Beyond 100K: Earn more points, save money, get great value | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep302 | 4-18-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
If you just got 100K points from a brand new travel rewards card, you should know a few things to help make sure you're earning even more points, saving money, and getting great value. Plus we'll also look at "Amex referral reformatory rescinded" and how to earn points on RENT with any credit card.
(01:30) - One reader shares a success story using the "email the GM" strategy...
(03:37) - Capital One Venture X Business Card: Up to 350K Miles
Read our review of the Capital One Venture X Business Card here.
(06:55) - Amex referrals back for many (referral reformatory rescinded)
(09:48) - Two Hawaiian cards in one day (my quick experience)
(17:23) - Synchrony reintroduces Cathay Pacific card
(21:06) - Bilt now offers rewards when you pay your rent with non-Bilt credit cards
(26:48) - Virgin jacked up fees on KLM/ Air France then backed off
(31:03) - Frontier Elite Gold status for $40
(35:22) - 30% transfer bonus from Citi to Virgin Atlantic thru May 17
Main Event(36:39) - Read our FAQ about this card here.
(38:45) - Earn more points
(59:09) - Save money
(1:09:49) - Redeem points for great value
(1:17:33) - DON'T TRANSFER TO...
(1:20:50) - World of Hyatt credit card gives an additional Hyatt category 1-4 free night certificate with 15K spend in a calendar year. But with recent Hyatt category changes, is it still worth spending towards that goal?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.7 | On today's show, we'll talk about how MX referral reformatory has been rescinded. We'll discuss how to earn points on rent with any credit card. |
| 0:20.4 | And we'll talk all about the Sapphire |
| 0:22.0 | Preferred, how you can earn more points, save more money, and redeem points for great value. |
| 0:27.3 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:31.5 | Today's main event, mastering your Sapphire Preferred card. You may have signed up for the |
| 0:36.7 | Sapphire Preferred card recently because at least as up for the Sapphire Preferred Card recently because |
| 0:38.5 | at least as we're recording this, there's a hundred thousand point welcome bonus offer available. |
| 0:44.6 | And so that is mighty tempting. And so if you signed up for the card, you got approved, got the |
| 0:51.8 | card at home. Now you might be wondering, what do I do with this thing? |
| 0:55.1 | We're going to walk you through how to master the card, how to earn more points, how to save money |
| 1:01.0 | with the card, and how to redeem your points for great value. Yeah, I mean, there's good reason why |
| 1:06.0 | it has long been lauded as probably the best beginner card. I mean, I think it's pretty widely regarded to be, |
| 1:13.9 | if not the best, at least among the best couple of beginner travel cards. And even if you're |
| 1:20.1 | not a beginner, this offer is so enticing that it certainly might be worthwhile. So we'll talk |
| 1:25.3 | all about that today. Don't forget that if you want to jump ahead to something or we want to go back and review something, you can find the timestamps in the show notes. Just expand the description box so you can read those. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to give us a thumbs up. Leave us some feedback. We always appreciate hearing from you. All right, Greg, drag out this week's giant mail bag. Today's giant mail comes from Ian. |
| 1:46.0 | Ian wrote, |
| 1:47.0 | While in Vietnam, I had a last-minute flight change that got me to Tokyo 16 hours early. |
| 1:52.0 | My Hyatt Reservation had no award availability for an extra night. |
| 1:56.0 | The cash rate was too high. |
| 1:58.0 | My phone wouldn't let me dial Japan. |
| 2:00.0 | And the chat team couldn't help. |
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