Marriott's rumored business cards | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep319 | 8-15-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast episode, we'll talk about whether or not Hertz will put Nick in jail, how Greg's British Airways flight was saved by Delta, and Marriott's "Brilliant" potential new business card line-up.
Giant Mailbag
(03:02) - Catch Greg on these podcasts: Chris Hutchins / All the Hacks: Top Airline & Hotel Transfer Partners to Maximize Your Points
(03:42) - Point me to first class (Devon): What Credit Card Points Are Really Worth in 2025
(04:18) - Many people wrote in with examples of where an International Driver's Permit is required (Japan, Italy, etc)
See episode 318 about The Rental Car Game here
Card News
(07:28) - Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card offer (100K + promo credit good for up to $500 towards a single Chase Travel℠ booking after $5K spend in 3 months) ending soon.
Crazy Thing DOUBLE HEADER
(09:36) - Alaska: Atmos Rewards
(15:14) - A reader has a strange Lifemiles story to report...
Nick's JetBlue 25for25 Update
(18:52) - Marriott Day Use Rate: Got lounge access, earned elite night credit (and points)
(20:30) - Edgar Hotel Martha's Vineyard: Undeniably Choice in some ways, but great room & value.
(23:37) - Lounge access reminders worth a mention: Ritz card gets unlimited visits & guests at Sapphire Lounges. Use the Ritz card, not Priority Pass, for access. Amex Platinum cardholders get Escape Lounge with 2 guests. We've used Escape lounges at SJU, PVD, FLL, and PBI on this trip. Of those, only PVD is on Priority Pass (so remember to check for these!).
(26:53) - Couldn't check in online for Etihad-booked flight ACK-LGA (expected -- no birthdays for P1 & P2). Got it fixed at the BOS Mosaic check-in area. Ended up being a quick fix. Glad they could do it at BOS because time was tight at ACK.
(30:27) - Nick's Hertz rental (even if you only have the first part of the story -- it's entertaining!)
Awards, Points, and More
(36:14) - Air Canada Aeroplan program updates (mileage and status earning changes)
(44:51) - Greg's positioning flight to Boston for the British Airways first class flight
(49:01) - Greg flies AA Flagship Preferred Suites LHR to ORD
(51:21) - If Uber to the airport seems expensive, try switching your airline
(54:43) - New Reasonable Redemption Values (RRVs)
Main Event: Marriott's rumored business cards
(1:03:51) - The following is based on surveys, not announced changes...
(1:05:18) - Amex Bonvoy Business card
(1:13:28) - Amex Marriott Bevy Business
(1:20:22) - The Rumored Amex Bonvoy Brilliant Business
Question of the Week
(1:28:22) - Which hotel-branded credit card is the best?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.7 | On today's show, we discuss whether Hertz will put Nick in jail. |
| 0:15.4 | I hope not. We talk about how my British Airways flight was saved by Delta, and we discuss Marriott's brilliant, potential new business card lineup. |
| 0:29.0 | Frequent Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:33.3 | Today's main event, Marriott's rumored business cards. |
| 0:37.1 | All right, going way back to when Marriott's rumored business cards. |
| 0:49.5 | All right, going way back to when Marriott bought up Starwood Preferred Hotels, Amex, and Chase had to split up the Marriott credit card business in the United States. |
| 0:58.8 | And Marriott and Chase lost their ability to have new business Marriac cards. |
| 1:05.1 | And Amex kept their original business card and continued to market that. |
| 1:11.4 | And that was, I think before the merger, it was like $95 and afterwards it went up to like $125. But they haven't done anything with the business credit card market for Marriott since |
| 1:18.0 | then. But it looks like that's changing. And we're going to talk about the rumors in today's |
| 1:23.1 | main event. And remember, if you want to jump ahead to that or you want to come back and revisit |
| 1:27.0 | something later on, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the description box to see the timestamps and links to the blog to find more information about all the things that we're talking about. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like the video or give us a thumbs up, a star, a review. If you're listening in podcasts, form, we appreciate all of that feedback from you. |
| 1:46.0 | So thank you very much for that. |
| 1:47.4 | Let's drag out this week's Giant Mailback. |
| 1:49.5 | All right. |
| 1:49.9 | Giant Mail today is a few miscellaneous things actually from me or from us, |
| 1:55.7 | talking about what readers have written in as well. |
| 1:59.5 | First up, not in our notes at all. |
| 2:02.0 | I just want to take a moment to acknowledge how awesome this is that I get to hang out |
| 2:09.9 | with Nick a couple times a week and just chat about my favorite topic of miles and points. |
| 2:15.2 | And we just have a great time. |
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