How to find the best flight awards | Ep140 | 3-5-22
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Booking award flights can be difficult, frustrating and time-consuming -- but it doesn't have to be. This week, we talk about the challenges of booking the best flight awards and how to overcome them.
00:56 Giant Mailbag
2:29 What crazy thing....did American Airlines do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/gregs-american-airlines-loyalty-point-progress/
10:50 Mattress running the numbers / Mileage running the numbers
https://frequentmiler.com/2200-aadvantage-miles-and-6-meals-for-34-with-green-chef-and-chase-offer/
14:43 Main Event: How to find the best flight awards
20:29 Individual airline miles
22:15 The Kayak-like tools for award flights
https://frequentmiler.com/taking-award-logic-for-a-test-drive/
32:22 Expert Flyer
40:27 SeatSpy
https://frequentmiler.com/seatspy-an-awesome-tool-for-finding-ba-and-virgin-award-flights/
47:10 How do you know an award flight is a good deal?
50:44 What about booking through bank travel portals?
59:15 Question of the Week: Can you get the Venture X card if you already have two Capital One personal cards?
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's main event. |
| 0:27.6 | How to find the best flight awards. |
| 0:30.6 | So finding award flights is not that easy. |
| 0:34.6 | Not always. |
| 0:35.6 | I mean, I guess it's easier if you've got like one person, right? |
| 0:40.3 | But if you're booking for more than one person and or you don't have a lot of free time |
| 0:44.8 | in your hands, it can be a pain. |
| 0:47.3 | Well, it can be heard even with one if you don't know what you're doing. |
| 0:50.3 | I mean, there's so many possibilities out there. |
| 0:52.3 | There's so many, even if you find awards, how do you know which miles to use to book them? |
| 0:57.0 | Because not all miles are baked the same, so to speak. |
| 1:01.3 | So we're going to talk about how to find and book the best flight awards. |
| 1:07.1 | But, of course, first, giant mailbag time. |
| 1:10.1 | So John writes in, in response to our discussions about |
| 1:14.1 | American Airlines loyalty points and the loyalty game, as we've called it. So little background, |
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