Must-have Chase cards | Ep215 | 8-12-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Big wins start with solid strategy. This week, we talk about which cards you must have before you start applying with reckless abandon as well as which cards you should probably be considering that are all likely limited by the 5/24 rule. If you play your cards right, you can easily end up with all the cards you want and need before you get locked out of more.
00:00 Intro
00:55 Giant Mailbag: A "wea culpa"
03:41 Card Talk: Chase Freedom Unlimited & Chase Freedom Flex cards
https://frequentmiler.com/cfu/
https://frequentmiler.com/cff/
11:47 What crazy thing . . . triple header?
12:08 What crazy thing . . . did Wyndham Rewards do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-prevent-wyndham-points-from-expiring/
15:32 What crazy thing . . . did Avianca LifeMiles do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/current-point-transfer-bonuses/
https://frequentmiler.com/having-issues-booking-with-lifemiles-try-using-the-firefox-browser/
17:38 What crazy thing . . . did Avianca LifeMiles do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/cancelling-a-lifemiles-award-ticket-maybe-less-painful-than-you-thought/
21:25 Award Talk
21:27 Air New Zealand Business Class wide open close-in
https://frequentmiler.com/air-new-zealand-business-class-awards-wide-open-close-in/
https://frequentmiler.com/avianca-lifemiles-awesome-mixed-cabin-award-pricing-first-class-for-less/
29:30 Contacting the hotel works out well
34:50 Main Event: Must-have Chase cards
36:37 Determining your 5/24 count
41:05 The Ultimate Rewards points cards
https://frequentmiler.com/chase-transfer-partners/
47:21 Fee-free UR cards
49:58 Which Ultimate Rewards cards are must-have keepers?
57:53 Which Chase airline cards are keepers?
1:03:30 Which Chase hotel cards are keepers?
1:10:44 Question of the Week: How do you audit and chase down your missing points?
Music credit: Annie Yoder
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | 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? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.9 | Today's main event must have chase cards. |
| 0:31.1 | Got to have them. |
| 0:31.8 | Must have. |
| 0:32.7 | Gotta have chase cards. |
| 0:34.3 | So here's the thing. |
| 0:35.2 | Last week, we talked about how you could earn millions, literally millions of points and miles from signing up for credit cards. And it was just basically, we were just talking about you sign up for the cards, you do the spender and the welcome bonuses. And then after a year, you cancel or downgrade the card. But in reality, there are quite a few cards that are actually worth keeping. |
| 0:57.8 | And we're going to start talking about chase cards. |
| 1:00.0 | And we'll tell you why we want to start talking about chase cards first. |
| 1:03.9 | But that's in the main event time. |
| 1:06.1 | So first we have giant mailback. |
| 1:08.7 | Today's giant mail comes from a mistake we made last week are we |
| 1:16.4 | a culpa oh we a culpa shoot in my notes I forgot to mention who wrote this this |
| 1:25.1 | comment but a comment in response to last week's show said hey guys slight error on the |
| 1:31.8 | jet blue cards only the business card has group a boarding while only the personal card can offset certain |
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