Amassing American Airlines Miles | Ep199 | 4-22-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Want piles of American Airlines miles? Here are your best strategies for amassing a massive amount of miles in the valuable AAdvantage rewards program.
00:00 Intro
01:03 Award Talk
01:04 Booking The Signature at MGM Grand via Airbnb
https://frequentmiler.com/hacking-las-vegas/
07:10 Roame.Travel adds JetBlue
08:07 Seats.Aero helps Greg find Qsuites availability
09:28 Giant Mailbag: Laddering flights
12:40 Giant Mailbag: Can I transfer Ultimate Rewards to American Airlines miles at a rate of 2:1 right now?
16:10 Card Talk: American Airlines cards
16:55 Citi AAdvantage MileUp card
https://frequentmiler.com/aamileup/
19:17 Citi AAdvantage Platinum Select
https://frequentmiler.com/aaplat/
22:50 Citibusiness AAdvantage Platinum Select card
https://frequentmiler.com/aaplatbiz/
23:31 Citi AAdvantage Executive card
https://frequentmiler.com/aaexec/
28:14 Barclays AAdvantage Aviator Red
https://frequentmiler.com/aviatorred/
30:24 Barclays AAdvantage Aviator Silver
https://frequentmiler.com/aviatorsilver/
36:16 Barclays Aviator Business
https://frequentmiler.com/aviatorbiz/
38:36 Main Event: Amassing American Airlines miles
38:40 Credit card strategies
49:47 AAdvantage Shopping Portal
53:06 SimplyMiles
56:48 Rewards Network AAdvantage Dining
57:38 Hotels: Rocketmiles / BookAAHotels
https://frequentmiler.com/best-way-to-earn-aa-miles-status-via-hotel-bookings/
1:00:36 Hotel partnership with Hyatt
https://frequentmiler.com/hyatt-american-airlines-partnership-now-live-link-your-accounts-now/
1:02:46 Car Rentals
1:04:10 Shell partnership
1:04:40 Banking: Bask Bank & Citi Checking bonus
1:10:36 Question of the Week: How can you value Hyatt points more highly than Chase Ultimate Rewards points?
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. |
| 0:10.8 | 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 Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's main event, amassing American Airlines Miles. |
| 0:30.6 | Last week we talked about our opinions of loyalty programs going up or down and we both talked about how much we're enjoying |
| 0:38.1 | are great big piles of American Airlines miles, but we didn't tell people how they could |
| 0:43.7 | earn great big piles of American Airlines miles until now. |
| 0:46.8 | And everybody wants piles of miles, right? |
| 0:49.3 | Everybody wants piles of miles. |
| 0:51.1 | And so we're going to talk about how you too can get great big piles of American Airlines |
| 0:55.2 | miles. |
| 0:56.2 | That was kind of fun to say. |
| 0:57.8 | That is kind of fun. |
| 0:58.8 | So maybe the main event needs to be called piles of American Airlines. |
| 1:02.5 | Great big piles of American Airlines miles. |
| 1:04.7 | Yeah, maybe we will. |
| 1:06.7 | Okay. |
| 1:07.7 | So we are going to mix things up. |
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