Deal of the Year 2024 | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep287 | 12-27-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
What are the best miles and points deals we've seen in 2024, and which deals came out above the rest? In today's episode of Frequent Miler on the Air, we'll decide what we think the best miles and points deal of 2024 was.
(01:05) - Feedback about Greg's "Frequent Miler’s 2024 State of the Business Report"
Read Greg's "Frequent Miler’s 2024 State of the Business Report" here.
(08:12) - Additional datapoints regarding possible Atlantis stays for after February 1st
(12:14) - Greg's Marriott Mattress Run
(20:48) - Capital One Offers
(26:18) - Easily extend National Free Day
(28:41) - Catch our "Bonvoyed of the Year" episode from last week to see which loyalty snafus we thought were the worst in 2024.
(29:11) - Buy Aeroplan miles for 1.14cpp: Read more about buying Aeroplan miles here.
(30:41) - Big payouts via Capital One Shopping
(36:35) - Virgin goes dynamic & lowers surcharges Read more about Virgin's dynamic pricing here.
(40:00) - Bilt transfer bonus up to 150% to Flying Blue, Virgin Points, and IHG One Rewards (Jan 1)
(42:19) - Bilt transfer bonus up to 100% to Alaska (July 1)
(44:05) - Amex +10x restaurants referral offer Read more about this Amex referral offer here.
(47:11) - 120K Ink Business Preferred offer + 40K referral
(48:27) - Hilton SLH
(53:20) - Alaska's awesome shorthaul AA pricing Read more about the Alaksa award chart winners and losers here.
(57:41) - SAS Eurobonus Millionaire
Read more about the SAS Eurobonus Millionaire challenge here: https://frequentmiler.com/sas-eurobonus-millionaire-promo-frequently-asked-questions-million-mile-madness-2024/
(1:00:02) - Which did we actually take advantage of? (Or which didn't we?)
(1:01:59) - So...which was the best?
(1:13:17) - Can you swap a cash seat you've already purchased with Southwest with a companion seat with your companion pass instead?
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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? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.4 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:27.1 | Today's main event, deal of the year, 2024. |
| 0:31.0 | We're going to go over some of the best miles and points deals that we saw in 2024, |
| 0:36.2 | and ultimately, both Nick and I will pick which ones we think |
| 0:39.9 | were the single deal of the year. Yeah. And remember, if you want to go back and check out one of |
| 0:45.9 | those specific deals or some other segment on the show, don't forget to expand the show notes |
| 0:49.5 | because you'll always find timestamps. So you get links to click around and go to the different |
| 0:54.1 | parts of the show you want to listen to. And we'll always have links to more information. So if you want to hear about that amazing deal that you missed, you can find a link probably to the post that we wrote about it in the show notes. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to leave us a comment, give us a thumbs up. You know, if you're watching on YouTube, like the video, |
| 1:11.4 | if you're listening in podcast platform, leave us a bunch of stars. We always appreciate those |
| 1:15.1 | things. Thank you very much for that. And let's drag out this week's Giant Mailbag. |
| 1:19.5 | All right. This week's Giant Mail has two pieces of mail. The first is from me. |
| 1:26.7 | Basically, I'm going to talk about a post I wrote, which was called Frequent Milers' |
| 1:31.9 | 2024 State of the Business Report. |
| 1:35.0 | So each year for the last several years, I've been, you know, posting about how we did, |
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