Best Bonuses for Huge Spend | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep356 | 5-1-26
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we'll talk about how Chase Point Boost is going bust, how Avianca sucks some life out of LifeMiles, and rewards for spending BIG.
Giant Mailbag
(01:16) - Mike says "I have a subscription to Award Wallet Plus, and it has a “Merchant Category Lookup Tool,” where you can enter a merchant name and it will give the related merchant category name..."
Find our Wells Fargo Journeys Forward episode 354 here
(05:50) - Visit frequentmiler.com/awardwallet here
Upgrade to AwardWallet Plus for 6 months (one time upgrade only): Click the down arrow next to your name within AwardWallet, and click “Upgrade Using a Coupon”, then enter: FrequentMiler (this will only work for those who have never upgraded before)
Card News
(07:18) - Royal Caribbean launches two new credit cards: Royal One and Royal One Plus
Crazy Thing
(10:20) - Finnair 18 month expiration
Mattress Running the Numbers
(17:37) - Buy Marriott Points for as low as 0.89 cents each
Bonvoyed
(21:33) - Chase Points Boost goes Bust
Read more about Chase Points Boost going bust here
Read more about Chase reducing redemption rates here
(35:46) - Air Canada Aeroplan devaluation
Learn more about Aeroplan devaluing their award chart here
(38:58) - Avianca LifeMiles changes
Awards, Points, and More
(45:31) - Wells Fargo adds transfer partner: Cathay Pacific (Autograph, Autograph Journey)
(47:16) - See our Instant Gift Card Deals post here
Main Event: Best Bonuses for Huge Spend
(49:47) - Today we'll focus on cards that earn big rewards after really big spend ($50K or more)
(52:24) - Bilt cards $50K: Platinum status
(56:49) - Marriott Bonvoy® Brilliant® American Express® Card $60K
(1:02:15) - Atmos™ Rewards Summit Visa Infinite® Card $60K (100K Companion cert)
(1:09:00) - Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card $75K
(1:15:17) - Sapphire Reserve for Businessâ„ Card $120K:
(1:17:13) - The Business Platinum Card® from American Express $250K
(1:23:43) - Aeroplan® Credit Card $1M: Free award companion for the rest of the calendar year and all of next year with $1 Million spend
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | On today's show, Chase Point Boost is going bust. |
| 0:15.0 | Avianca sucks the life out of life miles. |
| 0:18.7 | And we discuss rewards for spending big. Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:27.6 | Today's main event, best bonuses for huge spend. When Chase refreshed the Sapphire Reserve card, |
| 0:35.0 | they introduced a bonus for spending $75,000 within a calendar year. |
| 0:40.5 | It's actually a set of bonuses, which we'll discuss later in the show. But that got me thinking, |
| 0:46.2 | you know, there are other cards that offer similar things. And Amex Business Platon, for example, |
| 0:52.3 | introduced a new, even much bigger spend bonus. |
| 0:56.8 | And so we're going to look at those type of really big spend bonuses, discuss them, come |
| 1:03.1 | up with our ideas of which ones we think are best and worth pursuing. |
| 1:08.1 | Absolutely. |
| 1:08.6 | If you want to jump ahead to that or you want to come back to something |
| 1:11.3 | later on, don't forget, you'll always find the timestamps in the show notes. Just expand the |
| 1:16.4 | description box to find those and jump around. And wherever you're watching or listening, |
| 1:21.4 | don't forget to give this a thumbs up, a like, leave us a review. We always appreciate |
| 1:25.7 | your feedback on the show. Now let's drag out |
| 1:28.5 | this week's Giant Mailback. Today's Giant Mail comes from Mike, who wrote in response to our show, |
| 1:35.3 | Wells Fargo Journeys Forward, which was episode 354. In that show, we talked about the Wells Fargo |
| 1:42.1 | attune card, which has a massive number of categories |
| 1:46.4 | in which it earns 4% back. And we kind of discussed how that's great, but also really |
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