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Welcome to coffee break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points.

And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less for your money back.

In today's coffee break, we're going to talk about how points and miles change in value.

And we're going to look specifically at which airline programs, which hotel programs, which transferable points have recently gone up in value or down in value.

And sometimes it's not their own fault, but often it is.

Anyway, the point is these things change all the time,

and we're gonna just have a glimpse into right now

which programs we think are going up or down.

Yeah, so let's kick it off with

airline programs. So the first airline program, I'll start with, is the airline program we see

on the way up, and that for sure is Alaska mileage plan, because Alaska miles have just

become more and more valuable, especially when you consider a lot of their award chart sort of sweet spots

as compared to other competitors. Now that's going to depend a little bit on where you live.

And sure, the award chart changed some from the past, but the ability to get a free stop over on

one-way awards, especially once they finally integrate, fully integrate mixed partner awards,

is going to be huge.

And I've been getting great value out of my Alaska miles lately.

55K business class from Frankfurt to New York on Condor I booked recently,

recently booked Latom for 35K business class from Cancun to Santiago.

And then, of course, you've got all the flights within the United States.

If you're able to fly on, often, you can book American Airlines flights for as few as

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