Mastering Avios | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep241 | 2-10-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Avios is the rewards currency for British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Vueling, Qatar, and soon Finnair. This means it's worth some attention. On this week's episode, we discuss how you can earn, use, and maximize this reward currency.
Here are some of the topics you'll find in the episode...
(01:41) Player Two chimes in (Mailbag)
(03:37) Chase British Airways Visa Signature® Card (Card Talk)
Learn more about this card: https://frequentmiler.com/ba/
(09:30) Turkish award search shows random non-partner flights (Crazy Thing)
(13:30) Best Western: Stay Twice & Earn Free Night Voucher (Mattress Running the Numbers)
Read more about this: https://frequentmiler.com/best-western-stay-twice-earn-free-night-voucher/
(17:37) Turkish devalues (Award Talk)
Read more about this: https://frequentmiler.com/turkish-might-be-demolishing-its-award-chart/
(22:03) SLH ditches Hyatt for Hilton (Award Talk)
Read more about this: https://frequentmiler.com/small-luxury-hotels-slh-ditches-hyatt-for-hilton/
(26:10) Bilt announces milestone rewards (Award Talk)
Read more about this: https://frequentmiler.com/bilt-introduces-unrewarding-milestone-rewards/
(31:50) Referral points don’t count towards Bilt status, h/t Chris from All the Hacks (Award Talk)
(32:58) Mastering Avios, the rewards currency for BA, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Vueling, Qatar, and (soon) Finnair (Main Event)
Read all about Avios here: https://frequentmiler.com/complete-guide-to-avios-british-airways-iberia-and-aer-lingus/
(33:22) Earning Avios (34:30) Moving Avios between programs
Read more about this: https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-transfer-avios-between-aer-lingus-ba-and-iberia/
(40:52) BA Household Accounts
(42:40) Using Avios
Read more about using Avios with Jet Blue: https://frequentmiler.com/jetblue-mint-to-the-caribbean-for-26000-avios-where-and-how-to-find-it/
(01:03:37) How do you plan acitivites? (Question of the Week)
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | 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. |
| 0:13.6 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.9 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.1 | The main event. |
| 0:22.2 | Frequent Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.7 | Today's main event, mastering Avios. |
| 0:30.1 | Avios is or are the rewards program for British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, and Soon Finn Air. |
| 0:38.1 | So a whole bunch of programs that you may know nothing about. |
| 0:41.7 | But if you're into points and miles, these are things you ought to know about. |
| 0:45.9 | This is sort of a workhorse program that is good in a lot of ways, lots of ways of earning the points and using the points. |
| 0:52.2 | And so we're going to talk all about them and give you the basics you need to know to make most out of your aviose. And if you happen to know nothing about them right now, you won't be able to say that tomorrow because you'll have listened to this show. And so you'll know lots of stuff about them. And if you need to go back and find a key point that you wanted to revisit or you want to skip ahead to something else, don't forget the show notes are always in the description of the show. |
| 1:17.0 | And we have the timestamps for the various places where you can skip around and jump ahead or jump back if you need to. |
| 1:23.6 | Wherever you're watching or listening to this show, don't forget to give it a like give us some |
| 1:28.0 | feedback a thumbs up all of that type of stuff helps and subscribe and enable enable notifications |
| 1:33.4 | so that you get notified as soon as we post a new episode because you may have noticed there was a |
| 1:38.1 | bonus episode this week and that may not be the only bonus coming your way sometime soon so you'll |
| 1:43.4 | want to make sure that you're subscribed and have your notifications enabled so you don't miss anything. |
| 1:48.1 | Yeah, out of the way. |
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