Elite status from home | Ep 113 | 8-28-21
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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1:08 Giant Mailbag 4:41 What crazy thing...did Alitalia do this week? 11:10 Mattress running the numbers: At what price should you mattress run the new Wyndham promotions? https://frequentmiler.com/wyndham-earn-3000-bonus-points-when-booking-weekday-stays-check-in-sun-wed/ 18:52 Main Event: Elite status from home https://frequentmiler.com/shopping-for-status-airline-edition-inspired-by-passing-the-guc/ https://frequentmiler.com/shopping-for-status-car-rental-edition/ https://frequentmiler.com/american-airlines-platinum-pro-status-fast-track-via-world-of-hyatt/ 51:56 Question of the Week: Rental car prices keep changing. How can you make sure you're getting the best price?
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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. |
| 0:12.2 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:19.4 | Today's main event, elite status from home. |
| 0:23.4 | You don't have to travel the world, stay in hotels, fly everywhere, drive rental cars in |
| 0:28.9 | order to get elite status. |
| 0:30.8 | Wait, what? |
| 0:32.5 | How does that work? |
| 0:34.3 | Yeah, well, you know, there are tricks, and we're going to talk about them. But, you know, |
| 0:38.3 | once you get elite status, we're talking about things like free upgrades, uh, sometimes waived change |
| 0:44.6 | fees, and other other goodies that make travel better. So do I get those goodies from home also? |
| 0:51.4 | No. No, no, no, got to got to go out. You have to, you have to travel to, to to enjoy these things you don't have to travel |
| 0:57.0 | but you don't have to travel to get them and that's that's that's that's the key like who wants |
| 1:02.2 | to travel as a non-elie in order to get perks in the future what you want to do is get the |
| 1:09.1 | perks up front and then go travel and enjoy them, right? |
| 1:11.9 | Right, right. Exactly. So, yeah. So that's what we're going to be talking about today for the main |
| 1:16.5 | event. First, we've got the giant mail bag. Today's giant mail comes from Charles. And this giant |
| 1:24.3 | mail is kind of small because this is in reaction to the post we did about the |
| 1:31.6 | AARP membership, which you can get five years for $45. |
| 1:37.8 | So that's really, really cheap. |
| 1:39.9 | Nine bucks a year, right? |
| 1:41.1 | Nine bucks. |
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