Bright spots in the latest award. devaluations | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep245
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Award program changes often sting, but remember that those storm clouds often have a silver lining. On this week's episode, we discuss the bright spots in the most recent hotel and airline program devaluations
(00:00:00) Intro (00:01:45) Giant Mailbag triple-header!
See episode 244 for more details about Platinum cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDh7EUEsf2Y (00:01:50) Schwab bonus with $10mil (00:02:56) Schwab mortgage counts toward assets (00:05:50) Don't forget Amex corporate cardholders get statement credits (00:07:22) Card Talk: Wells Fargo is launching their transferable points program https://frequentmiler.com/wells-fargo-launching-autograph-journey-visa-card-transferable-points-up-to-5x-earnings-more/
(00:19:33) What crazy thing . . . did Turkish Miles & Smiles do this week? https://frequentmiler.com/turkish-offers-an-award-sale-thats-very-turkish-miles-smiles-of-them/ (00:23:46) Award Talk (00:23:47) American Airlines Award Sale: Seats for 5K each way https://frequentmiler.com/american-airlines-award-sale-500k-seats-for-5k-miles-with-great-availability/
(00:27:59) Rio Las Vegas joins World of Hyatt https://frequentmiler.com/world-of-hyatt-benefits-at-rio-las-vegas-your-questions-answered/
(00:30:20) Main Event: Bright spots in the latest award devaluations
(00:30:48) Hyatt devaluation https://frequentmiler.com/ouch-hyatts-2024-devaluation-has-been-announced-its-not-pretty/ (00:41:07) Wyndham Vacasa devaluation https://frequentmiler.com/wyndham-vacasa/
(00:47:14) Etihad devaluation (00:53:46) ANA devaluation https://frequentmiler.com/the-ana-devaluation-its-not-all-doom-and-gloom/
(01:02:10) Turkish devaluation https://frequentmiler.com/turkish-might-be-demolishing-its-award-chart/ (01:10:09) Question of the Week: If you book a hotel through the AAdvantage shopping portal, will the miles be dated based on the booking date or the checkout date?
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's main event, bright spots in the latest award devaluations. |
| 0:31.6 | We've seen award devaluations lately in a host of programs ranging from Hyatt to Turkish to Vakasa, well, Wyndham, |
| 0:40.8 | Vakasa to ANA and the good news here, we're going to be talking not so much about those devaluations. |
| 0:48.7 | We'll explain what they are, but we're going to be talking about the bright spots. |
| 0:52.1 | There's actually a lot of good news buried in there. |
| 0:54.5 | And overall, I think we have a lot of good news in this overall show as well. |
| 1:01.0 | You'll see in Card Talk and elsewhere. |
| 1:03.4 | So I'm actually looking forward to this show, despite it being about devaluations. |
| 1:08.5 | Anytime there's devaluation news, I know I can count on Greg's glass half full, you know, |
| 1:13.7 | analysis of what, you know, what is there still to be happy about in this devaluation? |
| 1:20.2 | I'm glad you appreciate that. |
| 1:21.7 | That is definitely my orientation. |
| 1:25.3 | And yeah, but I'm not making stuff up there's there's some good stuff here anyway |
| 1:31.6 | we'll get to that in a second but in the meantime if you're listening to this or watching this don't |
| 1:36.1 | forget that there are timestamps in the show notes so you can go down to the show notes and jump |
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