How to get amazing value from American Airlines miles | Ep227 | 11-4-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
American Airlines miles can be used to fly some of the fanciest airlines in the world. They can also be really handy for buying domestic flights to/from non-American Airlines hubs. On this week's episode, we discuss some of our favorite ways to get awesome value out of American Airlines miles.
00:00 Intro
01:23 Giant Mailbag
03:50 Card Talk
03:55 New Citi Application Rule
https://frequentmiler.com/possible-citi-5-day-rule-causing-denials-for-too-many-inquiries/
07:04 Plastiq news
https://frequentmiler.com/plastiq-once-again-accepts-amex-cards/
11:28 Card Talk: Delta Reserve cards
https://frequentmiler.com/dlrsv/
https://frequentmiler.com/dlrsvbiz/
22:46 What crazy thing . . . did Dollar Dig do this week?
26:55 Mattress Running the Numbers: Capital One Premier Collection promotion
https://frequentmiler.com/amazing-deal-get-200-off-capital-one-premier-collection-potentially-free-hotel-stay/https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-find-hidden-capital-one-premier-collection-hotels/
31:15 Award Talk: Hyatt / Mr & Mrs Smith promo
42:17 Main Event
42:30 How do you earn American Airlines miles?
44:51 Using miles for American Airlines flights
44:52 Close-in bookings
48:28 Flying from non-AA hubs
50:14 "Roll the dice" flights
52:16 American Airlines partner awards
53:07 North America to Africa (Great for Qatar Qsuites)
55:55 Europe to the Middle East (Great for Etihad apartments)
58:19 Middle East / India to Asia (Great for Etihad first or Qatar Qsuites)
1:00:08 Africa to Africa (get a lot of Qatar biz for a low price)
1:02:53 Asia to South Pacific
1:05:11 American Airlines partners
1:14:17 Question of the Week: Have I opened too many new accounts? Should I slow down?
Music credit: Annie Yoder
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | 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. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's main event, how to get awesome value from American Airlines Miles. |
| 0:31.6 | We'll tell you how to do it in our main event. |
| 0:34.6 | You know, I went years without redeeming American Airlines miles at all, basically. |
| 0:39.3 | And then we got a whole bunch of them. |
| 0:41.4 | And I was like, oh, wow, let's do this trip and that trip and the other trip. |
| 0:44.4 | Because there are just some really cool redemption possibilities. |
| 0:48.6 | So if you've only been looking at one or two things with your American Airlines miles, |
| 0:52.8 | by the end of today's show, I think you'll have like 15 different things that you'll be thinking about the next time you go to look to use your miles. But before we get to all that, be sure to like this video. If you enjoy our content, give it a thumbs up. Leave us a comment. Let us know what you think about it. So we always appreciate that kind of stuff. Don't forget to subscribe and enable notifications wherever you're watching or listening to the show. We appreciate that very much. Also, keep in mind, we always put the timestamps in the description. So whether you're watching this on YouTube or listening to it in a podcast platform, you can always find the timestamps and the show notes. So you can jump right to the sections that matter the the most to you or if you're going back to review an episode, you can find the |
| 1:31.1 | parts of it that you want to listen to again. On that note, let's get into today's giant mailbag. |
| 1:36.9 | Drag out the giant mailbag. I'm dragging it out right now. All right. Today's giant mail |
| 1:41.6 | comes from Josh in response to last week's show. |
| 1:45.0 | The last week's show was, when can you get the same card and welcome bonus again? |
| 1:50.0 | And in that show, one of the things we said was that usually with most card issuers, if you get approved, |
| 1:58.0 | like they all have different rules about whether you can get a card again |
| 2:02.2 | and get the welcome bonus again. But we said if you get approved, you're probably going to be |
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