No longer traveling? How to cash out your transferable points | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep314 | 7-11-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
On this podcast episode, we find out that Turkish has killed their million mile promo, we talk about Ritz card rumors, and we shed some light on how Greg's uncle can redeem his transferable points for cash.
Giant Mailbag
(01:30) - One reader tries to convince Greg to do the JetBlue 25 for 25 promotion
Mega Airline Promo Updates
(04:53) - Turkish kills their 6 continent, 1 million mile promo
Find out more about that promo in our previous podcast episode here. (Or read our post about it here.)
(09:09) - Etihad tries to make their promo relevant
(13:20) - JetBlue promo(s)
Learn more about the JetBlue 25 for 25 promo here.
Learn about the Dunkin' promo here.
Card News
(21:25) - Citi® / AAdvantage® Platinum Select® World Elite Mastercard® (new offer)
(22:17) - UBS Visa Infinite: increased fees, increased benefits
Crazy Thing
(28:01) - Rumor: Is the Ritz card going to increase fee to $695 on Aug 1? Apparently not...
Bonvoyed
(36:31) - Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan seems to be having a spat of hacked accounts
Awards, Points, and More
(38:49) - Porter Airlines now bookable using Alaska Airlines miles. Prices start at 4.5k/6k
Main Event: No longer traveling? How to cash out your transferable points
(41:03) - The premise...
(43:23) - Brokers? Please no. Explicitly allowed options only will be discussed today
(46:00) - American Express Membership Rewards
(53:06) - Bilt Rewards
(55:53) - Capital One Miles
(57:18) - Citi ThankYou Rewards
(1:01:01) - Chase Ultimate Rewards
Question of the Week
(1:06:35) - How can you book a JetBlue flight with Etihad miles to an airport Etihad claims doesn't exist?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by 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 | Today's show, we'll talk about how Turkish killed their one million mile promotion early. |
| 0:15.9 | We'll get put them by the writs. |
| 0:18.6 | And we'll talk about how Uncle Myler can redeem his transferable points for cash. |
| 0:24.5 | Frequent Myler on the air starts now. |
| 0:28.7 | Today's main event, no longer traveling? |
| 0:32.2 | How to cash out your transferable points? |
| 0:35.6 | Recently, I've had multiple family members ask me, what should they do with their points |
| 0:42.2 | if they're not traveling? |
| 0:44.1 | And of course, I won't let them redeem for bad value. |
| 0:48.3 | So they're kind of stuck. |
| 0:49.7 | So this show, the main event, is intended to tell them and anyone else in a similar situation what they can do with their points and how they can turn it, turn them into cash. Very good. All right. Well, we'll talk about that in a little bit. And remember, if you want to jump ahead to that or you want to come back and visit something later on, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the description |
| 1:10.8 | box to find that. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like, |
| 1:14.7 | give us a thumbs up, leave a comment or some feedback. We always appreciate hearing from you. |
| 1:19.4 | So thank you for that. Let's drag out this week's giant mail back. |
| 1:22.9 | This week's giant mail is about the JetBlue promo, which we'll talk a little bit more about the |
| 1:28.2 | promo a little bit later in the show. But what Sam says is, Greg, you've got to do this. You are |
| 1:37.6 | the frequent miler. Seriously, I've learned so much from you over the years and have always been |
| 1:43.6 | inspired by your know-how, |
| 1:45.2 | but also your adventures. The Richard Branson-Necker Island deal is when you had me hooked. |
| 1:51.3 | It's the game. This is basically a challenge written for Frequent Myler, and I think you and Nick |
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