Award Booking Stories | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep305 | 5-9-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we'll talk about how The Standard is coming to Hyatt...(but we're too old for it). Nick will enlighten Greg about the fact that Air France flies to French Polynesia, and we'll talk through our recent award booking stories.
(01:24) - A correction about the Delta Business Gold card (with a $150 hotel credit, not $200 as mentioned in the episode).
(02:23) - Would a speculative Discover Miles card be worth it for the 3x everywhere for the first year, with the chance that those all become transferable to C1 miles when the merger goes through?
(08:05) - Greg acquired Smartly 4% card, downgraded Chase Sapphire Reserve, and got approved for Chase Sapphire Preferred
(20:06) - Citi Rewards+ may be achievable for some
(22:54) - Cardless removes one card per lifetime limit
(24:10) - Qatar cards increased offers
(29:54) - Rakuten’s shopping portal has a great new trick | Coffee Break Ep55 | 5-5-25 (Earn Amex and Chase cards at once)
Check out the coffee break episode 55 here.
(34:52) - TPG: "Chase Sapphire Preferred vs. Amex EveryDay Preferred: A $95 annual fee showdown"
(37:57) - Hyatt integration of The Standard
(43:15) - Air Tahiti bookable via Flying Blue
(47:19) - Nick: Hilton free night extendable
(50:43) - Gondola no longer requires access to your email
Main Event: Award Booking Stories
(52:09) - Greg: Booked premium cabin flights to Japan for his son
Read more about this trip here.
(1:01:28) - Nick: Booked unexpected trip to Bora Bora
(1:18:54) - Greg: Booked lie-flat round trip to London for 3
(1:34:28) - Why do people choose to do all this work for travel rather than just cash back?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by 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. |
| 0:11.1 | On today's show, we talk about the fact that the standard is coming to Hyatt, and we're too old for it. |
| 0:17.8 | Today I'll teach Greg that French Polynesia is served by Air France. Go figure. |
| 0:24.8 | And we'll talk about our recent award booking stories. |
| 0:29.1 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:33.4 | Today's main event, award booking stories. Today, Nick and I are going to just talk through |
| 0:38.5 | a few examples of recent award bookings that we made, and the point isn't really to teach |
| 0:44.8 | exactly how to do it, and we're not going to claim that we book the most perfect trips possible, |
| 0:50.7 | but rather, I think it'll be instructive to walk you through what we booked and why |
| 0:57.6 | and why we made various decisions along the way about what points to use, which airline to fly, |
| 1:03.2 | that kind of thing. So we'll see. We'll see how it goes. Yeah, I love story time. My kids love story |
| 1:08.5 | time. So I'm looking forward to telling some stories. |
| 1:30.9 | We'll see what we have up our sleeves. But don't forget, if you want to jump ahead to something or you want to come back to it later on and review it again, you can always find the timestamps and the show notes. So just expand the show description to find that. That's also where you'll find links to more information about what we've been talking about today. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this. Give it a thumbs up. Leave us a five-star review. |
| 1:28.7 | Give us a comment. to more information about what we've been talking about today. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this. |
| 1:46.7 | Give it a thumbs up. Leave us a five-star review. Give us a comment. Let us know what you think and what you would do differently. I always love to hear from you. Okay, let's drag out this week's giant mail back. All right. Today we've got two pieces of giant mail. First is from Colin. Colin says was just listening to the most recent podcast episode and wanted to point out that the Delta Business Gold has a $150 hotel credit, not $200, as mentioned |
| 1:54.3 | by Greg in the episode. Yes, that's true. Okay, I was going to say, I hope you've got this one because I was counting on you for the Delta |
| 2:03.3 | cards, Greg. |
| 2:04.4 | I'm not taking any credit on this one at all. |
| 2:07.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 2:08.4 | I mean, it's still, you know, it's still the fact that for the $150 card, you get $150 worth |
| 2:17.2 | a hotel credit. I had said $200 during the show. |
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