It's Raining Mail! (From the Giant Mailbag) | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep308 | 5-30-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Today we learn that we're all wrong about Wyndham, we discuss some miscellaneous tips to save on flights, we hear from someone who's traveling the world one day at a time, and much more...
(03:07) - "I got the Chase Ink Cash last summer and immediately tested to see if YouTube TV would qualify for the 5x Ultimate Rewards points. ...it didn't."
(05:07) - Use Walmart scan and go and it may code as an online grocery expense for 3x on the Chase Sapphire Preferred card.
(08:05) - One listener opened a card to get a better boarding position. What crazy thing(s) have Greg and Nick done when opening credit cards?
(11:40) - Apparently you can move points online from one Wells Fargo Autograph card to another, (and in that way, could covert cash back to transferable points.)
(14:42) - Correction about the 10% discount for the Wyndham Earner card. "For properties where the award can be booked online, Members who are Earner cardmembers must be logged into their Wyndham Rewards account and have enough points in their account to obtain the award at the pre-discounted redemption level."
(18:08) - Because you can often buy Wyndham points for under 1cpp (and a couple times now under 0.8cpp), is booking Vacasa rentals with Wyndham points really a way to get good value out of transferrable points for lodging?
(21:43) - "I have never heard you discuss and unsung benefit of the Platinum card (consumer at least). With select airlines Amex travel sometimes has a cheaper fare in premium cabins."
(27:23) - "On the most recent episode you shared some tips related to the AA aviator companion pass and just wanted to share some additional experiences..."
(34:12) - Sometimes airlines charge less per ticket when buying for multiple people vs. just 1 ticket. This listener has a datapoint to add.
(36:56) - "Each time after I book via Alaska ( because you cannot change your Alaska number on these bookings, not that I have found ) I get on American Airlines chat and add my American Airlines number for my Executive Platinum status benefits.."
(41:10) - "I don't hear people talk much about PointsYeah and tracking existing award tickets. I book a lot of domestic travel for my family where travel dates are fixed and times are limited. I have started tracking all my bookings with PointsYeah (like I do the cash fares with google flights) and I can't tell you how many points back I have received."
(44:45) - "I was listening to a recent episode and heard Greg talk about booking an American Airlines business class flight with connections in economy and being able to select Main Cabin Extra for no additional cost when using Alaska miles. I decided to try this with an AA premium economy flight I already booked for my mother and I using Alaska miles to Paris with a connection in Economy..."
(46:46) - "Your Question of the Week last week about whether there’s a minimum trip length for you to make a trip “worth it” inspired me to share my story..."
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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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 | All right, on today's show, we're all wrong about Wyndham. |
| 0:14.8 | We'll learn about some miscellaneous tips to save on flights, |
| 0:18.9 | and we'll hear from someone traveling the world one day at a time. |
| 0:22.9 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:27.4 | Today's main event, the giant mailbag goes on vacation. By the time you're listening to this, |
| 0:33.3 | Nick and I just by chance are on vacation at the same time, and we're actually going to run into |
| 0:39.5 | each other at the same place, which is really surprising. But this is all recorded way in advance |
| 0:45.7 | of that. And on today's show, we're going to be going through lots of mail that's accumulated in |
| 0:52.8 | our giant mailbag over time from listeners who've |
| 0:56.3 | contributed all kinds of really interesting tips, great tricks, and we're going to unpack |
| 1:02.2 | all of that. It's basically a giant mailbag dump, but it's organized and we've picked |
| 1:08.7 | out the gems. We've picked out the gems for you. |
| 1:12.6 | We had a little trouble coming up with the perfect title for this week's show. And so we have a number of suggestions, including what I read at the outset, which is the giant mailbag goes on vacation. But you know what? |
| 1:28.3 | We're on vacation. |
| 1:32.9 | I'm going to let Kerry do the work of actually picking out the title of the show. |
| 1:37.7 | So let's read through the other titles and let her choose. |
| 1:41.9 | Today's main event, the giant mailbag unpacked. |
| 1:45.3 | Today's main event, you've got giant mail. Today's main event, you've got Giant Mail. |
| 1:49.4 | Today's main event, it's raining mail from the Giant Mailbag. |
| 1:53.7 | And today's main event, Giant Mailbag mania. You know, the reason we can't decide on the title this week is because our shirts are already on vacation. |
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