under Canvas Promo: 15% points rebate on award stays here (28:59) - Necker Island has new award pricing: 250K per night for 2 adults (35:08) - Random tips from Nick Main Event: Bilt Palladium Review: 6 month checkpoint (41:16) - Background: Bilt changed card issuers and moved from 1 card to 3 (51:39) - Palladium card details (54:10) - Bilt Elite Status details (55:41) - Bilt Cash details (1:01:48) - Nick's Review (1:10:49) - Greg's Review Subscribe and Follow Visit https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/ to get updated on in-depth points and miles content like this, and don’t forget to like and follow us on social media. Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder

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