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Frequent Miler on the Air

Best Uses for Virgin Points | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep268 | 8-16-24

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture, Aviation

4.9640 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

You can use these points for cruises, hotels and some really compelling deals on flights, of course. In this episode, we'll discuss some of our favorite uses for Virgin Points.

(01:28) - Tips for using AutoSlash for car rentals...

(06:50) - The Amex Gold card's Dunkin' benefits can apparently be used at Baskin Robbins!

Read more about the Amex Gold Card here.

(09:58) - Qatar devaluation impacts using Qatar Avios to book American & Alaska

(14:06) - Read more about award ticket change and cancellation fees here.

(16:02) - LifeMiles devaluation (not all bad news)

(17:44) - Catch our Learning to Love LifeMiles episode 257 here.

(19:03) - Air France/KLM is bookable again with Virgin Points

Main Event: Best uses for Virgin points

(21:56) - Virgin Red & Virgin Atlantic Flying Club share same points, just link your accounts

(22:29) - It's easy to get Virgin Points

(22:49) - Learn more about frequent transfer bonuses here.

(23:10) - Learn more about the Virgin Red credit card here.

(23:19) - Delta One to Europe is effectively dead

(24:37) - Now, fly Air France / KLM short distances in/near Europe

(29:36) - Fly Air France/KLM to/from Europe

(33:11) - Economy to/from London (fly Delta or Virgin Atlantic)

(35:50) - Learn more about Virgin Voyages here.

(39:39) - Read Nick's post on getting free cruises from status matches here.

(42:34) - More rare Virgin Point deals...

(47:25) - What do you do when a Marriott nightly upgrade award would put you in a suite with a lower room occupancy than the lower, standard room (and a lower occupancy rate than you need)?

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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.

0:10.8

Let's get into the giant mailbag.

0:13.6

What crazy thing did?

0:15.9

City this week.

0:17.5

It's time for mattress running the numbers.

0:19.9

Ready for the main event?

0:21.1

The main event.

0:22.3

Frequent Milo on the air starts now.

0:26.8

Today's main event, best uses for virgin points.

0:31.1

Virgin Atlantic points, virgin red points.

0:33.4

They're not just for breakfast anymore.

0:35.0

They can be used for cruises and hotels and other stuff.

0:40.1

But our favorite use of them, well, I shouldn't even say our favorite.

0:45.4

One of the best uses that was like most compelling to fly cheaply on Delta 1 across the Atlantic is no longer a good value with Virgin,

0:56.2

but luckily there's quite a few really good deals that you can still get with your Virgin

1:01.3

points. So that's what we'll get into in today's main event. Yeah, actually, I just flew an

1:06.6

award a few days ago that was booked with Virgin Atlantic points. And so we'll talk more about that in a little bit. But before we get into all of this, don't forget, you can always find the time stamps in the show notes. So if you want to jump ahead to a specific segment, or you want to come back and return to something later on after you listen to the whole show, you can always find those timestamps there wherever you're watching or listening. Don't forget to like this. Give us up leave us a review leave your feedback in the comments we always love to hear from you so

1:30.8

thank you very much for doing all of those things and don't forget to go to frequent myler

1:34.4

com slash subscribe join our email list anyway all that out of the way let's drag out this week's

1:39.0

giant mailback all right today's giant mail comes from benjamin uh. Benjamin has his email is about auto slash.

1:46.0

Now, auto slash is a service that we've talked about before for getting cheaper car

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