10 point-ish things we're most looking forward to | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep288 | 1-3-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 4 January 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
(00:00) - It's a new year and we're excited about all the "point-y" things happening for us in 2025! Give this episode a listen to find out what we're looking forward to.
(01:07) - One reader's interesting experience disbanding a United miles pool highlights a possible hack and brings up a few questions.... Learn more about miles-pooling here: https://www.united.com/en/us/mileageplus/miles-pooling/
(04:17) - Can a pool leader leave a miles pool?
(04:35) - Can I leave a miles pool after joining?
(07:25) - Chase United card devaluation: TravelBank credits instead of statement credits
(11:10) - Chase Aeroplan PYB (Pay Yourself Back) Travel limited to 200K
(13:51) - Marriott Choice Benefit 40 night selection expiry Read more about this update here: https://frequentmiler.com/marriott-bonvoy-choice-benefits/
(16:27) - IHG Ends Annual Lounge Pass Loophole In 2025
(19:52) - Pay taxes via credit card slightly cheaper (starts at 1.75%) but down to 2 processors PayUSATax gone ("We are no longer processing federal tax payments on behalf of the IRS.") Learn more about paying taxes with a credit card here: https://frequentmiler.com/pay-taxes-via-credit-card/
(25:21) - Greg and Nick’s "Bonvoyed" pick: Hyatt breaks our hearts with Mr & Mrs Smith Read our "Bonvoyed of the year" post here: https://frequentmiler.com/frequent-milers-peoples-choice-bonvoyed-awards-2024-edition/
(26:47) - Readers' "Bonvoyed" picks...
(28:10) - Our picks for for Deal of the Year Read our "Deal of the Year" post here: https://frequentmiler.com/2024-deal-of-the-year-and-readers-choice-vote/
(29:02) - Readers' picks for Deal of the Year
(31:01) - Small Luxury Hotels SLH
(33:07) - Preferred hotels & Resorts
(35:30) - Alaska Mileage Plan mixed partner awards
(40:13) - Earning Alaska elite status through award bookings
(42:51) - Alaska premium card
(45:00) - Digging into SAS awards
(47:17) - Finding a great Vacasa redemption (I bought points)
(49:17) - Finding great Capital One Miles deals See the "Deal of the Year" episode here: https://frequentmiler.com/deal-of-the-year-2024-frequent-miler-on-the-air-ep287-12-27-24-podcast/
(52:09) - Getting back into the swing of bank account bonuses
(54:05) - Trying out the AA bus from PHL-ACY.
(58:57) - Would a Delta Gold status be useful for a Korean Air flight booked via Delta miles?
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:14.0 | What crazy thing did City this week. |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.9 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.2 | The main event. |
| 0:22.4 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:27.2 | Today's main event, 10 pointish things we're most looking forward to. |
| 0:33.0 | As we kick off the year 2025, Nick and I are looking forward to various things having to do with |
| 0:38.7 | earning points and miles, using points and miles, and adjacent things, elite status, free |
| 0:45.5 | whatever's. So we're going to get into the things that are kind of on our mind as we kick off |
| 0:51.1 | the year as the things we're most looking forward to. |
| 0:54.9 | Yeah, very good. I'm looking forward to that. And if you want to come back and revisit some of this later on or you want to skip ahead to something, don't forget that you'll always find the timestamps in the show notes. Just expand the show description. And that's also where you'll find links to more information about at least some of the things that we're talking about today. and wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this. Give us a thumbs up. |
| 1:14.2 | Leave us a review. We appreciate that. All right, let's drag out this week's giant mail bag. |
| 1:18.9 | Today's giant mail comes from Jeremy. Jeremy talks about United Airlines mileage pooling. |
| 1:25.4 | Jeremy wrote, we were going to book United flights to Portugal |
| 1:29.0 | next summer with our kids, but I had 100,000 United Miles and my wife had 220,000, which neither one |
| 1:37.1 | was enough to book everyone together. We wanted to book them at the same time and from the same |
| 1:41.1 | account. So from what I learned from you all, United allows pooling of miles. |
| 1:46.5 | Great. So we did it. And before long, we had 320,000 pooled miles. Went to book, and as you know, |
| 1:55.2 | and we didn't, you can't use pooled miles to book partner airlines, which was the case with getting roundtrip to Portugal. |
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