How we use our Amex Platinum coupon book credits | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep294 | 2-21-25

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, we talk about our Capital One mistake, how Uber has tried to "Bonvoy" us, and the many ways we use our Platinum credit card credits.

(01:27) - OOPS: Capital One doesn't transfer to JetBlue like we implied

(02:33) - BUT...then this week Capital One announced they ARE adding JetBlue as a transfer partner, (but at horrible rates)

(05:24) - Hotel transfer bonuses, yay or nay?

(10:29) - Uber adding 1.5% charge to rides abroad – here’s how to avoid overpaying

Transcript

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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	On this week's show, we talk about how we made a big Capital One to JetBlue transfer bonus mistake, and Capital One tried to come back and fix it, but they didn't do it very well.
0:22.4	We also talked about how Uber has tried to bonvoy us all, and finally we talk about the many ways.
0:28.6	Nick and I use our platinum credits to get money back from our platinum cards.
0:33.5	Frequent Milo on the air starts now.
0:38.1	Today's main event, how we use are MX Platinum coupon book credits.
0:44.0	MX Platinum cards are expensive.
0:46.2	They cost $6.95 a year, but they come loaded with perks that can make them well worth the annual
0:52.1	fee, except a lot of them are kind of irritating
0:55.9	perks in that they are more like coupons. They're like spend at this specific type of thing,
1:02.0	and then you'll get back some money worse, like some of them are monthly. So you could get back
1:06.3	like $10 or $20 per month by doing these things. We're going to talk about how Nick and I use these credits to make the platinum card worth keeping. We'll train you to jump through those hoops today, and it won't be too painful. Don't worry. But first, don't forget, if you want to jump ahead to something or come back to it later on, you'll always find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the show description wherever you're looking at this. Also, if you want more information about the stuff that we're
1:29.9	talking about, don't forget to go to the show notes for links to our site for all the various
1:35.0	stuff that we discuss throughout the show. Okay, it's time. Let's drag out this week's giant mailbag.
1:40.9	All right. This week's giant mail comes from our last regular show, our weekly show, we last
1:48.3	published a couple weeks ago. In it, we made a big mistake. We were talking about different
1:55.3	ways to use Capital One Miles. And one of the things we said was you could transfer Capital One miles to JetBlue
2:03.8	and here's how you could use it that way.
2:06.8	Well, Katie Roden saying, big fan here.
2:10.9	I just want to point out that in your recent segment on Capital One Miles you talked about
2:14.5	transferring miles to JetBlue.
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