1 Million Miles in 2 Weeks or Less | Frequent Miler on the air Ep280 | 11-8-24 | Podcast
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The SAS EuroBonus Millionaire promotion may turn out to be 2024's Deal of the Year. We just have to fly 15 SkyTeam airlines before the end of the year to earn 1 million miles. However, if for some reason SAS doesn't honor the promotion, they'll make it to our 2024 naughty list for sure. As you listen to this, Nick, Greg, and Stephen are in the air somewhere in the world trying to complete this promotion in 2 weeks or less. Learn all about the promotion and how we're going about tackling it in today's main event.
(02:43) - A reader has a tip about the US Bank Travel Portal allowing AR point redemptions at 1.5c for Disney theme park tickets, at the Disney retail pricing...
(04:34) - Trick for finding Finnair Avios award availability Read more about our solution for finding Finnair award availability here.
(06:44) - Opportunities to buy miles cheaply (can be great for people who can't get USA credit cards)
(07:27) - Read more about Flying Blue's subscriptions to buy miles here.
(07:50) - Alaska/Hawaiian for 1.25c per mile Read more about buying Alaska / Hawaiian miles for 1.25 c per mile here.
(09:01) -What is Million Mile Madness?
Follow the Million Mile Madness challenge here.
(15:39) - Hi FM Team, do you have any backup or contingency plans in place if one of your flights is cancelled or severely delayed? Good luck on your adventure!
(19:12) - Departing soon? Best wishes to all the contestants
(24:07) - Will there be a live wrap up show for the challenge?
(26:50) - What have you done ahead of time for tight connections during your challenge? Like buying seats in the front of plane, familiarize the airport layout, etc…
(31:11) - Which airline are you most and least looking forward to flying as part of the challenge?
(37:11) - What is each contestant most confident they'll be the "best" at?
(44:29) - I was trying to book a flight on AA using Alaska taking off in 2 days, and their website said that the itinerary is "too close to departure." Is this phantom award space?
(46:05) - You know “player 2” is a common topic among the hobby. Would anyone here consider having their spouse joint one podcast explaining their thoughts of their significant other engaging in the hobby?
(48:06) - My Hyatt globalist expires soon. Can/should I make bookings after expiration and guest of honor myself?
(51:33) - Hawaiian biz card only offers 50k after $4k spend now (used to be 80k after $2k spend) Considering it may go away, should we jump on it now?
(53:41) - Greg, Delta Amex companion certificates terms are very restrictive. Any best practices to find eligible fare class for non-holiday weekends far in advance?
(54:58) - Is their a resource for which Hilton Resorts accept pre-payments?
(55:47) - What is each contestant's personal mission?
(1:00:44) - Does booking yourself a Hyatt GOH earning an additional elite night?
(1:01:59) - Did you get confirmation that SAS will allow you to award the miles to the helpful readers?
(1:02:41) - Do you think you'll run into each other during the challenge?
(1:005:46) - The Amex Platinum card offer requires a lot of spend so one reader made an $11K estimated tax payment to meet that spend, but an agent later told them that kind of expense is not eligible for meeting spend requirement, outlining a few other ineligible expenses as well. Is this true?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.2 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:14.2 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:16.3 | City this week. |
| 0:17.8 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:20.2 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.4 | The main event. |
| 0:22.7 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:27.4 | Today's main event, one million miles in two weeks or less. |
| 0:33.3 | The Scandinavian Airlines Euro bonus millionaire promotion may turn out to be 2024's deal of the year. |
| 0:42.1 | All we have to do is fly 15 Sky Team Airlines before the end of this year during 1 million miles. |
| 0:50.8 | Of course, if something happens and they don't end up, if they don't end up honoring the |
| 0:57.1 | promotion as written, or at least as we understand it, it might not make our best of |
| 1:02.8 | 2024 list. It might make our Bonvoid of the year list and go on the naughty list if that happens. |
| 1:10.5 | Anyway, as you're listening to this, Nick, Stephen, and I are in the air, somewhere in the world trying to complete this challenge in two weeks or less. |
| 1:21.4 | And so, you know, today's main event, what we're going to do is actually play the Ask Us Anything live stream that we recorded |
| 1:30.3 | on Wednesday before we took off. And so as this is publishing, we've literally just left on our |
| 1:41.9 | trips. So anyway, that's what's up for today's main event. Yeah, it's exciting. We'll see what's going on. And if you want to see what's going on, then you should be on Instagram. So you can feel free to pause this right now and just go over to Instagram, follow Frequent Myler on Instagram because that's where the video updates are going to be and the stories and whatnot. It's just far easier to |
| 2:01.0 | tell a travel story that way. We'll obviously be constantly updating the blog also, but I think |
| 2:06.1 | if you really want to kind of come along on the trip, Instagram is the place to follow for this |
| 2:10.2 | type of challenge. So that's what you want to do. Get over there on Instagram and follow us there |
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