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Frequent Miler on the Air

Chase Battles for the Middle | Ep119 | 10-9-21

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

1:07 Giant Mailbag

3:56 What crazy thing...did American Express do this week?

https://frequentmiler.com/amex-platinum-adds-walmart-and-soulcycle-benefits/

9:21 Mattress Running the Numbers: The Weak Link in Marriott's Week of Wonders

14:55 Main Event: Chase Battles for the Middle

https://frequentmiler.com/new-world-of-hyatt-business-credit-card-launches/

https://frequentmiler.com/manufacturing-hyatt-status-with-the-new-business-card/

41:30 Post Roast Greg's roast of Nick: https://frequentmiler.com/now-11-capital-one-improves-transfer-ratio-for-almost-all-airline-programs/

Nick's roast of Greg: https://frequentmiler.com/manufacturing-hyatt-status-with-the-new-business-card/

52:23 Question of the Week: How do you know which transactions are qualifying as a small business?

https://frequentmiler.com/yes-your-new-platinum-card-is-earning-10x-where-appropriate/ (note that this is about the previous set of bonus categories, but it shows you where to look)

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Music credit: Annie Yoder

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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 Miller on the air starts now.

0:19.6

Today's main event, Chase, battles for the middle.

0:23.6

But battling for mediocrity just doesn't sound exciting.

0:29.2

Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure that Chase would put it that way, that they're battling for mediocrity.

0:34.7

But what we're talking, yeah, what we're talking about is, is there are ultra premium

0:40.7

credit cards out there that are the, you know, very, very expensive over $400 cards.

0:45.4

Then there's the low end cards that are under $100.

0:48.9

And then there's the stuff in the middle.

0:51.2

And Chase seems to be planning their flag and saying this is where we're going

0:55.9

to battle right here, right now, the last ones to come to that party to begin with, basically. And

1:00.6

maybe not the last. We'll talk more about it. Certainly, MX has been sitting in the middle for a while

1:06.4

now and has, I think, a very strong presence in the middle.

1:15.3

So Chase has some fighting to do, but we'll, yeah, we'll discuss that.

1:18.4

First, giant mailbag time.

1:22.0

So this is giant mail in every sense of the word.

1:25.2

I printed it out in giant font so that I could read it.

1:28.7

But it's also giant in that there's a lot of words here.

1:37.4

It's more than one page. But yeah, this came through on our website, our contact us forum. This came from Jane. And I wanted to read this here because it's sort of a good commercial for our show and our website.

1:50.0

But it's not in our words.

1:51.4

So this is nice.

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