How to Save Miles by Flying More | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep300 | 4-4-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
There are some creative ways to use airline miles to fly further with less miles. In other words, you can see more and spend less. We'll talk about these fun tricks in today's episode.
(01:00) - The validity of Etihad Guest Miles will be extended by 18 months based on qualifying member flight activity. We thought this means you have to credit paid flights to Etihad to extend your miles...but is that true?
(04:20) - How do you handle domestic positioning flights?
See our "Tips for booking positioning flights" episode 253 here.
(09:30) - Amex targeted referral +5 points on travel & transit
(11:21) - Learn more about Amex multi-referrals here.
(11:27) - Amex Membership Rewards: You don’t need a credit card to transfer to some partners Read more about this here.
(15:10) - Chase: 80% transfer bonus to IHG through 4/30
(18:26) - Transfer bonuses
(21:14) - Updates to popular award tools
(22:56) - National Car Rental’s One Two Free Promo Returns
(27:43) - Virgin Atlantic jacks up Delta One surcharges departing Europe to more than $1,000 one-way
Read more about dumping fees when booking Delta One here.
(31:05) - Cautions about skiplagging / hidden city ticketing, etc...
(37:34) - Married Segment Logic
(42:23) - Start to End Distance Based/ Zone Based Award Pricing
(47:25) - Mixed cabin award pricing
(51:53) - Multi-partner awards
(52:57) - Read Nick's post about Air Canada's United devaluation relief with multi-partner awards here.
(58:59) - Creative routing
(1:04:40) - Should people wait to get the other Hawaiian Airlines credit card (if they have one of the personal Hawaaiin credit cards already)? (There are two different consumer Hawaiian Airlines cards - one with Bank of Hawaii and one by Barclays (though confusingly both are issued by Barclays)).
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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 voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.1 | Today's main event, how to save miles by flying more. Frequent mile are on the air starts now. |
| 0:19.9 | There are a number of creative ways you can use your airline miles to actually fly further |
| 0:25.8 | than you would have otherwise and for fewer miles. |
| 0:29.5 | We're going to get into a bunch of different options for doing that in today's main event. |
| 0:34.7 | And if that sounds a little bit like the spend more to save more, like, |
| 0:38.4 | no, believe it or not, this is spend less to pay more. I don't know. That's not it either. It sounds |
| 0:44.5 | confusing, but you're going to save miles by flying more, exactly. So we'll talk more about that |
| 0:49.2 | today. Don't forget, though, that wherever you're watching or listening, you should give this |
| 0:52.7 | a thumbs up, like it, leave us a review. Let us know what you thought. Let us know your ideas |
| 0:57.4 | an opinion still |
| 0:58.3 | we are forget, though, that wherever you're watching or listening, you should give this a thumbs up, like it, leave us a review, let us know what you thought, let us know your ideas and opinions, too. We always love hearing from you. Sometimes we pull some content and show ideas out of that, too, so we appreciate all of that. And don't forget the timestamps are in the show notes. So if you're new to this, expand the show description so that you can find all the timestamps and jump ahead to a segment or come back to it later. Now let's drag out this week's giant mailback. |
| 1:14.7 | Today's giant mail |
| 1:15.3 | comes from Eric. But first, a little bit of background. So, Eddie Had, when they rolled out a new |
| 1:23.5 | terrible cancellation policy for award tickets, buried in that news was a new terrible policy for |
| 1:32.0 | the expiration of your miles. And what they posted was this. They wrote, the validity of Eddihad |
| 1:41.8 | guest miles will be extended by 18 months based on qualifying member flight activity. |
| 1:47.8 | So what we interpreted that to mean, we meaning the frequent mile our team, is that your miles would expire in 18 months unless you credit paid flights to Eddiedie had so that you earn eddie had miles from |
| 2:03.9 | actual flight activity that's how we interpreted it but maybe we were wrong and uh this is where |
| 2:09.6 | eric's email comes in eric wrote one data point when i made an eddie had booking for american |
| 2:16.4 | airlines so that means he booked an American |
| 2:18.8 | Airlines flight using Eddie Had Miles. It reset the 18 month. Interesting that an award redemption |
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