Loyalty Program Changing Fortunes | Ep198 | 4-15-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Frequent Miler often focuses on determine value in the most objective ways possible, but this week Nick and Greg take a very subjective look at each of the major programs, sharing our thoughts about whether each is trending up or trending down.
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00:00 Intro
01:05 Giant Mailbag
06:50 Card Talk: Chase Sapphire Preferred
https://frequentmiler.com/chase-sapphire-preferred-complete-guide/
19:17 What crazy thing....double header 19:32 What crazy thing....did Hyatt do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/hyatt-is-being-shady-with-terms-of-latest-promotion/
22:30 Aeroplan
27:24 Award Talk: British Airways Business Class with AA miles
29:40 Free MSC Cruise
https://frequentmiler.com/our-experience-booking-a-free-msc-cruise/
34:35 Seats.Aero adds Emirates
36:08 Main Event: Loyalty program changing fortunes
36:31 American Airlines
40:26 Delta
41:46 Southwest
43:13 United
46:37 Virgin Atlantic
48:27 Alaska
50:50 IHG
54:57 Hyatt
56:06 Marriott
59:20 Hilton
1:00:25 Wyndham
1:02:34 Choice
1:02:58 Radisson Americas
1:04:46 Question of the Week: What's your strategy regarding speculative bookings?
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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 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's main event, loyalty program, changing fortunes. |
| 0:30.6 | So I've been loving my American Airlines miles lately more than ever before. And Nick has been like loving the IHG program more than |
| 0:41.2 | than before. And so that combination got us thinking about like, where have our opinions about |
| 0:46.7 | these loyalty programs changed in recent days and months due to basically changes in the programs, changes in award prices, changes in all kinds of things like travel, you know, the inflation, how travel costs so much more. |
| 1:05.1 | Award trends. Yeah. Where are award seats more available? All those things play into loyalty program changing fortunes. |
| 1:13.8 | So that's today's main event. First, of course, we have the giant mailbag. Today's giant mail |
| 1:19.0 | comes from Melissa, who says, she hit, she says, I hit my three-year anniversary of discovering |
| 1:25.8 | miles and your site in roughly the same day. |
| 1:30.4 | My only interest started as wanting to find a discounted way to fly to Japan. |
| 1:36.0 | Three years later and over four million miles earned. |
| 1:40.2 | I can't believe what I've accomplished thanks to your site and podcasts. |
| 1:45.1 | While I will be redeeming the coveted Japan trip this May, using Virgin to fly A&A and Hilton certificates, my biggest thrill has been domestic travel. |
| 1:56.7 | I love the little things like status matching with car rental, Ventana Big Sur, airport lounges, |
| 2:03.7 | Vakasa, Hilton Fifth Night Free. |
| 2:07.1 | The little things are what excite me the most. |
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