134. 2025 Points & Miles Changes You Need to Know

Points Talk®: Your Travel Dreams, Made Possible by Points

Alex, Pam and Jess

Places & Travel, Education, Society & Culture, How To

4.9 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Major shifts in lounge access, baggage fees, and loyalty programs are reshaping the landscape of travel rewards in 2025. With summer travel quickly approaching, the Travel Mom Squad is here to break down what these changes mean for solo and family travelers planning their vacations.

In this episode, the Travel Mom Squad dives into the most significant changes announced so far this year. You will learn which credit cards are still worth keeping despite the changes, how to make the most of the new restrictions, and the strategic moves travelers should make before key deadlines arrive. The Travel Mom Squad shares their personal decisions on which cards they’re keeping, canceling, or adding to their wallets, along with insider tips on navigating the evolving world of airline loyalty programs.

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0:00.0	We're only about halfway through 2025, and there have already been some major changes in the world of points of miles.
0:06.2	Keep listening to hear all about them.
0:08.8	Welcome to Points Talk with the Travel Mom Squad.
0:11.8	We are three moms who've discovered how to leverage credit card welcome offers to get hundreds of thousands of dollars of travel expenses for nearly free.
0:20.2	We've used credit card points of miles
0:21.8	to take vacations to places like Hawaii, Paris, Greece, Maldives, Japan, and so much more. And the best
0:28.7	part? We each still have 800 plus credit scores. Imagine being able to take the vacation of your
0:34.4	dreams for nearly free. It's totally possible and we're here to show you how.
0:40.1	Hey, I'm Alex, and I'm Pam, Alex's mom. And I'm Jess. Let's Talk Points. Today we are diving into
0:47.7	some of the changes in the Points in Miles world that have been announced in 2025 so far. We have a lot to cover because unfortunately,
0:58.1	maybe fortunately in like one case, there have been a lot of changes announced so far. So let's get
1:04.3	to it. Alex is going to cover the first one, which has probably been the most controversial
1:10.1	change, I would say, that has been announced in 20, maybe
1:14.4	Southwest. But we're going to start out with the lounge access changes that have come to the Venture
1:20.2	X personal and business cards. Yes. So the Venture X and Venture X business card,
1:25.8	lounge access changes are coming February 1st,
1:29.0	2026. Now, I just want everyone to take a step back because like just said, this is
1:35.1	been very controversial. People have been very upset about this change. But just remember,
1:39.8	it's not till February 1st. You can still, with all the things I'm about to say, just remember,
1:45.3	it doesn't start till February 1st. And this is still a card that I will be keeping. I know Jess
1:51.8	is planning to keep it. I'm sure you're planning on keeping it, mom. It's still an incredible card.
1:57.2	So just got to preface with that. Before you continue, I just want to announce that February 1st,
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