Chase adds Air Canada as transfer partner! | Ep 110 | 8-7-21
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
- 00:00:25 Giant mailbag (Airlines set award rates just above saver level)
- 00:04:55 Mattress Running the Numbers: Hilton Amex Offer (20% rebate) + Triple points promo + Aspire card $250 rebate
- 00:13:22 What Crazy Thing Did Southwest Airlines Do This Week? Southwest drops segments w/out notice. Many readers "enjoyed" the same treatment.
- 00:20:09 Main Event: Is the addition of Aeroplan to Chase Ultimate Rewards really great news? Greg and Nick debate.
- 00:45:44 New Chase Aeroplan credit cards expected in November 2021. Are we excited? What kind of welcome bonuses can we expect?
- 00:49:25 Post roast. Nick takes Greg to task for failing to discuss how to manage points and credit card cancellations when in "two player mode" (e.g. when managing cards and points for a significant other.)
- 00:55:55 Question of the week. A reader overpaid taxes (using a credit card, of course), but the IRS hasn't yet refunded the overpayment 6 months later. This is more of a caution than a question.
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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. |
| 0:12.2 | Frequent Myler on the air starts now. |
| 0:19.5 | Today's main event, Air Canada, is added as a Chase Ultimate Awards transfer partner. |
| 0:26.0 | Is that great news? |
| 0:28.0 | Hmm. |
| 0:29.2 | We'll see. |
| 0:30.5 | Hmm. |
| 0:31.6 | We'll find out soon. |
| 0:32.7 | Nick and I are rubbing our chins. |
| 0:34.4 | Hmm. |
| 0:37.1 | But first, let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:41.9 | Today's mail comes from Tony. |
| 0:43.9 | Tony had a comment on my post, actually, about this topic. |
| 0:47.9 | I wrote about how Chase added Air Canada as a transfer partner and I compared the award rates of United |
| 0:59.6 | versus Air Canada booking the same Star Alliance awards. And what Tony wrote was with dynamic |
| 1:07.6 | award pricing these days, comparison solely based on saver awards is no longer appropriate. |
| 1:13.5 | Both of these airlines seem to purposely price most of their award tickets at prices just above the saver levels, |
| 1:19.9 | making these redemptions unavailable to their partners. |
| 1:23.7 | Okay. |
| 1:24.0 | So I mentioned this particular comment, not so much because of how it reflects on my post, |
| 1:33.3 | but because my post was more about third party partner awards booking, you know, A&A and Turkish and other airlines. |
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