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This is Pura Vida.

Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder.

It's Thursday the 2nd of October.

You might recall yesterday that I was speaking to Rees Jones from Head Four Points. Well, today it's another

Head Four Points Day with Rob Burgess, the founder of that excellent loyalty frequent flyer

website. I was fascinated by something he put out about status matching. Now, you and I, being perhaps ordinary mortals,

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