Fly to 6 continents, earn 1 million miles | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep313 | 7-4-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
In today's Frequent Miler on the Air episode, Greg bypasses 5/24, Nick flies a donut plane towards earning status and 350,000 miles, and we run the numbers on Turkish's million mile promo.
Giant Mailbag
(01:58) - Virgin Atlantic substantially increases fees on award tickets. But one door closes, another opens.
Read more about Virgin Atlantic increasing fees on award tickets here.
Card News
(04:17) - Sapphire Reserve for Business℠ Card approved over 5/24
Bonvoyed
(09:46) - Chase Ink Business Premier®: Effective October 7th, 2025, you will be eligible to receive referral bonus awards for new Chase Business card customers only.
(13:00) - Chase Aeroplan transfers are SLOW
(14:43) - American Express is reducing Emirates transfer ratio to 5:4
(18:12) - Will Southwest nerf the Companion Pass next?
Awards, Points, and More
(23:20) - Flying Blue: better saver award availability for Platinum elites
JetBlue Promo Updates
(29:20) - Promo reminder: fly to 25 destinations, get 350K + 25 years status
Find our episode about the JetBlue promo here.
(30:13) - Nick comments on why he decided to go for it, why he's flying the Dunkin' flight, and the Capital One travel price match experience
(40:52) - Greg discusses his initial evaluation and why he decided no
Main Event: fly to 6 continents, earn 1 million miles
(53:03) - Turkish airlines promo: Fly Across 6 Continents – Earn 1 Million Miles!
(55:55) - Eligible flights
(1:01:36) - Example itinerary for epic trip
(1:06:46) - Are we going for it?
Question of the Week
(1:16:22) - This listener saved up American Express Membership Rewards points for a round the world trip, but then ANA eliminated their round the world award chart. Are there other ways to book a round-the-world trip?
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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 voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.9 | On today's frequent mile around the air, we'll discuss how Greg bypassed the Chase 524 rule. |
| 0:17.3 | I'll talk about my plans to fly the donut plane to help me earn status and make my way towards 350,000 miles, |
| 0:26.4 | and we're going to run the numbers on the Turkish Airlines million mile promotion. |
| 0:31.9 | Frequent mile are on the air starts now. |
| 0:36.4 | Today's main event, fly to six continents, earn one million miles. |
| 0:43.3 | So Turkish Airlines is out with a copycat promotion that copies off of SaaS, |
| 0:52.5 | getting an even airlines promotion that happened last year, |
| 0:55.4 | where SaaS offered a million miles to anyone who flew 15 of their partners during the window of the promotion. |
| 1:04.6 | Now Turkish is like, we can offer a million miles as well, but we're going to be smarter about it, |
| 1:10.8 | and we're going to make |
| 1:11.3 | people fly our own airline, not our, not our partners. Yeah. So, I mean, that kind of makes sense, |
| 1:17.4 | doesn't it? I think part of what amazed us about the SAS Eurobonus challenge was that not only |
| 1:23.4 | was it a huge number of miles, but it was encouraging you to give business to other airlines. So that was a, we thought that was pretty wild at the time. We said if anybody ever offered a million miles, you would think it'd be to spend money with their airline, which is what Turkish is doing. So in fairness, I mean, that makes sense to me. It's just a little bit different this time. Turkish was probably listening to our podcast. |
| 2:03.3 | We'll talk more about that later on. And don't forget, if you want to jump ahead to that, or you want to come back to it later on or listen to a different segment, all you do is expand the show description and you'll find the timestamps in the show notes. And you'll also find links to more information about the stuff that we've been talking about. wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this. Give it a thumbs up. |
| 2:02.4 | Leave us a comment. Leave us some feedback. you'll also find links to more information about the stuff that we've been talking about. Wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this. |
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| 2:07.3 | We always appreciate those things and read them. |
| 2:08.9 | So thank you very much for that. |
| 2:11.1 | Now let's drag out this week's giant mailback. |
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