JetBlue Polishes its Premium Premier Mastercard | Coffee Break Ep101 | 4-14-26
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
JetBlue has announced some big changes to its Premier Mastercard, which was previously a real bummer of a card. So when these changes come in "the spring", will they make the card better, and worth that $499 annual fee?
JetBlue Polishes its Premium Premier Mastercard
(01:00) - New benefits coming to this card
Read more about the card changes here: https://frequentmiler.com/the-jetblue-premier-card-might-finally-become-worth-applying-for/
(06:00) - Nick & Greg talk through a few questions like: Is this a good card or does it just seem like it compared to the old stinker? Is the new version of the card worth $499 per year? Is this worth $400 more than the Plus or Business card?
(06:30) - What's good about this...
(08:46) - What's bad about this...
(09:59) - Is this overall a good card (and if so, for whom?)
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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. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to Freakimilers Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:16.6 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less or your money back. |
| 0:23.1 | Today's coffee break, JetBlue polishes its premium Premier MasterCard. |
| 0:29.4 | JetBlue has announced some big changes to their Premier MasterCard. |
| 0:34.3 | That's the $499 card in their repertoire of airline cards and it was previously |
| 0:42.3 | objectively a stinker of a card. |
| 0:46.3 | For 499 it had very little in the way of meaningful benefits, but that's changing |
| 0:52.3 | this spring. We're not sure what when exactly this spring happens, |
| 0:57.7 | but sometime this spring, they say a bunch of changes are coming. So we're going to talk about |
| 1:02.9 | those changes, and then we're going to give our review of the new card. Do we think it's worth |
| 1:09.8 | that annual fee? Yeah. Okay. So let's talk about some of the new card, do we think it's worth that annual fee? |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.1 | Okay. |
| 1:16.3 | So let's talk about some of the new benefits coming to the card because it was awfully light on benefits before. |
| 1:17.9 | Now there's quite a few different benefits. |
| 1:20.3 | First of all, we'll be a companion pass statement credit. |
| 1:22.9 | So if you spend $15,000 on the card, you'll get a companion rebate worth up to $500. |
| 1:28.6 | So you book a ticket for you and a companion, and the companion fare will get refunded, |
| 1:34.2 | up to $500 in base fare before taxes. |
| 1:37.5 | You get another one of those, potentially, at $75,000 in spend. |
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