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Frequent Miler on the Air

Delta Devaluations and Sweet Spot Awards | Ep86 | 2-19-21

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

00:40 Giant Mailbag: "It's like a 21c hotel on steroids"

3:52 What crazy thing...did Nick's wife do this week?

10:07 Mattress running the numbers: Last call for a Hyatt mattress run

https://frequentmiler.com/ludicrously-easy-path-to-hyatt-globalist-status-top-tier-status-for-2-years/

https://frequentmiler.com/hyatt-cash-or-points-worksheet/

16:50 Mattress running the numbers: Planning your Marriott mattress run

https://frequentmiler.com/marriott-launches-easy-elite-status-for-2021-and-cheaper-saver-awards/

https://frequentmiler.com/official-word-marriott-mixed-paid-award-stays-will-earn-double-credit/

22:20 Main Event: Delta devaluations and sweet spots

https://frequentmiler.com/delta-miles-are-worth-less-on-my-mind/

Delta devaluation for partners to Europe: https://frequentmiler.com/ouch-big-delta-devaluation-on-partner-awards/

40:12 Good uses of Delta miles: https://frequentmiler.com/best-uses-for-delta-miles/

50:45 Post Roast: I spy with my little eye...missing updates from the SeatSpy post!

https://frequentmiler.com/seatspy-an-awesome-tool-for-finding-ba-and-virgin-award-flights/

https://frequentmiler.com/lie-flat-to-hawaii-how-to-use-seatspy-to-find-saver-awards/

55:58 Question of the Week: Does it make sense to get a VPN or Google Fi for a 4-month trip abroad?

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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.

0:12.0

Frequent Miller on the air starts now.

0:19.6

Today's main event, Delta Dealuations and Sweet Spot Awards.

0:25.0

Hmm.

0:26.0

Are there sweet spots on Delta?

0:28.2

Well, that's why we had to have two subjects here.

0:30.5

Because if we just made the show about Delta's sweet spot awards, it'd be our shortest show ever.

0:36.5

I mean, should it be like the Delta Saccharin Awards or, you know, Sweet and Law Awards? It's like, I mean, are they sweet? Maybe a little salty. Salty, right. We'll talk about it. Salty awards. We'll talk about this. Yeah. Of course, first we have the giant mailbag, which I, of course, have. So let's see what's in the giant mailbag today.

0:57.0

You know, by the way, as you reach in there, I got to say,

0:59.4

I keep meaning to bring a piece of mail that got misdirected here for giant mailbag.

1:05.1

And I keep forgetting it, but for the person who sent that piece of mail in,

1:09.2

it's just misplaced.

1:10.9

It's here somewhere,

1:11.9

but it will make its way in to the giant mail back one of these days.

1:15.6

Okay.

1:16.1

All right.

1:16.6

All right.

1:17.1

So that's good to know.

1:18.1

So I'll remind you maybe next out to find that piece of mail under your

1:22.7

sofa cushion or wherever.

1:24.5

Right.

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