Hyatt: End of year elite planning | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep329 | 10-24-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
As it nears the end of the year, it's time to assess Hyatt elite progress. In today's Frequent Miler on the air podcast episode, we'll focus on how to bridge the gap to the next level of Hyatt status. But we'll also talk about United & JetBlue tying their knot tighter, and how Wyndham's crappy coupon book doesn't add up.
Giant Mailbag
(01:21) - "We just wanted to say how much we have enjoyed the 100K Vacay challenge..."
Card News
(04:42) - Hawaiian card's $100 annual companion discounts & 50% companion discounts now redeemable on Alaska flights. Learn more about this here.
(07:53) - Citi launches new $350 American Airlines AAdvantage Globe credit card, which you can read more about here.
(09:13) - United Debit Card Coming (to join SouthWest & Wyndham debit cards)
(13:40) - American Express Business Gold® adds $150 Squarespace Credit
Bonvoyed
(15:27) - Wyndham Rewards Insider (More about it here)
Crazy Thing
(17:22) - Wyndham's Bad Math
Awards, Points, and More
(21:21) - United & JetBlue: Now reciprocal earn & burn is live
(34:18) - JetBlue Mosaic changes (Learn more about them here)
(40:35) - Bilt Rewards updates
(44:34) - Learn more about Bilt's doing away with Milestone Rewards, which you can read about here.
(47:45) - Chase offering 25% transfer bonus to Southwest through Nov 6
Main Event: Hyatt: End of year elite planning
(50:23) - Why we care
(53:32) - Elite levels and Milestones
(1:09:00) - Shortcuts
(1:13:50) - Learn more about World of Hyatt adding double elite nights to welcome offer here: https://frequentmiler.com/world-of-hyatt-credit-card-temporarily-adds-extra-elite-credit-to-offer/
(1:16:33) - Stack with other promos. Ex: Earn 3x Hyatt points on 2+ night stays for 90 days after registration (targeted) (Learn more about this here: https://frequentmiler.com/earn-3x-hyatt-points-on-2-night-stays-targeted/)
(1:20:29) - Nick's plans
(1:24:09) - Greg's plans
Question of the Week
(1:34:44) - How do you evaluate whether positioning is worth it?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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| 0:41.9 | Now back to the show. |
| 0:44.6 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:54.0 | On today's show, we'll talk about United and JetBlue, tying the knot a little bit tighter. |
| 0:58.6 | We'll talk about how Wyndham's crappy coupon book doesn't add up, and we'll discuss how to bridge |
| 1:03.7 | the gap to the next level of Hyatt status. |
| 1:06.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 1:10.5 | Today's main event, Hyatt, end of year elite planning. |
| 1:15.3 | As it's getting towards the end of the year, we're starting to look at our elite progress |
| 1:21.1 | so far. How many nights have we earned at Hyatt and are we going to reach the elite goals we |
| 1:26.5 | have with them? Hyatt, we we going to reach the elite goals we have with them? |
| 1:28.3 | Hyatt, we've long described as our favorite loyalty program. |
| 1:33.3 | And so we're going to talk about what you can do as it gets near the end of the year to reach your goals as well. |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah, and I think that this is a program that matters a lot to us and probably to many readers. So we'll discuss which things might be worth going for because even if you're not going to make it all the way to the top tier, there are still some things you might want to consider in terms of getting yourself towards a level with Hyatt. We'll talk more about that. But remember, if you want to jump ahead to it or you want to come back to something later on, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes, just expand the description box. And wherever you're watching or listening to this, please give it a like, a thumbs up, a star, leave us a review, leave your comments and your thoughts. We love to hear from you. So thank you for that. Let's drag out this week's giant mail bag. All right, pulling out the giant mail bag. |
| 2:20.3 | Today's giant mail comes from Annette and Leo. |
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