Awesome award travel (economy to first class), Rakuten rant, best business cards & more | Ep50
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Greg & Nick discuss:
1:12 Feedback time: Rakuten Visa rant
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/earn-6-cashback-on-rakuten-visa-at-grocery-stores-restaurants-mobile-wallet-purchases/
8:00 What crazy thing did Citi do this week?
11:52 Economy class to Africa: The best deals are cheaper than flights to Europe
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/best-ways-to-get-to-africa-using-miles-economy-class-edition/
15:09 Premium Economy: Vanished Air France award space
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/book-air-france-klm-with-virgin-atlantic-miles/
21:55 Business Class: ANA's super sweet award chart
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/269000-ana-miles-expire-in-5-months-what-to-do/
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/ana-strengths-and-sweet-spots/
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/ana-now-charges-10-of-mileage-for-lap-infants/
39:43 First class: The world's best, now bookable for next spring
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/book-the-worlds-best-first-class-now-fly-next-year/
48:25 Are you tempted to transfer points to book this stuff?
54:16 Do the best Kimpton hotels in the US excite you?
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/best-kimpton-hotels-united-states-canada/
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/kimpton-ihg-platinum-experience-kimpton-muse/
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/grocery-store-diamond-new-emirates-suites-from-new-york-ppp-enhancements-and-more/ (for a link to road trip post)
1:02:33 US Bank releases Altitude Go
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/us-bank-launches-altitude-go/
1:07:41 Question of the Week: Which business cards are "easy" to get right now?
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/complete-guide-to-plastiq-credit-card-payments/
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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. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to Frequent Miler on the air. |
| 0:15.2 | Hey, Nick. |
| 0:16.0 | Today we're going to do something a little different with our show. |
| 0:18.9 | Instead of us, yeah, pretty excited about this. We're changing it different with our show. Instead of us, yeah, I'm pretty excited about this. |
| 0:21.9 | We're changing it up a little bit. |
| 0:24.0 | Instead of just bringing up three or four random topics, |
| 0:28.3 | we're going to dive into award sweet spots. |
| 0:32.7 | And what we're going to do is we're going to start from the bottom and go up. |
| 0:36.5 | So with the bottom being the economy class, economy class, sweet spots, move up to premium economy, business class, and then ultimately first class. So that's how we're going to sort of set up the show. All right. So we're going to build up, slowly build. There's some excitement. So each thing, there's something a little bit more interesting coming maybe. Yeah, exactly. So we'll see if that works out the way we're kind of envisioning it. We can help. We don't know at this moment. By the time anyone's listening to it, we will know by then. And we could go back in time and warn you, it's not going to be as good as we thought. No, all right. So before we jump into that, |
| 1:12.1 | though, we always have two segments first. We have when we remember them. We have the feedback time, |
| 1:19.0 | and then we have the, what crazy thing did Citi do this week. So feedback time. Now, I know that |
| 1:26.3 | you love feedback time. I do. I love hearing what people have to say., I know that you love feedback time. |
| 1:28.7 | I do. |
| 1:29.1 | I love hearing what people have to say. |
| 1:31.0 | And I know you even more love confession time when it's not your own confession. |
| 1:36.6 | Everybody loves it. |
| 1:37.6 | Everybody loves it. |
| 1:40.0 | So I'm going to do neither of those. |
| 1:42.8 | Oh, man. |
| 1:43.9 | Come on. And, yeah. And I'm going to do neither of those. Oh, man. Come on. And, yeah. And I'm going to do a little rant. A little rant. Okay. Well, I mean, that could be fun depending on what the rant's about. Yeah. It's a customer service story. Nobody wants to hear it. No, it's not a customer service story, really, although I guess it could tie into one, |
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