Our favorite big spend bonuses | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep254 | 5-11-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Some credit cards offer extra perks or progress toward elite status for big spenders. On this week's episode, we talk about which of those bonuses might be worth the spend. But before we get into that, this episode is full of news you can use and tips to keep in mind in regular segments like Card Talk and Mattress Running the Numbers.
(00:00) Intro
(01:26) A tip we neglected to mention regarding positioning flights (Giant Mailbag)
(05:33) Card Talk
(05:46) Venture X Business card losing Priority Pass restaurant access for new Visa cards (Card Talk)
(08:57) Qatar Airways Cardless Cards (Card Talk)
(15:16) What crazy thing . . . did Cardless do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/cardless-appears-to-have-a-1-card-restriction/
(19:32) Mattress running the numbers: Is it worth spending to Qatar Airways elite status?
Note: The Qatar Club Infinite card also comes with bonus Qpoints in the first year, which reduce the path to renewing status for your second year. The spend we discussed regarding renewal of status really applies to status for year 3 and beyond.
(28:17) Award Talk
(28:20) Flying by the Seat of our Points: Frequent Miler's 2024 challenge
https://frequentmiler.com/flying-by-the-seat-of-our-points-last-minute-travel-challenge/
(31:33) You can now use JetBlue points to book Etihad and vice versa
https://frequentmiler.com/earn-redeem-between-jetblue-and-etihad/
(35:30) Bilt adds a new transfer partner....Hilton Honors
https://frequentmiler.com/bilt-adding-hilton-as-newest-transfer-partner-but-transfer-ratio-is-poor/
(37:32) Use Finnair Avios to book Nordic & Scandinavian hotels for great value
https://frequentmiler.com/use-finnair-avios-to-book-scandinavian-hotels-at-2c-per-point-or-better/
(40:30) Amex Travel positive experience honoring a fare
(46:04) Our favorite big spend bonuses
(46:45) Alaska Airlines companion certificates
https://frequentmiler.com/asbiz/
(48:16) Hilton Surpass card free night certificate
https://frequentmiler.com/amxhiltonbiz/
(49:14) Hyatt consumer & business cards
https://frequentmiler.com/woh/
https://frequentmiler.com/wohbiz/
(57:39) IHG Premier & Premier Business cards
https://frequentmiler.com/ihgprem/
https://frequentmiler.com/ihgbusiness/
(1:01:47) Barclays Aviator Silver Loyalty Point bonuses & companion certificate
https://frequentmiler.com/aviatorsilver/
(1:06:20) Aeroplan
https://frequentmiler.com/aeroplan/
(1:09:25) Question of the Week: How did Greg build up capacity for his player 3?
Music credit: 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. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's main event, our favorite big spend bonuses. |
| 0:30.6 | Lots of credit cards offer perks if you spend a lot on the card. |
| 0:34.6 | And we're going to cut through the noise and talk about the ones that we think are actually worth spending on and the ones that we actually do or would do if we had those cards. |
| 0:46.3 | But this show is also, that's just the main event. This show is so chock full of lots of other stuff. There's lots of |
| 0:55.1 | card talk happening. We've got a forple header on your way and lots of good mattress running |
| 1:02.5 | numbers and lots of good award talk. So I'm looking forward to this episode. Full episode today. |
| 1:07.9 | Full episode. Before we jump into all of that, remember that you can find the timestamps in the show notes. So if you don't want to listen to one of the sections or you want to come back and listen to it for a third or fourth time, not just the second. Come on. Keep coming back. Then you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this. Give us some stars and some feedback comment with something interesting that you liked or enjoyed about the episode or something that you have |
| 1:32.3 | a question about. We always love to hear about those things. So please don't forget that. |
| 1:35.7 | And with that out of the way, let's drag out this week's giant mail bag. |
| 1:39.2 | Today's giant mail is just a little piece of mail just from me. Last week we talked about best practices for booking positioning flights. |
| 1:47.4 | And one of the big topics there was booking backup flights. |
| 1:50.8 | So like another flight that you can take in case your initial positioning flight doesn't work out. |
| 1:57.0 | We forgot to mention something really important. |
| 2:01.1 | Whoops. Whoops. |
| 2:01.9 | Whoops. |
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