10 Best and 5 Worst uses of ThankYou Rewards | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep275 | 10-4-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 5 October 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Last week we talked about how to earn Citi ThankYou Rewards, but now we'd like to discuss some of the best (and worst) ways you can use your Citi ThankYou Rewards.
Catch last week's episode about accumulating Citi ThankYou Rewards here.
(01:17) - In a recent podcast Greg stated that United hadn’t before offered discounted business class awards to elites. One listener writes in with a correction that Platinum and 1K have had expanded access to saver awards in business class.
(04:06) - How to evaluate credit card welcome bonus offers
Compare all the best credit card sign up offers here.
(11:57) - Counting down the best uses of ThankYou Rewards from least favorite to most favorite...
Learn more about the Citi Premier card here.
(13:40) - 10. Transfer to Wyndham to book Vacasa, Cottages, etc.
(15:30) - 9. Transfer to Emirates. Book Emirates 1st class for 102K (JFK to Milan, or Newark to Athens)
Learn how to find and book Emirates first class awards here.
(17:19) - 8.Transfer to Turkish to book 10K one-way to/from Hawaii
(18:12) - 7.Virgin: fly AF/KLM Business class to Europe starting at 48,500; also intra-Europe as low as 4K
(19:55) - 6.Transfer to Avianca LifeMiles to book business class to Europe for 70K without surcharges (LifeMiles+)
(22:11) - 5.Transfer to Choice 1 to 2. Book Nordic hotels, Japan, Preferred, etc.
(24:19) - 4.Transfer to Leaders Club. Book Leading Hotels of the World for 1.6cpp
(25:24) - 3.Transfer to Qatar Avios. Book Qatar QSuites for 70K
Learn more about finding award space for Qatar QSuites here.
(27:30) - 2.Transfer to EVA Air Infinity MileageLands. One-way business class flights from the US to Taipei cost 75K to 80K miles
(30:27) - 1.Transfer to Qatar Avios then to Iberia. Book Iberia biz class from east coast to Spain for 34K off-peak or 50K peak
(33:42) - BEST USE: Transfer to Flying Blue. Book Air France/KLM biz class to Europe for 50K
Learn more about viewing the Flying Blue award calendar here.
(36:31) - Find out about current point transfer bonuses here.
(40:18) - WORST 5: Counting down from best of the worst to worst of the worst
(40:34) - 5.Buy gift cards
(41:46) - 4.Book travel through Citi
(43:46) - 3. Transfer to AeroMexico (or transfer to ANY program to book low-value award)
(44:59) - 2. Pay with Points (0.8 cpp value)
(46:44) - 1. Shop with Points (usually: 0.8 cpp value)
(49:38) - Do you have tips about rental car programs and how to maximize value with car rental rewards?
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.4 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.5 | Today's main event, 10 best and five worst uses of thank you rewards. |
| 0:32.8 | So last week we talked about how best to earn thank you rewards points. |
| 0:38.4 | Today we're going to tell you which ways we like best to use them and also which ways we recommend not using them because you'll get |
| 0:45.1 | really bad value and nobody wants to get bad value out of their points certainly not anybody |
| 0:49.0 | listening to this show we hope so we're going to help you avoid those poor value ways and tell |
| 0:53.2 | you about the ones that we think are pretty exciting that you should be looking at if you've been collecting city thank you points. If you'd like to skip ahead to that or a different segment or return to it later on, don't forget you can go to the show notes in order to find the timestamps so you can hop ahead or hop back once again and find exactly where you're going for. Also, you'll find links to various things we've written on the blog that are related to today's topics in those show notes. So don't forget to expand that description box. Wherever you're listening or watching this show, don't forget to like it. Give us a thumbs up. Leave us some feedback. Leave us a comment. Let us know. Let us know what you think about whatever it is that we've been talking about today. We'll find out by the end of the show for sure. |
| 1:29.0 | All right. |
| 1:29.5 | Let's drag out this week's giant mail bag. |
| 1:31.7 | All right. |
| 1:32.2 | Today's giant mail comes from Andrew. |
| 1:34.1 | This is in reaction. |
| 1:35.1 | We had talked on a previous show about how we were seeing United discounts for United members that have elite status or credit cards, discounts not just on United's own economy flights, but on business class flights and with partners, which is something I hadn't seen before. And I mentioned that I didn't think that United offered those discounts even on their own flights to card members or elite members. |
| 2:06.8 | And Andrew corrected me. |
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