Magical point conversions | Ep143 | 3-26-22
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that your Ultimate Rewards points can still transfer to Amtrak? Or that Citi ThankYou points can become British Airways Avios? This week we talk about ways to wave your magic wand and convert your points creatively.
1:18 Giant Mailbag: Award availability disclaimers
5:33 Confession Time!
9:36 What crazy thing...did British Airways do this week?
12:22 Mattress running the numbers: Are the IHG cards worth big spend?
https://frequentmiler.com/ihg-premier-cards-worth-big-spend/
33:54 Main Event: Magical Point Conversions
First up: JetBlue to Amtrak
https://frequentmiler.com/opportunity-missed-dont-forget-about-that-jetblue-to-amtrak-conversion/
38:04 The Avios Collection
42:30 Wyndham to Caesars Rewards or vice versa
https://frequentmiler.com/how-i-saved-my-wyndham-points-from-expiry/
44:33 Hyatt-->LATAM / Aeromexico
49:40 Chase, Citi, Capital One, or Bilt to Hilton
https://frequentmiler.com/transfer-partner-master-list/
56:51 Question of the Week: What hotel card combo do you recommend for free nights?
https://frequentmiler.com/manufacturing-free-nights-hyatt-hilton-marriott/
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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, magical point conversions. |
| 0:30.6 | This past week, Nick has talked about magically converting his jet blue points to Amtrak. He forgot all about that and could |
| 0:40.2 | have done it for a trip to New York City on Amtrak. And there's reasons why that could be a good |
| 0:46.9 | thing or reasons why you might not want to do it. But regardless, it's kind of magical to turn one |
| 0:52.3 | type of points into a whole different type of points and still get good value out of it. |
| 0:57.5 | So you see access to a whole new bucket of points, right? |
| 1:00.2 | You're like, oh wow, I didn't know that I had Amtrak points, but I do. |
| 1:03.7 | They're just in my JetBlue account. |
| 1:05.7 | That's right. |
| 1:06.7 | That's right. |
| 1:07.7 | And a lot of people are sitting on JetBlue points because, you know, for various reasons, they earn them. |
| 1:13.1 | And maybe you're not using them. |
| 1:15.2 | And maybe you can use them for Amtrak. |
| 1:17.2 | So that's a really cool thing. |
| 1:18.9 | But as I said, lots of other cool little backdoor ways of getting to different types of points that we're going to be talking all about. First, |
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