Hacking Asia Miles mixed cabin awards and more
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
This week, Greg and Nick Discuss:
-Chase's no-notice elimination of the Ritz discount airfare benefit: why Greg thinks this might be good news.
-Is DoorDash DashPass a good benefit on the CSR? Was Nick right to value the CSR's DoorDash credit at full value?
-Hacking Asia Miles: How to fly first class for less and when and where it might be worth it.
All that plus reader feedback, the question of the week, and more.
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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. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to Freguinmiler on the air. This week we are going to be talking about hacking Cathay-Pacific |
| 0:17.5 | Asia Miles. But we actually have a lot of other really hot topics to cover first. |
| 0:24.1 | So I'm looking forward to all of that, including talking about the latest Ritz development, |
| 0:28.3 | which is not so great. |
| 0:31.5 | Before we get into that, though, your favorite segment is reader feedback time. |
| 0:35.0 | It's my favorite. |
| 0:36.2 | Let's jump right into it. This week's reader feedback. You know what? |
| 0:41.6 | I'm throwing us a softball this week. Oh, okay. Because I feel like I know I need it because my |
| 0:50.4 | vacation brain going on. No, it's it's it's it's how bad I did with all the predictions that we talked about last week and the week before. |
| 0:58.9 | So, I decided to, uh, just give us a nice pat on the back reader feedback today. |
| 1:06.2 | Okay. |
| 1:06.7 | This one, this one's from Bombay Mike. |
| 1:08.9 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:10.2 | Bombay Mike says. |
| 1:11.1 | What does Mike have to say? |
| 1:12.5 | He says, first, I am writing to let you know how much I enjoyed your last FM on the air. |
| 1:18.7 | I'm not normally a podcast kind of guy, prefer to read, a random access rather than a sequential medium, and have only listened to fragments of your previous ones. |
| 1:28.7 | But I really enjoyed the relaxed discussion and a debate over the CSR, that's the Sapphire Reserve, |
| 1:34.1 | pros and cons that reflected exactly the points I am torn over when trying to value the new benefits and fee. |
| 1:42.0 | Your back-and-forth arguments and gentle ribbing, in |
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