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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

Nerdy Travel Diaries: Use Points to Fly in Luxury

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2665 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

You can fly abroad in business class on points alone — if you know how to play the points game. To wrap up our Nerdy Travel Diaries series, Liz talks with travel Nerd Elina Geller about her strategy for booking international business class flights.  To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Flying business class is pretty sweet and also pretty expensive if you have to pay cash.

0:36.5

Fortunately, there are ways to use travel rewards

0:38.4

to score the live flat beds of your traveling dreams. Welcome to the NerdWallet Smart Money

0:43.8

podcast where we usually answer your personal finance questions and help you feel a little

0:47.8

smarter about what you do with your money. I'm Liz Weston. This episode, we're continuing our

0:53.0

Travel Diary series where we'll hear stories

0:55.7

from our travel nerds about the trips they've taken and the money they've saved along the way.

1:00.2

This episode, we're talking with Nerd Wallet Travel writer Alina Geller. She's going to share

1:05.0

the details of a recent trip to New York and talk about how you can use points and miles to

1:09.7

score business class flights once you're

1:12.1

ready to get back out there. Welcome to the podcast, Alina. Thanks for having me. In case our

1:18.0

listeners haven't heard before, Alina is known as the digital nomad and she basically travels for a

1:23.0

living. She uses points and miles almost exclusively and she typically books business class for those longer flights.

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