5 cool points & miles opportunities expiring soon | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep328 | 10-17-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
On today's Frequent Miler on the Air Podcast we'll discuss how to fly with 1 free human companion and 1 pet companion for a full year, or how to fly with a free human companion for two years, or how to get 350,000 points and elite status for 25 years!
Giant Mailbag
(01:15) - "I wanted to share some insights on the Mesa card based on my experience..."
Learn more about the Mesa Homeonwers card here.
100K Vacay Challenge
(07:36) - Stephen won both judges' vote and the popular vote!
(09:05) - Tim posted his full itinerary here: 7 nights in London and Norway for 100,000 points: Mountains, fjords and ferries
Card News
(10:02) - 5K bonus points for Atmos Summit card waitlisters extended
(11:59) - Citi Strata Elite 100K offer now public ($6K spend required)
Learn more about the Citi Strata Elite offer here.
Bonvoyed
(13:02) - Alaska tanks the utility of its “Famous Companion Fare”
(16:55) - No notice: Atmos changes award chart for Alaska & Hawaiian flights
Read more about this no-notice change here.
Awards, Points, and More
(19:15) - Alaska Atmos to improve earn rates on premium cabin partner bookings
Learn more about this here.
(25:04) - Rove launches Loyalty Eligible hotel stays; earn both Rove Miles & hotel points
Learn more about this here.
And consider signing up for Rove to get 500 free miles here.
(31:53) - United Mile Play offers
Learn more about new targeted United Mile Play offers here.
And read about Nick's recent experience here.
(35:47) - Rakuten: Best Ever 5K Membership Rewards / $50 referral bonus for both sides [Extended to 12/31]
Learn more about this here.
(37:54) - Rumor: Rakuten:Bilt
(39:36) - UseYourCredits: Track coupons, use their handy maps
Learn more about the handy maps here.
(42:18) - Find Preferred Hotels bookable with points (New interactive map!)
Find the interacitive map here.
Main Event: 5 cool points & miles opportunities expiring soon
(45:31) - Buy United miles for 1.36 or 1.44 cents each (or keep your Wyndham points from expiring) [Act fast: Oct 21]
Learn more about this promo here.
(46:57) - Learn more about the 25% transfer bonus from hotel programs to United MileagePlus here.
(47:34) - Learn more about the 100% transfer bonus from Wyndham to United MileagePlus here.
(51:30) - Buy Wyndham points for 0.68 or 0.72 cents each through Tuesday, October 21
Learn more about buying Wyndham points here.
(53:21) - Southwest: You can still get 2 free checked bags
Learn more about flying with 2 free checked bags here.
(56:38) - Frontier Companion Pass for 1 Year
Learn more about Frontier Platinum Status fast track here.
(1:04:38) - Southwest Companion Pass for 2 Years
(1:05:10) - JetBlue status for 25 years
Learn more about the cheaper path to 25 for 25 here.
Question of the Week
(1:11:25) - Do we have to care about all the ninja math valuations to get the maximum cent per point value?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at |
| 0:07.1 | voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.2 | On today's show, we'll discuss how to fly with one free human companion and one pet companion |
| 0:17.8 | for a full year, or how to fly with a free human companion for two years or if |
| 0:24.5 | that's not enough for you how to get 350,000 points and elite status for 25 years frequent |
| 0:31.5 | miler on the air starts now today's main event five cool points in miles opportunities expiring soon. On today's show, |
| 0:41.8 | we have sort of a grab bag of really cool opportunities that you need to jump on. Most of them |
| 0:48.0 | before the end of this year is when you need to attend to it, but some of it, you need to jump on much quicker than that. |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah, and you really have to strike while the iron is hot on things like this. And these are some of the kind of fun things. So I'm excited to talk about these. We'll get further into those later in the show and what you need to do to take advantage of them. But for now, don't forget that if you want to jump ahead to that or you want to come |
| 1:11.1 | back to something later on, don't forget, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the description box there. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to give this a thumbs up, a like, leave us some stars, a review, leave your comments and your thoughts about what we're talking about. We love to hear from you. with that out of the way, |
| 1:28.1 | let's drag out this week's giant mail back. |
| 1:30.0 | All right. |
| 1:30.5 | This week's giant mail. comments and your thoughts about what we're talking about. We love to hear from you. With that out of the |
| 1:27.8 | way, let's drag out this week's giant mail back. All right. This week's giant mail comes from Prince. |
| 1:33.2 | Prince actually wrote this in quite a while ago, but I finally have an opportunity to share it. |
| 1:37.9 | Prince wrote, I wanted to share some insights on the Mesa card based on my experience. As an aside, the Mesa card is a card that lets you |
| 1:46.4 | earn points when paying mortgage. And anyway, I'll get a little more into that in a second. |
| 1:53.4 | But Prince writes, while the exact calculations will vary for folks, I'm finding that I essentially |
| 1:58.7 | get about 8.7% back on my $1,000 monthly spend. |
| 2:02.8 | And again, as an aside, in order to earn points for your mortgage, you have to spend at least |
| 2:09.6 | $1,000 a month on this Mesa cart. |
| 2:12.3 | And he goes on, right, this is largely due to key expenses that receive the 3x multiplier. Specifically, |
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