How to get great value from your Platinum card | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep262 | 7-5-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
The Amex Platinum card has had great welcome bonuses for a while now, but it's a very expensive card. Are there reasons to keep the card once the annual fee comes due? That's what we'll discuss in today's Frequent Miler on the Air episode.
(01:36) - Online chat for immediate Avios refunds? (Mailbag)
(05:26) - Wells Fargo Attune Card (Card Talk)
Read more about the Attune card here.
(17:49) - Hyatt promo: Earn 1k bonus points + double elite nights at 15 Florida properties (Mattress Running the Numbers)
(23:46) - Virgin kills Delta One deal (Award Talk)
(28:39) - Interesting notes about Spirit awards (Award Talk)
Read more about Nick's Spirit discoveries here.
Read more about the Amex Platinum card here.
(34:25) - Become elite
(37:01) - Enhance your travel experiences
(40:57) - Earn $200 back on prepaid hotel bookings each year
Read more about FHR credits here: https://frequentmiler.com/maxfhr-an-awesome-new-way-to-help-use-your-200-fine-hotels-resorts-credits/
(44:28) - Earn $200 in Airline Fee Credits each calendar year
(46:08) - Use $200 in Uber credits each calendar year
(48:53) - Get $20 per month back in rebates on select digital entertainment services
(51:27) - Earn up to $100 per year in rebates at Saks Fifth Avenue
(55:18) - Get Walmart+ for Free
(56:53) - Earn 5x for airfare and prepaid hotels
(57:21) - Refer friends
(1:05:37) - Hyatt dummy-booking offer... why is no one talking about this offer?
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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. |
| 0:22.2 | Frequent Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.8 | Today's main event, how to get great value from your MX Platinum card. |
| 0:32.5 | As you may know, the MX Platinum card has had great welcome bonuses for quite a few years now. |
| 0:40.3 | And so it's always very tempting to apply, get that initial welcome bonus, but it's a very expensive card. |
| 0:50.3 | And so you may be tempted to ditch it once the next annual fee comes due. And that's not a |
| 1:00.6 | bad idea, but we're going to talk through how you might want to, why you might want to actually |
| 1:04.6 | keep it long term because there's a lot of good value opportunities through the card. |
| 1:10.2 | And even if you don't keep it, you want to make sure you squeeze every little bit of value |
| 1:13.1 | that you can out of it before you decide not to keep it. |
| 1:15.6 | So we'll talk about how to do all of that. |
| 1:18.8 | But don't forget, if you want to jump ahead to a specific segment or you want to return |
| 1:22.3 | to one later on, you'll always find the timestamps in the show notes. |
| 1:25.1 | So you might have to expand the description box to see those, but you can find those there. And wherever you're listening or watching, please like this video or podcast or give us a bunch of stars if you're rating us and leave a comment, leave us some feedback. We always love to hear from you. And we appreciate people who do all of those things. And we appreciate you even if you don't, but you still should. |
| 1:45.4 | So make sure you're doing that. |
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