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Frequent Miler on the Air

Domestic flights for less | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep301 | 4-11-25

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9640 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we highlight the credit cards that are becoming "collectables", we had a heated debate about "Strawberry season", discuss changes from ANA and Alaska Airlines, and share tips for saving on your domestic flights.

(01:29) - Delta Sky Club access with multiple American Express platinum cards in your name...


(06:40) - [Expired] Chase Sapphire Preferred 100K (Read more about this offer here)


(07:58) - United Business 125K ...


(08:59) - Citi Rewards+ no longer available new OR for product changes


(12:05) - US Bank Smartly changes for new cardholders as of 4/14. Read about the US Bank Smartly card changes here.


(18:50) - Strawberry Hotels Summer Pass 2025 (Read more about this Strawberry Hotels Summer Pass here)


(25:14) - IHG increases top award rates at Intercontinental hotels to 200K+ per night


(27:02) - Amex Biz Plat nerfs Dell credits


(31:57) - ANA Round the World award tickets are dead as of June 24th


(34:46) - More ANA news starting June 24


Read more about these ANA updates here.


(38:32) - Updates from Alaska Airlines


(40:29) - Tools/services to find cheapest cash rates (e.g. google flights)


(42:30) - Tools/services to find cheapest award prices (e.g. points path)


Read our "Which Award Search Tool is Best" post here.


(44:58) - Saving miles with partner awards


(49:21) - Credit card travel discounts/rebates


(52:59) - Find our Amex Airline Reimbursement Fees post here.


(54:46) - Companion tickets


(1:03:26) - Pay w/ points through a bank travel portal


(1:05:30) - Cardholder award discounts (Delta, United, JetBlue, etc.)


(1:06:32) - Discounted Airline gift cards


(1:07:59) - Membership discounts


(1:09:36) - Change the way you book it


(1:17:46) - Read more about skiplagging here.


(1:18:42) - Choosing between the Amex Hilton Aspire card or the Amex Bonvoy Brilliant card: Do you think Bonvoy will listen to the negative feedback and will get better? And will Hilton get worse because they've been too generous?


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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder

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0:00.0

This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at

0:07.1

voyescape.com.

0:11.0

Today's show, we're going to highlight some cards that are becoming collectibles. There's a heated

0:15.7

debate about strawberry season. Both Greg and I agree on some of the big changes coming from A&A and Alaska,

0:22.2

and we'll talk about a grab bag worth of ways for you to save on your domestic flights.

0:27.8

Frequent Miller on the air starts now.

0:32.5

Today's main event, domestic flights for less. On today's show, we're going to talk about a whole, on today's

0:38.9

show, we're going to talk about a whole bunch of different ways to save money on domestic flights.

0:44.2

Someone had reached out recently asking me personally how I was able to fly on Delta from Detroit,

0:53.0

which is a Delta hub.

0:55.1

And instead of talking just about Delta, you know, I do a whole bunch of different things

1:02.4

to get cheaper flights.

1:05.9

And so instead of just talking about Delta, we're going to talk about how to fly domestically

1:10.8

for less with a whole bunch of different techniques. And I love to pay less. This episode is not brought to you by pay less. But does it pay less this shoes even exist anymore? I don't know if they do, but they definitely didn't sponsor this episode. We'll talk about paying less today, but if you would like to jump ahead

1:28.2

or you'd like to come back to something later, don't forget, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes or just expand the show description and wherever you're watching or listening. Don't forget to like this video. Give us a thumbs up. Leave us a review and some stars. We always appreciate all of that. All right. Let's drag out this week's Giant Mailbag. All right. Today's giant mail comes from Adi.

1:46.7

So before I read Adi's mail, I just want to remind people what P1 and P2 means.

1:54.1

So we talk about this hobby as a game often, where the person doing most of the miles and point stuff signing up for credit

2:02.7

cards booking awards all that kind of thing is p1 player one and player two tends to is often the

2:09.6

significant other of player one but not always uh it could be a friend or it could be uh whatever but

2:15.2

uh we refer to that person as p2. And so with that out of the way,

2:19.9

let me read Adi's giant mail. Adi says, in one of the recent episodes about Delta Sky Club

2:26.0

access, you were discussing ways to get a guest in with you, and you said that having multiple

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