Citi's awesome rewards program | Ep219 | 9-9-23
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Citi's ThankYou program gets lets attention than other major bank rewards point programs, but it has some unique strengths that deserve your attention. This week, Greg and Nick determine whether and for whom Citi can be an awesome option.
00:00 Intro
00:47 Giant Mailbag
03:38 Mattress Running the Numbers
03:40 Marriott Homes & Villas promo
04:45 Wyndham points on sale for less than 1cpp
08:27 Buy Finnair Plus points
12:44 Award Talk
12:46 Now transfer Virgin points to a friend with low flat fee
15:04 Air France to deepen partnership with Etihad
17:45 Rooms.aero launches
21:22 Main Event: Citi's awesome rewards program
22:56 High-level view of positives and negatives
24:14 Citi's ThankYou credit cards'
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31:55 Citi's unique-ish transfer partners
38:30 Other useful Citi partners
51:34 Question of the Week: Downgrade strategy from Sapphire Preferred to Freedom
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | 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 Liler on the air starts now. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's main event, City's awesome rewards program. |
| 0:30.6 | Did you mean City's pretty good rewards program, Craig? |
| 0:35.6 | We tend to give city short shrift. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm not sure I'm using the word right, but... |
| 0:40.7 | I think you meant it's okay. |
| 0:43.0 | It's lukewarm program. |
| 0:44.9 | I'm going to try to convince you it's awesome. |
| 0:47.6 | Their thank you program is awesome. |
| 0:50.9 | So we will talk about that in today's main event. |
| 0:58.1 | And first, of course course we have the giant mailbag but I do want to mention something someone wrote into us saying I |
| 1:02.3 | guess this is a giant mailbag segment now that I think about it because this is |
| 1:05.4 | you're right somebody wrote in right so someone wrote in saying you guys really ought to introduce yourselves. And I think |
| 1:13.5 | that's a good idea. I'm Greg Davis-Kee. I'm the founder of Frequent Miler. And I'm here, as always, |
| 1:21.9 | with Nicholas Reyes, the legend, the Fedora man. |
| 1:28.5 | What can I say? |
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