Our next all travel card | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep315 | 7-18-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast episode, we'll talk about how Bilt is going cardless (but with more cards). We'll see how Etihad is making unfavorable decisions, vying for our Bonvoyed of the year "award", and we'll talk about which credit card is the best for all kinds of travel expenses (since the Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card might night make sense for non-flight, non-hotel travel expenses anymore.)
(Correction Note: The 3x transit category that we mentioned on the Autograph Journey and Autograph cards is only on the Autograph card.)
Giant Mailbag
(01:16) - "In a recent episode, Greg and Nick talked about checking flights you already have booked to see if the [award] price has gone down..."
Find our free checked bags via credit card resource here.
Card News
(07:01) - Citi Strata Elite to be launched in the third quarter of 2025
(08:14) - Bilt switching from Wells Fargo to Cardless next year; adding two premium cards
Bonvoyed
(11:06) - Alliant cashback card changes to flat 1.6% everywhere on 9/1
(12:15) - Etihad makes award changes & cancellations even more confusing and punitive
Read more about Etihad adding award fare buckets and increasing change fees here.
Awards, Points, and More
(17:06) - Greg easily booked a Preferred Hotel with points transferred from Citi
Main Event: Our next "all travel" card
(21:11) - Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card 3x grandfathered until Oct 26. Airlines, hotels, motels, timeshares, car rental agencies, cruise lines, travel agencies, discount travel sites, campgrounds and operators of passenger trains, buses, taxis, limousines, ferries, toll bridges and highways, and parking lots and garages...
(23:26) - So what should our broad travel card be now? Here's what we're looking for...
(24:13) - What about Chase's other cards?
(27:45) - Travel cards that didn't make the cut due to narrow definition of travel
(29:35) - Travel cards that almost made the cut
(31:49) - Broad "Travel" definition cards
(42:36) - What's our pick?
Question of the Week
(48:32) - What's the best strategy to go about closing cards with the intention of opening new ones? This listener offers the Chase Ink Business Unlimited® Credit Card as an example.
Read our complete guide to credit card application rules here.
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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 | On today's show, Built is going cardless with more cards. |
| 0:16.2 | Eddie Hod is vying for Bonvoy of the Year, and we discuss the best all-travel card. |
| 0:23.8 | Frequent Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:28.2 | Today's main event, our next all-travel card. |
| 0:32.7 | The Sephard Reserve card used to be a great general all-around travel card in that it offered great |
| 0:40.2 | rewards for nearly all travel purchases as well as really good travel protections but now things |
| 0:47.4 | have changed now it still offers great travel protections but now it only offers great rewards |
| 0:52.8 | for airfare and hotels. |
| 0:55.0 | And so we're going to be talking about what else is out there? |
| 0:59.0 | What are we going to be turning to now that the Saffir Reserve isn't it? |
| 1:04.0 | And if you'd like to turn directly to that or you'd like to come back to something later on, |
| 1:08.0 | don't forget that you'll always find the timestamps in the show notes. So all you need to do is expand the description box to find |
| 1:15.5 | those timestamps and links to more information about what we're talking about, wherever you're |
| 1:19.7 | watching or listening. Don't forget to like this video or podcast or give us a review and leave |
| 1:24.8 | us a comment. We appreciate all that. Let's drag out this week's giant mailbag. |
| 1:29.0 | In today's giant mail, we have Kelly the Points Novice, who says, in a recent episode, Greg |
| 1:34.8 | and Nick talked about checking flights you have already booked to see if the price has gone |
| 1:38.5 | down. |
| 1:39.4 | I immediately checked our summer pre-and-post cruise one-way flights on United. |
| 1:46.5 | The first was the same, but the return from Fairbanks to Chicago showed savor award availability for 15,000 miles per person, |
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