Credit Card Power-Ups | Coffee Break Ep54 | 4-29-25
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
There are credit cards that help make your points actually more valuable, just by having the credit card on hand. You can find all of the cards discussed on this show on our Best Offers page.
Coffee Break: Credit Card Power-Ups(00:40) - United: Discounted awards, ability to upgrade
(01:38) - Delta: 15% discount
(01:54) - JetBlue 10% rebate
(02:20) - Aeroplan: 1.25 PYB, better award pricing
(02:55) - Avianca Lifemiles Elite: Comes with Lifemiles+ Lite (10% discount on awards)
(04:09) - Spirit points pooling
(04:58) - IHG: 4th night free (& 10% back old card)
(06:00) - Wyndham 10% discount
(06:50) - Hilton 5th Night Free
(07:33) - Amex Membership Rewards: Business Platinum card 35% rebate
(08:49) - Chase: make the points on your cash back card transferrable, 1.25/1.5
(10:32) - Capital One: make cash back points transferrable
(11:49) - Citi: make cash back points transferrable, 10% rebate
(14:54) - Wells: make cash Transferrable
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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. |
| 0:11.9 | Welcome to Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:16.8 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less for your money back. |
| 0:22.2 | Today's coffee break, credit card power-ups. |
| 0:25.3 | It turns out there are a lot of credit cards that will make your points more valuable |
| 0:30.4 | just by having those credit cards. |
| 0:32.3 | So we're going to go through a whole bunch of them, probably not all. |
| 0:35.5 | I doubt we've thought of all the examples, but there's some really good ones in here. |
| 0:39.4 | So we're just going to dive in, go through a bunch of ways in which you can make your points |
| 0:43.5 | more valuable. |
| 0:44.9 | Yep. |
| 0:45.1 | I heard the Super Mario Brothers music, the power up music going as you were saying that. |
| 0:49.0 | Everybody dead. |
| 0:50.0 | Everybody dead. |
| 0:50.9 | Good. |
| 0:52.4 | We're going to start with United First. |
| 0:54.9 | So all of the cards that have an annual fee give you discounted award pricing on select flights. |
| 1:02.1 | So when you run an award search, sometimes you'll find like a cardholder discount. |
| 1:09.0 | But that's not all. |
| 1:10.2 | You also, with most of the cards that have annual fees, except for the |
| 1:14.7 | Explorer card, you get complementary upgrades on award flights if you have elite status. Another way of |
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