3 new ways to earn transferable points | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep316 | 7-25-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast episode, we'll talk about how JetBlue bonvoyed Nick, how Accor bonvoyed Greg, and finally, two new transferable points programs and a new credit card that allows us to earn transferable points.
Giant Mailbag
(00:58) - "I've noticed that you love to be underwhelmed by the Amex Green card. In your recent episode about travel cards, it seemed like you couldn't contain your boredom with it, despite its valuable 3x Amex points for all types of travel ... A major benefit that you may have overlooked is constant Amex Offers from travel providers, which I've combined with the 3x on the Green card for a lot of value."
Catch Episode 315 here.
Card News
(05:43) - Citi Strata Elite. Here's what we expect...
(08:59) - Southwest card offers...
Crazy Thing: Citi!
(15:09) - Citi to Accor 1 to 1
Bonvoyed
(17:54) - Capital One brings back baseball tickets, but shuts out Venture X cardholders
(21:08) - JetBlue's 25% off sale with code SAVE25...but "fares booked with SAVE25 will not be counted towards 25 for 25"
Awards, Points, and More
(24:15) - Bilt transforming travel portal
(30:52) - JetBlue Mosaic first impressions
(35:11) - Escape lounge SJU and The Beekman Tower NYC
(38:51) - Greg's experience with Accor Live Limitless
(46:26) - Greg's experience flying American Airlines with Alaska miles
Main Event: 3 new ways to earn transferable points
(50:22) - Why we care so much about transferable points
(52:50) - Rove Miles
(1:00:58) - Consider using our referral link here.
(1:01:33) - Mesa
(1:08:55) - Rakuten American Express® Card
Learn more about the Rakuten American Express® Card here.
Question of the Week
(1:17:21) - A rep says you can only use an Alaska Credit Card to book companion fare flights... this is a problem when a companion fare cancellation goes to your Alaska wallet (which then can't be used for a new companion fare according to this new policy.) What gives?
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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. |
| 0:10.9 | On today's show, we'll talk about how JetBlue bonvoid mean and a core bonvoyed Greg, |
| 0:16.8 | and we'll discuss three new ways to earn transferable points. |
| 0:20.2 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's main event, three new ways to earn transferable points. |
| 0:28.9 | Today we're going to discuss two new transferable points programs and a new credit card |
| 0:35.3 | that lets us earn transferable points on today's main event. And we'll |
| 0:39.0 | talk about why we're so excited about the opportunity to get transferable points in general |
| 0:44.3 | and why having more options for earning transferable points is always a great thing. |
| 0:50.5 | Everybody likes options. Very good. And if you would like the option to come back to |
| 0:54.0 | something later on or to skip ahead to that main event, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the show description to find those there. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this. Leave us a comment and feedback. We always appreciate hearing from you. Now it's time to drag out this week's giant mail bag. |
| 1:23.9 | Today's giant mail comes from Chris in response to our last coffee break episode where we discussed the cards that we would consider using for all other travel. Now that the Sapphire Reserve card is no longer offering 3x for all types of travel |
| 1:30.6 | purchases and Chris writes I've noticed that you love to be underwhelmed by the |
| 1:37.1 | Amex green card in your recent episode about travel cards it seemed like you |
| 1:41.7 | couldn't contain your boredom with it, despite its valuable |
| 1:44.7 | 3x Amex points for all types of travel. Greg emphasized that it has only secondary rather than primary |
| 1:52.5 | rental coverage, but that doesn't make any difference outside the U.S. And Amex does offer primary |
| 1:58.4 | coverage for about $20, if that's really important to someone, which it isn't to me. A major benefit that you may have overlooked is constant Amex offers from travel providers, which I've combined with the 3X on the green card for a lot of value. Even though you almost fell asleep when discussing one of my favorite cards, I love everything that your team does. So what do you think, Greg? Are we sleeping on the green card? |
| 2:19.3 | I mean, to some extent, I, yeah. I mean, it's, it's definitely a strong option for, you know, |
| 2:27.7 | a kind of one, one stop solution for, for travel purchases. So you get a strong three-x earnings for all that travel. |
| 2:37.0 | And as, uh, you know, as Chris said, the ability to tag on amex offers, which can often be, |
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