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Frequent Miler on the Air

Advanced Award Booking Techniques | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep279 | 11-1-24

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

If you learn a few advanced tricks, you can book awards for less miles than you'd think, and for better products or flights than you might think as well.

(01:07) - About our Coffee Break: Earn miles while saving and paying for college | Coffee Break Ep31 | 10-28-24 | Podcast

See episode 31 of Coffee Break "Earn miles while saving and paying for college" here.

(01:36) - Giftcards dot com added fee - it still seems to be earning GCdotcom rewards, but might not last

(02:14) - One reader says as of 2024, you can rollover 529s into Roth IRAs.

Learn more about our ongoing challenge at https://millionmilemadness.com

(05:44) - Quick recap

SAS Eurobonus allows points pooling (Read more about SAS points pooling here.)

(06:52) - Stephen is all booked!

Read Stephen's Million Mile Madness journal here.

(08:35) - Read Nick's Million Mile Madness journal here.

(11:36) - Greg: "Speed and Style"

Read Greg's Million Mile Madness journal here.

(17:05) - Marriott Homes & Villas promo: Stay 2+ nights & spend $1k+ to earn 30K bonus points

Read more about the Marriott Homes & Villas promo here.

(18:24) - Choice enhances program in 2025

Read about Choice Privileges improvements coming in 2025 here.

(20:19) - Virgin Atlantic's dynamic award pricing is live

Read more about Virgin Atlantic's dynamic award pricing here.

(23:03) - United increasing elite requirements for 2025

(24:41) - DOT Refund Rule

(26:56) - JetBlue's excellent status match Find our episode about JetBlue's status match here.

(27:39) - Last minute bookings/changes

(29:53) - Same day changes

(32:09) - What is Skiplagging?

(35:37) - Mix cabins for lower prices

(39:25) - Start to End Distance based pricing

(43:37) - Weird pricing

(45:50) - Distance based award tricks...

(51:59) - Avoid sucky programs

(1:01:33) - How can I time an Amex Platinum consumer card downgrade to gold card in order to get maximum credits from each, and what happens if I upgrade again later... would I get the benefits again?

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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

Let's get into the giant mailbag.

0:14.2

What crazy thing did?

0:16.3

City this week.

0:17.8

It's time for mattress running the numbers.

0:20.2

Ready for the main event? The main event.

0:22.6

Frequent Miller on the air starts now. Today's main event, advanced award booking techniques.

0:31.7

We're going to tell you about some of the tricks that we use to book awards that go beyond the just find award availability, but to where

0:41.4

you can get awards cheaper or sometimes just better awards for low prices. Yeah, I mean,

0:49.4

I'm excited about this. These are some of the things that we do all the time or at least think

0:53.6

about or check or try.

0:55.6

And so hopefully you'll find some help in a couple of these ted bits along the way. But before we get into all of that, I want to remind you that you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So don't forget to expand the show notes if you want to jump ahead to something or come back to it later. and wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this podcast video,

1:12.4

wherever you're, like I said, watching or listening.

1:14.4

Leave us a report. jump ahead to something or come back to it later. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this podcast video, wherever you're, like I said, watching or listening.

1:14.4

Leave us a review, leave us some stars, that sort of thing. We always appreciate that.

1:19.0

All right. Let's drag out this week's Giant Mail back.

1:21.3

All right. Today's Giant Mail comes from Lauren. But first, a little background.

1:31.9

This is in response to a coffee break episode that we did called Earn Miles while saving and paying for college. In there, we talked about how you can

1:39.2

buy gift of college gift cards with a credit card to earn rewards and then use those to pay for college

1:44.9

in various ways. And one of the tricks that we mentioned during that show, I should say,

1:51.9

is no longer working. During the show, we said that temporarily gift cards.com was selling the

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