An award travel save, Turkish changing the game, and more
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when your positioning flight gets canceled hours before you are due to fly 15 hours away on an award ticket? Why are the changes to Amex airline fee reimbursements a total non-issue? Which niche credit card might Greg open thanks to Simon Malls? Should we increase the Reasonable Redemption Value of ThankYou points because of Turkish Miles & Smiles? See us debate those topics and more.
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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. |
| 0:12.2 | It's Friday. How's it going? Oh, it's going well. How's it going for you? It's been a good week. |
| 0:19.4 | It's been a good week. Nice to. Thank goodness. It's's finally Friday huh yeah I guess so I mean I know you've been crazy |
| 0:25.7 | busy last couple days with all the you've put out about a thousand quick deals it |
| 0:31.0 | seems like you know the first of the month always a ton of new stuff happening so |
| 0:34.7 | that always happens and there was just a lot of other stuff too. So yeah, |
| 0:38.4 | I mean, there's some really exciting stuff over the last day, some really awesome deals. |
| 0:42.7 | What are you most excited about? You know, personally, I'm probably most excited the transfer |
| 0:47.7 | bonus to British Airways just because the timing is good. But just for some things that I need to book so 40% I mean that's just it's |
| 0:57.3 | amazing I couldn't believe the last time they ran 40% and I know they did it |
| 1:00.8 | targeted for like a week last month I think some people had 40 or 50% but the |
| 1:05.7 | last time they actually did 40 was last year at some point and boy I'm |
| 1:09.5 | hot about whether or not to transfer last time around and this time I I don't think I'm going to have in awe. I'm going to take advantage of it. There's just some decent spots. I mean, I know Auvius gets a bad rap. It's not particularly good for travel to Europe unless you find the availability on Iberia. But for travel to Asia, it actually makes some of the flights from the West Coast pretty reasonable, especially premium economy. |
| 1:31.2 | Premium economy in Japan Airlines looks pretty nice, and it's not that unreasonable from the West Coast. |
| 1:38.3 | And then when you add in the fact, for me anyway, if I were to do a trip this year, a lap infant is 10% of the obvious. |
| 1:46.0 | So that's much better than 10% of the cash price. |
| 1:49.0 | So, I think, yeah, I mean, the Turkish one looks pretty cool too. |
| 1:54.0 | You're going to Istanbul next month. |
| 1:57.0 | Right. |
| 1:58.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:59.0 | That's not in my plans, but if you are, I mean, that looks pretty cool. So what's the cost to go to Istanbul again? 31,500 miles one way in business class. I mean... One way in business. So, okay. From Atlanta to Istanbul is what it is. So it's very niche. Okay. You have to be able to position to Atlanta easily or in Atlanta. And I honestly don't know what the fuel charge is. |
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