Our 2026 points forecast: coupony with a chance of acquisitions | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep339 | 1-2-26
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
In this week's podcast episode, we'll talk about stacking 2025 and 2026 JetBlue elite perks, how you can use Visa cards you already own to get free international roaming, and we'll predict what's coming to points & miles in 2026.
Giant Mailbag
(01:09) - "I certainly admire the continued approach to display only the best offer even if it is not the affiliate link, but I may suggest that you consider showing both options for readers. I am happy to support the site and would likely be willing to choose an inferior offer in many cases, should it be beneficial to the site."
(04:45) - What to do when Chase Sapphire Reserve® Exclusive Tables removes a restaurant without notice...
See a list of Sapphire Reserve® Exclusive Tables here
(07:28) - A Sapphire Reserve The Edit credit success story...
(11:02) - A 25for25 challenge success story
Awards, Points, and More
(16:45) - Visa Signature / Infinite GigSky benefit (Nick's experience)
Learn more about the GigSky free eSIM opportunity here
Main Event: Our 2026 points forecast: coupony with a chance of acquisitions
(21:31) - New credit cards
(37:21) - Card refreshes
(55:31) - New transfer opportunities
(1:09:35) - Mega promos
(1:17:27) - Devaluations
(1:25:01) - Misc other
(1:32:10) - Guaranteed Predictions
Question of the Week
(1:33:50) - What's in your digital wallet? Do you keep all of your cards in your digital wallet?
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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. |
| 0:10.5 | On today's show, we discussed the ability to stack 2025 and 2026 JetBlue Elite Perks. |
| 0:19.9 | We talk about using Visa cards you probably already own to get free international roaming, |
| 0:26.4 | and we predict what's coming to points in miles in 26. |
| 0:30.9 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:35.3 | Today's main event, our 2026 points forecast forecast coupony with a chance of acquisitions on today's show |
| 0:42.9 | we're going to look at trends in the points in miles world and project forward into 2026 and tell you |
| 0:49.5 | what's likely to happen this year in this space yeah you know we have our crystal balls all polished up and ready to go, and hopefully we got some clarity. We'll see, though. Of course, time will tell. Remember, speaking of time, if you'd like to jump ahead to one of the timestamps or go back to something later on, you can always find those timestamps in the show notes. Just expand the description box and wherever you're watching or listening. Don't forget to like this video, give us a thumbs |
| 1:14.8 | up. Leave your comments with your predictions for 2026 and we'll see who gets them right. With that |
| 1:20.6 | out of the way, let's drag out this week's giant mailback. Today's giant mail is absolutely |
| 1:25.3 | stuffed with entries. |
| 1:30.5 | So we're going to start with Eric. |
| 1:33.9 | Eric writes in, happy holidays to the team. |
| 1:37.3 | As another year goes by, I wanted to thank you for everything that you do. |
| 1:40.2 | I've enjoyed reading and listening for a number of years, |
| 1:43.7 | and you've been instrumental in my success in the Miles and Points world. I look forward to listening |
| 1:44.9 | to the podcast twice a week. As it pertains to your recent coffee break and discuss discussion of the |
| 1:51.5 | affiliate links, I certainly admire the continued approach to display only the best offer, even if it is not an |
| 1:58.6 | affiliate link. But I may suggest that you consider showing both options for readers. |
| 2:04.6 | I'm happy to support the site and would likely be willing to choose an inferior credit card offer in many cases, |
| 2:11.6 | should it be beneficial to the site. |
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