Chase Sapphire Reserve card: More costly, coupony, and complicated | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep311 | 6-20-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Today we'll talk about how Chase is breaking up the family (rule), we'll discuss whether American Express is high when introducing "as high as" offers, and we'll talk about how Chase has made the Chase Sapphire Reserve card harder to explain and harder and recommend.
(01:27) - How to move Avios between British Airways, Qatar, Iberia, Aer Lingus and Finnair
(04:56) - Major refresh coming to The Platinum Card® from American Express and The Business Platinum Card® from American Express "later this year"
(10:53) - The Business Platinum Card® from American Express ending 35% points rebate on business & first class flights except for selected airline
(13:03) - It seems American Express and Delta may be working on an even more premium card
(15:10) - Chase launching business version of the Chase Sapphire Reserve card Monday June 23.
Find our Coffee Break episode 59 "The real Sapphire Reserve for Business" here.
(16:20) - Removing Sapphire family rule, expanding 48 month rule & allowing new cards without welcome offers
(20:39) - Chase Travel℠ portal ending 1.5c & 1.25c redemptions, replacing with Points Boost
(24:28) - Mesa Homeowners Card now transfers to Air Canada Aeroplan & SAS EuroBonus
(26:52) - Gift of College Cards now sold at Stop & Shop
(29:47) - Jetblue status match
(31:10) - Good Flying Blue business class award availability to/from Europe
(32:13) - Transfer bonus from Chase Ultimate Rewards to Marriott Bonvoy
Main Event: Sapphire Reserve: More costly, coupony, and complicated
(34:01) - New Chase Sapphire Reserve card summary
(40:57) - Unchanged perks
(41:42) - New perks
(44:53) - Unchanged coupons
(45:38) - New coupons
(1:04:52) - Old vs new
(1:14:36) - Chase Sapphire Reserve card timeline
(1:29:30) - Is there a way to game this into one more lower Annual Fee? If for instance we requested changing the billing cycle, could we move it up so it gets billed on Oct 25th and thus is $550?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by 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. |
| 0:10.6 | On today's frequent miler on the air, we discuss Chase, breaking up the family rule. |
| 0:16.9 | We question whether Amex is high when introducing as high as offers. |
| 0:23.0 | And we talk about Chase making the Sapphire Reserve card harder to explain and harder to recommend. |
| 0:30.6 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:34.7 | Today's main event, Sapphire Reserve, more costly, coupony, and complicated. |
| 0:42.3 | The Sapphire Reserve card from Chase has been totally revamped. The new ones coming out on Monday, |
| 0:48.5 | June 23rd, and it's going to be so different in many ways. And as I said, it's going to cost more. It's going to be, have more coupons. And it's going to be so different in many ways. And as I said, it's going to cost more. |
| 0:55.8 | It's going to have more coupons. |
| 0:57.6 | And it's quite a bit more complicated than the old 3x for travel and get 1.5 cents per |
| 1:04.4 | point value when redeeming for travel. |
| 1:07.1 | Yeah, I think the complication is the part that really, of course, requires the most discussion. You have to talk about the complexity of it. And I question a little bit the wisdom in complexifying too much. I would think that it would make more sense to simplify. But hey, we can debate that and discuss that a little bit later. First, don't forget if you want to jump ahead to something or you want to come back to it later on. You can always find the timestamps in the show notes. |
| 1:29.3 | Just expand the show description. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to give us a thumbs up like this episode. We appreciate that. Leave your comments and your feedback too. We love to hear from you. All right. Let's drag out this week's giant mailback. All right. this week's giant mail comes from Never Not Knitting. So you might |
| 1:47.6 | Never Not Knitting. You may or may not know that on our YouTube channel, on Frequent Myler's YouTube |
| 1:53.5 | channel, we have a bunch of how-to videos. And Never Not Knitting replied to the video, how to move avios between British Airways, |
| 2:04.0 | Qatar, Iberia, Aer Lingus, and Finn Air. |
| 2:07.8 | And they write, I want to thank you for this video. |
| 2:12.1 | After spending an hour in total frustration trying to figure out how to transfer my Aer Lingus |
| 2:17.3 | points over to British |
| 2:18.2 | Airways. I finally called Air Lingus hoping they could assist me. The rep on the phone told me |
| 2:23.8 | that transferring from Air Lingus to any other partner that uses Avios was impossible. I followed |
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