Booking travel despite (or thanks to) COVID 19
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Greg and Nick discuss:
-Is this a good time to book future travel? We obviously don't know when "safe" will be, but maybe this is a good time to book for the future?
-Is it ethical to take advantage of the current no change fee policies?
More:
-Should we cancel or downgrade annual fee credit cards? We can't travel now, we don't know when we'll be able to travel again. When is it time to cut the cord on expensive credit cards with benefits we can't use?
-How should people handle the travel industry's customer service collapse? Many people are reporting huge wait times, finger pointing (e.g. "call the airline" no "call the OTA"), wrong information.
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Timestamps (thanks to Screaming Lincolns on Youtube):
3:15 Is it really free? (Hotel Free Night) 5:13 Free Nights vs Award Flights w/Fuel Surcharges 10:50 Points/Miles Great Value Discussion 13:31 Main Topic: When to book travel? 15:56 June 1st??? 18:18 British Airways Refund Trick [Hat Tip to Gary Leff at View From The Wing] 22:23 Spend all miles now??? 23:00 Ethical Issue: Change Waivers 28:18 Where in the world would you like to be quarantined? 31:32 Greg's Travel Plans 34:06 Cust Svc/Changing Policies 39:09 Southwest's Travel Funds Extension 41:12 Credit Card Downgrades [Hat Tip to Grant Thomas at Travel With Grant] 43:30 Downgrade Strategy 53:41 What's in your wallet, NOW??? 58:42 Nick's Morphosis :) 1:00:35 F-Bomb Averted :( 1:03:35 Question of the Week: Extending United Airlines Voucher
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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 |
| 0:07.1 | Voyescape.com. Welcome to Frequent Myler on the air. How are you doing, Nick? I'm doing great. How are |
| 0:16.1 | you doing, Greg? Doing good. Despite the whole coronavirus thing doing well. |
| 0:22.0 | I am wondering, though, whether anybody is out there listening. |
| 0:26.8 | And the reason I'm saying that is a lot of people have come to me and said they love our podcast and our video. |
| 0:35.3 | But almost all of them said they watch or listen while working out at the gym or on their |
| 0:42.7 | commute to work, which neither are those things are happening right now. |
| 0:47.2 | Right, right. |
| 0:48.4 | So this is going to be the lot. |
| 0:49.4 | We should just title this one, The Lost episode. |
| 0:52.0 | Right, right. |
| 0:52.8 | So some number of people are listening to this whenever the whole thing is over, |
| 0:58.1 | which we don't know when that'll be, June, August, 2021, you know. |
| 1:04.3 | 22, who know? |
| 1:05.2 | Hopefully it'll be over. |
| 1:07.4 | And so for those of you, you know, welcome to the past. |
| 1:10.4 | This is a sort of like a time capsule episode. |
| 1:14.7 | And for those you who did join us now during the coronavirus outbreak, thank you for joining us. |
| 1:20.8 | Hopefully, it provides a few minutes of levity in this otherwise weird times. |
| 1:30.1 | Right, right. Weird times, no doubt. |
| 1:33.5 | I mean, weird times for most folks, you know, because obviously a lot of people are getting used to being at home and the social distancing thing has been a, I know, a challenge for a lot of |
| 1:39.3 | people on my Facebook feed, a lot of friends and family, and I'm sure lots of people around the country, definitely getting used to this whole being home, not going out more than they need to, not going out to restaurants and bars and things like that. So I'm sure it's a major adjustment for a lot of people, though for me, it's less of an adjustment because I've been working from home for like a decade now. So it's it's kind of the same for me in a lot of ways. |
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