Our end-of-year miles & points check-lists | Ep336 | 12-12-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast episode we hear about one reader's status magic, how Nick's family got stuck in HEL-sinki, and we make our end-of-year to-do list with your help.
Giant Mailbag
(01:41) - One reader's experience with unexpected status benefits
See episode 334 "Super Stacking Stories" here.
Card News
(04:45) - Both Citi AAdvantage Business cardholders & authorized users earn Loyalty Points on purchases (Read more here)
(07:31) - Reminder: last call to triple-dip credit cards
Awards, Points, and More
(12:21) - Read about how Nick was stuck in HEL here
Bonvoyed
(21:10) - American Express transfer ratio to Cathay Pacific will reduce to 5:4 3/1/26
Main Event: Our end-of-year miles & points checklists
(27:42) - Read more about our end-of-year checklist for 2025 here
(29:11) - Elite Status Airlines
(37:59) - Elite Status Hotels
(45:21) - Elite Choice Benefit selections
(48:59) - Southwest Companion Pass
(52:07) - See our Coffee Break episode 81 "The Southwest Debit Card is actually interesting" here
(53:21) - Credit card coupons
(1:13:36) - Summary of our major To-Dos
Question of the Week
(1:15:16) - How do you manage continued spending on a card after meeting the spend requirement for a welcome bonus?
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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. |
| 0:10.9 | On today's episode, we talk about Matt's status magic in the giant mailbag. |
| 0:16.7 | My family gets stuck in hell, sinking, and we make our end of the year to-do list with your help. |
| 0:23.8 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:28.1 | Today's main event, our end of year Miles and Points checklist. |
| 0:33.1 | So as we get towards the end of the year, there's a lot of stuff in miles and points |
| 0:38.1 | that we have to remember to get done. |
| 0:40.7 | If we're chasing elite status, a lot of times |
| 0:43.2 | that means having to complete the number of stays |
| 0:47.1 | or fly the number of miles that are required |
| 0:49.4 | to get to the next level of status that we want. |
| 0:52.2 | Or maybe we have a bunch of those high-end credit cards |
| 0:56.0 | filled with valuable coupons and we want to use those coupons before it's too late. There's all |
| 1:01.6 | kinds of things like that that we need to get done. And honestly, I was getting a little overwhelmed |
| 1:07.5 | about all of it for myself. And so I wanted to use this as sort of a |
| 1:10.8 | therapy session and force me to go through the big things. What are the things that I've left to do? |
| 1:17.6 | I'll tell some stories about, you know, how I use some of the coupons and whatnot and what I'm doing |
| 1:23.0 | to get there. And Nick will do the same. Let me be clear. You don't want me as your therapist, |
| 1:28.5 | all right? I'm not going to help make it better. I'm in the same shoes. And if you are too and you want to jump ahead to a specific segment, a specific piece of the story, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the description box where you'll find that. And remember wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like the video or give us a review on the |
| 1:47.2 | podcast, leave us some stars. We always appreciate that |
| 1:50.0 | wherever you're watching or listening. Thank you for that. Now let's drag out this week's |
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