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Frequent Miler on the Air

Airline loyalty shake up: Big news from Aeroplan, British Airways, JetBlue and more | Ep180 | 12-10-22

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9640 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Aeroplan adds the ability to book Emirates awards, British Airways lets you pay more Avios and less money, JetBlue totally revamps its loyalty program and more. Greg and Nick discuss this week's big loyalty news and more. Join our email list to read even more: FrequentMiler.com/Subscribe

00:28 Giant mailbag: Etihad sweet spot on Asiana

https://frequentmiler.com/best-ways-to-get-to-asia-using-miles-premium-cabins/

3:16 What crazy thing....did Southwest Airlines do this week?

7:30 Mattress running the numbers: Necker Island is back and there's a 30% transfer bonus. Is it worth it?

https://frequentmiler.com/necker-island-book-with-virgin-points/

18:09 Awards we booked this week: IHG search results weirdness (don't forget to scroll to the bottom!)

20:49 Main Event: Airline loyalty shakeup: Big news from Aeroplan, British Airways, JetBlue, and more

21:05 Aeroplan adds the ability to earn & redeem on Emirates

https://frequentmiler.com/book-emirates-through-aeroplan-econ-business-now-first-class-to-come/

30:09 British Airways adds option to pay more Avios and less money

https://frequentmiler.com/british-airways-adds-option-to-use-more-avios-less-money/

36:26 Alaska adds the ability to book El Al online

https://frequentmiler.com/transfer-partner-master-list/

40:12 JetBlue's new loyalty program

https://frequentmiler.com/jetblue-adding-multiple-elite-status-levels-in-2023/

1:01:49 Question of the Week: How long does it take for Marriott elite nights to post when you get a new credit card?

Music credit: 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.

0:10.7

Let's get into the giant mailbag.

0:13.5

What crazy thing did City this week.

0:17.5

It's time for mattress running the numbers.

0:19.8

Ready for the main event? The main event.

0:21.6

Frequent Liler on the air starts now.

0:23.6

Today's main event, airline loyalty shakeup.

0:29.6

There's big news from Aeroplan, British Airways, JetBlue, and more.

0:34.6

We'll get into all of that.

0:36.6

But first, of course, giant mailbag time. What's in our

0:41.1

giant mail today is a comment from Seth in reaction to the post, best ways to get to Asia

0:49.2

using Miles. And the post is specifically about premium cabins, so like business and first class.

0:55.7

And Seth writes, I was doing some random award search, word chart research and found a decent sweet spot I haven't heard covered much.

1:04.9

Asiana business class from the West Coast, L.A. and San Francisco to South Korea for 59,000 Eddie Had miles.

1:15.0

So Eddie Had partners with Iziana, and Eddihad has a distance-based award chart for, I guess, most partners, or at least for Asiana.

1:26.9

And he found that flights under 6,000 miles price at 59K and that these two airports to South Korea just happened to be just under that distance.

1:39.8

And so that's a nice sweet spot I wasn't aware of.

1:42.4

He goes on to mention that any transfer bonus to Eddie Had, of course, would make it a great deal.

1:49.1

Right, right.

1:49.7

Oh, yeah, that's a good one to keep an eye on and see what happens with it.

1:53.4

You know, they used to also reliably offer a lot of space on their flights.

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