Dissecting the deal: United Business Class to New Zealand and beyond | Ep147 | 4-23-22
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🗓️ 23 April 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
United recently offered business class seats to many destinations around the world for 60K miles each way. Was it a great deal that everyone should have booked? We each share our thought process with this kind of deal and why one of us booked it and one of us didn't.
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15:12 Dissecting the deal: 60K awards to New Zealand and beyond
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | 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? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.9 | Today's main event, dissecting the deal. |
| 0:30.5 | United business class to New Zealand and beyond. |
| 0:34.7 | The deal's dead, but we're going to talk about should you have jumped on it? Could you |
| 0:39.9 | have? Is it really that good of a deal? All these topics are worth discussing. And, you know, |
| 0:46.8 | I think it's worth discussing because next time there's something like this, it helps to know. |
| 0:52.3 | Is this something that you need to jump on right away before it's gone? |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, I'm excited to talk about this a little bit because, you know, I thought about it and I think |
| 1:00.2 | talking about the way we thought through it and what we did and why we did or didn't do it, |
| 1:04.8 | I feel like there's some interesting discussion there. So I'll be curious to get into that |
| 1:09.0 | with you in a few minutes. But first, oh, no, I'm |
| 1:13.9 | I thought you had a new first. I was teeing it up for you. You were getting ahead of me. All right. |
| 1:18.5 | First, the giant mail bag. And today's giant mail comes from me. So it's almost sort of like a |
| 1:25.1 | post-rose in advance, because I'm'm using I'm taking advantage of my time here |
| 1:29.5 | because Nick you've written a few times about how the Capital One portal for booking hotels |
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