Capital One: Get more for your Double Miles | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep293 | 2-7-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode the fellas chat about how to get the Southwest Companion Pass with just one card, whether or not your Marriott points just became more valuable, and how to get great value out of Capital One miles.
(01:17) - One of our younger readers talks about a huge award booking success, all achieved without pro award booking tools.
(05:40) - Quick overview of the Million Mile Madness challenge
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(10:27) - Get Southwest Companion Pass through 2/28/26
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(13:25) - Frontier Platinum status fast track: Earn 20k Elite Status Points by 4/30/25
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(18:46) - Transfer bonuses
(21:13) - Earn 20x Avios on hotel bookings & 15x on car hire (book by 2/24/25)
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(23:58) - Use JetBlue points to book TAP
(25:04) - Refreshing posts about award booking tools
(30:50) - Are Marriott points more valuable?
Learn more about the value of Marriott points here.
(33:54) - My experience applying for the UK’s electronic travel authorisation (ETA)
Learn more about the UK ETA here.
(36:15) - Capital One Miles usually worth exactly 1 cent each
(37:21) - Get more than 1 cent per mile via transfer partners
(38:49) - Real-life examples...
(49:04) - Cardholder exclusives
(51:00) - Capital One cash back can be converted to miles
(53:08) - Which flight reward search tool is best if I need specific dates and locations?
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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. |
| 0:11.3 | On today's show, we're going to talk about how to get a Southwest companion pass with just a single card. |
| 0:16.5 | We'll discuss whether your Marriott points just became more valuable. |
| 0:20.9 | And we'll show you how to get great value out of your Capital One miles. |
| 0:25.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:29.8 | Today's main event, Capital One, get more for your double miles. |
| 0:35.2 | Jennifer Garner loves to talk about how her venture and venture X cards get |
| 0:40.1 | double miles everywhere. But by default, you might not be getting the most value you can from |
| 0:47.1 | those double miles. We're going to talk about how to do that, how you get more than the default |
| 0:52.3 | amount for your double miles. Yeah, I mean, for years, we weren't particularly excited about Capital One miles because there weren't so many opportunities to get outsized value. |
| 1:01.0 | But over these last several years, things have just really exploded. |
| 1:05.0 | And Capital One Miles have become way more valuable than you may have previously thought. |
| 1:09.0 | So we'll talk about that today. |
| 1:10.0 | Don't forget, if you want to jump ahead to a specific segment where you want to go back to something and listen to it again, you can find the timestamps in the show notes, just expand those and wherever you're watching or listening. Don't forget to like this. Give it a thumbs up if you're watching it on YouTube. If you're listening in podcast form, leave us a review and a comment. we always appreciate hearing from you all right it's time to drag out this week's giant mail back today's |
| 1:30.8 | giant mail comes from Will. Will says, my name is Will. I'm 16 years old and live in Eugene, Oregon. I started listening to your podcast when I was 15 and haven't missed a single one, except one. Except one. Except one. Just that one. one. Except one. I understand. Now I'm really curious which one he missed. I just wanted to thank you for everything that you guys have taught me, especially on the redeeming side, because it's a little harder to earn points when you can't get credit cards. Today, I made my first big award booking. Of course, it wasn't for me because I'm too young. |
| 2:02.1 | I did this for my grandparents with their small stash of ultimate rewards points. |
| 2:06.8 | They are going on a Nile River cruise next November, and they challenged me to get the two of them |
| 2:11.5 | to Tel Aviv and back from Amman in business class for under $8,000 because that was what the cruise line was charging. |
| 2:19.3 | I don't have the pro version of any award search tool. |
| 2:22.3 | Hopefully I get it for my birthday. |
| 2:24.3 | But I was able to find Turkish availability from Boston to Athens on Air Canada for 70,000 points. |
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