Alaska/Hawaiian Airlines Wedding Planning | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep269 | 8-23-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Late 2023, Alaska Airlines announced that it planned to acquire Hawaiian Airlines and just last week, the DOJ allowed the merger to move ahead. Today, we'll talk about how to prepare for this "wedding" between programs.
(01:12) - The value of my Life miles just disappeared into Finn Air
Listen to Ask Us Anything Ep69 here. Listen to Frequent Miler on the Air Ep268 "Best Uses for Virgin Points" here.
(02:25) - Dell no longer selling many 3rd party items (headphones, etc)
(03:59) - Amex Business Platinum card credits for Dell, Adobe, and Indeed are ending 12/31/24
Read more about the Amex Business Platinum card here.
(06:48) - Which hotel award search tool is best?
Read Greg's post about which hotel award search tool is best here.
(10:17) - Radisson Rewards instant status (Read more about Radisson Rewards instant status here)
(11:50) - Marriott just sent Greg a $50 promo gift card for continued loyalty
Main Event: Alaska/Hawaiian Airlines Wedding Planning(13:24) - Late 2023, Alaska Airlines announced that it planned to acquire Hawaiian Airlines...
(15:44) - Backing up... Let's talk about the pre-merger situation with both airlines...
(16:29) - Alaska Airlines recently joined oneworld alliance, recently overhauled award charts, and pledged to offer mixed partner awards by late 2024
(17:50) - What we like about Alaska Airlines...
(21:29) - Alaska miles are hard to get in huge quantities...
(23:12) - Alaska credit cards...
Learn more about the Alaska Airlines Visa Signature card here.
Learn more about the Alaska Airlines Visa Business card here.
(24:41) - Currently, very few great uses for Hawaiian Airlines miles
(25:21) - Hawaiian Airlines has wide body jets with lie-flat business class seats, and international destinations: South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Cook Islands
(26:31) - Getting Hawaiian Airline miles...
Learn more about the Hawaiian Airlines World Elite MasterCard by Barclays here.
Learn more about the Hawaiian Airlines Business card here.
(29:07) - What we know about the merger so far...
(30:30) - What we don't know yet...
(36:21) - Amex Membership Rewards 20% transfer bonus to Hawaiian through 8/31/24
(46:34) - One reader booked a one way partner flight through Flying Blue, then it was revoked at the Copa counter without notice or explanation. Is this common and what should you do in this kind if situation?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.6 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.9 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.1 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.7 | Today's main event, Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines wedding planning. |
| 0:30.6 | We've all been invited to the wedding, but we have nothing to wear. |
| 0:35.5 | We're going to talk about how to plan for this big wedding. |
| 0:39.3 | How many miles should you have in your account to get ready for the big event? |
| 0:43.6 | And you know, I was a DJ in a past life. I DJed a lot of weddings. So I have some experience |
| 0:47.8 | here. So hopefully I can help you figure this out, Alaska and Hawaiian. I don't know about everybody |
| 0:53.6 | else. You guys are good luck. Hopefully Craig has more advice for you about what to wear to the wedding. But before we get into all that, I want to remind you that you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So if you want to jump ahead to that segment or something else in the show where you want to come back and visit it later on, you can always find those in the show notes. You might have to expand the description box to find that. Wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this. Give us a thumbs up. Leave us a review. Leave us a comment. Let us know what you thought, what you agreed with, what you disagreed with, what you think differently. We always love to hear from you guys. All that out of the way. Let's drag out this week's giant mail bag. All right. Today's giant mail is tiny. This is in reaction to last week's show and on our Ask |
| 1:34.0 | Us Anything. We talked about the Avianca Life Miles devaluation and the Qatar Avio's devaluation. |
| 1:43.4 | And for the latter, we talked a bit about how Finare Avios somewhat help, you know, |
| 1:51.0 | make that devaluation of Ovios less bad because that's another alternative way |
| 1:55.7 | to use your avios to good value. |
| 1:58.9 | And so James 07785 wrote, the value of my life miles just disappeared into |
| 2:06.3 | thin air. Well done. Well played. I love it. That was a great, great joke. Nice pun. Well done. Well |
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