Announcing the 2024 Team Challenge | Ask Us Anything Ep67 | 5-8-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
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🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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In addition to our regular weekly podcast, we also host an Ask Us Anything Live on YouTube once a month where the Frequent Miler team answers listener questions about points, miles, rewards cards, and whatever else comes to mind. This special episode (67) was streamed live on May 8, 2024 and introduces our 2024 annual team challenge!
(06:10) - Hi FM Team, now that we are approaching Summer, what you are most looking forward to this Summer?
(13:35) - how do you plan on handling the requirement for onward travel that many countries have in this challenge?
(15:37) - What's the "budget" for the contestants in this challenge?
(18:09) - Scoring? (And) Will the judges share their scoring criteria in advance?
(19:06) - Will there be any opportunity for reader/viewer engagement at the convergence points?
(24:00) - I hope you plan to document via Instagram stories this time! That's been my favorite way to watch along with the previous challenges in real time
(28:48) - Can you guess where you're each getting sent?
(32:17) - What is a place you are hoping you aren’t sent to?
(35:39) - Thoughts on the strata? And the strata elite? Do you think there will be family language?
(37:40) - Do you think that citi rebranding the premier signals a much better chance of a prestige replacement/csr comp coming in the next year or so?
(40:30) - Thanks for all the awesome content! Citi has denied P2 and I premier 3 times in the last 2 years, should I product change my DC to Premier since it’s going away or try for Strata Elite?
(42:13) - hi team! what's going on with transfers to Virgin? are points getting stuck in transit lately? would you advise holding off on transfers to virgin?
(44:11) - Can you speak on the capital one VX business priority pass rumors? My newly issued card is a visa and I’ve read on other blogs that the visas won’t have restaurant access. Is this true?
(46:46) - FHR Points question please - My Platinum AU is getting a points cost 33% higher than I get for the same stay, ideas on the reason?
(49:29) - Question: what are the most rewarding ways to get 529 gift of college gift cards?
(51:21) - Name your 6 must hit destinations if you were booking an ABA around the world trip
(55:39) - Is it worth to move 100k out of Fidelity to Meryl to get platinum honors ? Did FM team saw any inconvenience on maintaining 100k in Meryl
(58:36) - hi. I was recently informed by an Air France representative that it's permissible to forgo the first leg of a reward ticket and still utilize the second leg. Can you confirm this?"
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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. |
| 0:11.4 | This is not your usual frequent miler on the air episode. |
| 0:15.2 | This is our Ask Us Anything live session recorded and brought to you in podcast format. |
| 0:20.8 | Once a month, the frequent miler team gets together live on YouTube to answer your questions. |
| 0:25.7 | Ask us questions about points, miles, credit cards, airline, and hotel loyalty programs. |
| 0:30.0 | We don't know what's coming next and neither do you. |
| 0:32.1 | Enjoy. |
| 0:33.4 | I like it. |
| 0:34.2 | This is our monthly live brought to you not live on a podcast. |
| 0:41.5 | All right. I think we're live now. |
| 0:43.1 | Live. Today we're going to announce the latest 2024 team challenge. And we're going to do that soon. |
| 0:52.2 | But not, not, not immediately, because first we're going to talk a little bit about, little bit about past challenges, right? |
| 1:01.1 | I think the first team challenge we ever did was 40 K to far away, where me, Nick and Stephen competed to see who could go the furthest with 40,000 points and $400. |
| 1:14.0 | And Craig, where did you go? |
| 1:16.2 | Where did I go? I went to West Virginia. And then I went all the way from D.C. to West Virginia. |
| 1:26.2 | I got about that. Then I went back to D.C. Then I went to New York City. Then I went to Madrid. Then I went all the way from D.C. to West Virginia. I got about that. Then I went back to D.C. |
| 1:28.3 | Then I went to New York City. |
| 1:29.3 | Then I went to Madrid. |
| 1:30.8 | Then I went to Senegal. |
| 1:32.7 | Then I went to Johannesburg, South Africa. |
| 1:36.5 | Then I took a train to Cape Town. |
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