100K Vacay: Resetting the odds due to transfer bonuses | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep322 | 9-5-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast episode, Kathy tells us why the Frequent Miler team challenges are her favorite time of the year, and we discuss how transfer bonuses have already changed the 100K Vacay game.
Giant Mailbag
(01:50) - Two listeners share their experiences with the recent cancellation of the Honolulu to Boston route through Hawaiian Airlines.
(09:11) - One listener tells us the annual challenge is her favorite time of the year...
JetBlue 25/25 Update
(11:33) - Nick and his family have 20+ destinations
Card News
(16:55) - Updated guide to ultra-premium credit card travel protections
Mattress Running the Numbers
(23:52) - Rovemiles promo
Bonvoyed
(31:07) - Bummer: Alaska losing award partnerships with LATAM and Singapore on 10/1
(33:40) - Avios transfers between British Airways, Iberia, and Aer Lingus are suspended
Awards, Points, and More
(37:32) - Bilt status match to Virgin Voyages
(40:00) - GHA Discovery (hotel program) status match from many hotel/airline/cruise programs: https://frequentmiler.com/gha-discovery-hotel-program-status-match-from-many-hotel-airline-cruise-programs/
Main Event: 100K Vacay: Resetting the odds due to transfer bonuses
(45:12) - Challenge overview
(50:02) - 100K Vacay Schedule announced
(57:15) - Original Odds (without knowing about transfer bonuses): 1. Tim, 2. Stephen, 3. Nick
(1:01:42) - Planning Phase Transfer Bonuses
(1:29:46) - Original prediction: (re: Nick) I can almost guarantee that he’s going to make some 100K magic happen in a way that no one can predict. Despite the odds, I’m betting Nick will take home the crown. What's the new prediction?
Question of the Week
(1:36:53) - Should we change the RRV for Alaska and Chase based on the things they've recently lost?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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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 | On today's show, Kathy tells us why we're about to enter her favorite time of the year. |
| 0:17.8 | And we'll talk about how transfer bonuses have changed the 100KVay game. |
| 0:22.8 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. Today's main event, 100K vacay, resetting the odds due to |
| 0:32.1 | transfer bonuses. Our annual team challenge is starting soon. And one of the things that is going to have a big impact on each contestant is which transfer bonuses are in effect and during the planning stage of the whole challenge |
| 0:54.8 | so that they can make their 100,000 points go further with transfer bonuses. |
| 0:59.8 | And there have been a lot this summer during the planning stage. |
| 1:04.0 | And I think it's really interesting to dive in and see what does the landscape look like. |
| 1:09.8 | Now that we know what most of the transfer bonuses |
| 1:11.8 | that were available to the contestants were, |
| 1:14.3 | who now really has the upper hand on the whole thing? |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah, it's really interesting |
| 1:20.0 | because I don't think it's shaking out the way |
| 1:22.3 | that any of us would have predicted on that front. |
| 1:25.4 | So we'll come back to more about that and how it's been different, I think, than certainly me than I expected and probably differently than you too. So then you expect it as well, I suppose. So we'll get into that in a few minutes. But first, remember, don't forget that you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So if you want to jump ahead to that or you want to come back to something later on, you can always find the timestamps just by expanding |
| 1:47.5 | the description box. Wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to give this video or |
| 1:52.5 | podcast a like, a thumbs up, some stars, a review. Leave us your comments. Tell us your thoughts, |
| 1:58.1 | too. We love to hear from you. And with that out the way, |
| 2:01.9 | let's move on to this week's Giant Mail bag. All right. Today's Giant Mail, we have three entries. |
| 2:07.6 | The first two relate to a question we had, I think, a week or two ago about someone had booked a Hawaiian Airlines lie flat first class |
| 2:21.5 | award between Honolulu and Boston and then that route got canceled and we gave some advice |
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