Growing Points via Transfer Bonuses | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep266 | 8-2-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 3 August 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
We love points that are transferable because we love the optionality of transferring to different hotel and airline partners, but also because there are sometimes transfer bonuses that you can take advantage of to maximize that value - just another reason to love transferable points.
(01:33) - Conflicting reports on the ability to transfer IHG points for FREE
(01:39) - Find How to gift free hotel nights - Ep265 here
(09:20) - Huge Amex Membership Rewards offers
(10:25) - Read more about the Amex Business Gold card here
(11:07) - Read more about the Amex Platinum card here
(11:19) - Read more about the Amex Gold card here
(13:40) - If you get the Amex refer-a-friend error message: try using a different browser
(15:43) - How do American Express Hilton credits work at SLH & AutoCamp?
(19:15) - New blog resource: How to maximize your Hilton cards (with upgrades and downgrades)
(19:47) - Chase Ink Business card 120K offer
See: How to apply for Chase Ink cards here
(21:04) - Bilt torpedoes Rent Day doubling, initially hiding the news in terms & conditions
(26:02) - Current notable transfer bonuses...
(27:22) - Which current transfer bonuses are worth (many people) considering even without a plan?
Main Event: Growing Points via Transfer Bonuses(32:00) - What makes transferable points great?
(35:08) - Transferring your points goes one direction so you can't transfer them back if you change your mind... so when is it an obvious idea, even if you don't have a known use in mind?
(42:26) - Things to consider before transferring your points (if it's not obvious because of known uses)
(47:21) - See expired transfer bonuses here
(56:33) - Which programs should you avoid transferring to if you don't already have a specific plan for how to use them?
(59:35) - Which programs are more or less safe to transfer to, even if you don't already have a plan for how to use them?
(1:05:23) - One reader got the Chase Freedom Unlimited card, then got denied for the Chase Sapphire Preferred card for being at max exposure, despite reducing the limit on the Freedom card. What can they do? This post again could be useful.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | 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. |
| 0:13.6 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.9 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.1 | The main event. |
| 0:22.4 | Frequent Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:27.0 | Today's main event, growing points via transfer bonuses. |
| 0:31.7 | So we love points that are transferable. |
| 0:35.0 | So these are like points from Amex and Chase and City and Capital One and others, where you can |
| 0:41.1 | transfer to airline and hotel programs because sometimes that means you can get rewards |
| 0:46.9 | that are much cheaper that way and get much better value for your points. |
| 0:51.6 | But another reason we love transferable points is sometimes you |
| 0:54.5 | could get even better value by transferring, doing those transfers when there's a transfer bonus in |
| 1:00.1 | place where you get even more points than you normally would by transferring to an airliner |
| 1:04.6 | hotel program. So our main event will be all about how best to do that, when to do that, and whether |
| 1:10.0 | you should do that. And of course, if you would like to grow your transfer bonus pile, your pile of points, then you should probably consider subscribing to our email list. That's at frequent myler.com slash subscribe. And of course, whatever you're watching, this show, don't forget to give it a like or a thumbs up. We always appreciate that. And don't forget that if you listen to this show and you say, oh, I want to go back and listen to a segment again, or you'd like to skip ahead to a different segment. You can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the description box in order to find those timestamps and click your way around. So let's click right forward to this week's giant mailbag. |
| 1:45.6 | All right. Today's giant mail is in reference to our podcast episode 265 called How to Gift |
| 1:52.1 | Free Hotel Nights. In that show, we talked about how you can transfer IHG points to someone else for free if you either have diamond status |
| 2:03.5 | or you join IHG's business rewards program. And the giant mail we're going to talk about |
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