Is hotel elite status obsolete? | Ask Us Anything Ep77 | 7-2-25
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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This Ask Us Anything, Live first aired on July 2nd, 2025
(00:51) - From Ryan - Nick you probably know Turkish airline rewards redemptions better than anyone else in the world. Would you recommend to your loyal readers (like me!) to do the Turkish 1MM Challenge?
(04:17) - If you find yourself points and miles bankrupt, at 5/24, and in Amex pop-up jail what can one do to get enough points to take a nice trip?
(06:08) - What’s the FM team’s thoughts on buying groups to hit massive spending limits for sign up bonuses?
(09:05) - I have the Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card and Capital One Spark Miles Select Business Credit Card. I'm canceling my Venture X. Do I have to move points to the Spark Miles Select before canceling to retain the points?
(09:57) - OK, still confused about the Chase Sapphire Reserve if I got the Chase Sapphire Preferred with 100K 2 months ago do I still qualify for the "new" bonus if I haven’t hit the bonus yet?
(13:22) - Are you surprised that the multipliers on the refreshed Chase Sapphire Reserve card didn't change more substantially? Particularly the dining staying the same compared to 4x on American Express® Gold Card and 5x on Citi Prestige.
(14:42) - For the JetBlue 25 for 25, you can't do multi city points bookings on one PNR. Will sequential one ways be protected if you follow the multi-city ticket between one-ways?
(17:54) -With all the funny business that Hertz is starting to pull on phantom damage being charged by AI, are you/would you still rent from them?
(23:25) - Have we heard any updates or ETA on the new Alaska Premium card?
(24:12) - Is booking Mr & Mrs Smith via Hyatt more expensive than booking direct? A property hinted they prefer guests to book direct than 3rd parties, including Hyatt. Suggesting that Hyatt is a 3rd party.
(26:17) - Would love to know from the team, what's the best first class product you each have ever flown?
(33:06) - With the changes to Southwest, how does using a flight credit to pay the taxes and fees on a points booking affect its flexibility?
(34:52) - With half of the year gone by, what’s on track so far to win the bonvoyed award of the year?
(38:24) - You all say Chase Ultimate rewards points are great for Hyatts. What are each of your top 3 Hyatt Properties in Asia and Europe
(42:13) - Booked a flight from Lisbon to Atlanta on Delta. KLM was the carrier even though it was ticketed on Delta. I can't get them to give me my SkyMiles. Any ideal how to get these posted?
(44:43) - Has Nick set up a professional mic on arm inside a car??
(46:20) - Does The Edit by Chase Travel℠ and Amex FHR make hotel elite status obsolete?
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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 |
| 0:07.0 | voyescape.com. Welcome to Ask Us Anything, where the frequent miler team answers your questions live. |
| 0:19.6 | Frequent Milers Ask Us Anything starts now. All right. Welcome, everyone. So don't forget, wherever you're watching or listening to this, don't forget to like the video, give us a thumbs up, leave us a review or your feedback. We always love to hear from you. And speaking of hearing from you, you can join our Frequent Miler Insiders Facebook group to ask and answer |
| 0:37.9 | questions anytime you want or go to frequentmiler.com slash subscribe to join our email list and then |
| 0:44.1 | again, follow us on all the various social media. So you never miss out on a post in your email |
| 0:49.2 | inbox on our website when we go live, all that fun stuff. All right, tonight we've got a couple of questions |
| 0:55.6 | already queued up. So I think Stephen is going to kick us off with a couple of questions to |
| 1:00.2 | start out before our regular moderator, Kerry, jumps in after him. So go ahead, Stephen. Take it over. |
| 1:05.2 | So this first one's from Ryan who commented on our Ask Us Anything post on the blog. So he said, Nick, you probably know |
| 1:12.6 | Turkish airline rewards redemptions better than anyone else in the world. Would you recommend |
| 1:17.3 | to your loyal readers, like me, to do the Turkish Airlines 1 million mile challenge? I get a sense |
| 1:23.6 | from your post that finding redemptions can be a bit of a needle in a haste. He mostly flies from A, flies to Asia and South America with some domestic flights sprinkled |
| 1:32.6 | in. |
| 1:33.6 | He'd hate to have the million miles and struggle to use them. |
| 1:36.3 | He doesn't mind grinding a bit to find flights, but his quick peek at Seats.A.A. |
| 1:41.3 | which shows almost no availability to Asia from North America at a |
| 1:44.4 | saver level. He'd hate to burn his million miles on just three overpriced business class |
| 1:50.7 | seats because there's nothing to get. So should he do it? Okay. So if you have to ask this |
| 1:57.4 | question, the answer is probably no. And I'm going to say that as thank you for the |
| 2:03.3 | compliment saying that I know more about booking Turkish than many other people. Believe it or not, |
| 2:08.4 | that's still not very much because Turkish is notoriously difficult to work with. And so, you know, |
| 2:14.3 | if you find the award you want available on their website, great. |
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