*Please* tell us how to find business class awards | Ep159 | 7-16-22
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 18 July 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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[Update: The wrong episode was initially loaded. This update includes the correct episode.]. Wondering how to find those elusive business class awards? Greg and Nick discuss the tricks in their toolbags.
00:28 Giant Mailbag
1:48 Mattress running the numbers: Daily Getaways
https://frequentmiler.com/daily-getaways-2022-first-2-weeks-of-offers-announced/
Are any of these deals worth speculatively buying? Our analysis:
3:46 IHG points for half a cent each
4:35 Hilton points for half a cent each
4:47 Wyndham points for 1.17c each
5:30 Best Western at 0.55cpp
6:38 Choice points for 0.52cpp
8:35 Marriott gift cards for 20% off
Hyatt points
11:31 #3Cards2Continents3Updates
https://frequentmiler.com/frequent-milers-2022-team-challenge-3-cards-3-continents/
23:34 Awards we booked this week
27:00 What crazy thing....did London Heathrow Airport do this week?
30:18 Main Event: PLEASE tell us how to find business class awards.
1:11:17 When is Ask Us Anything?
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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 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.4 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.2 | Frequent Liler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.8 | Today's main event, please tell us how to find business class awards. |
| 0:34.0 | How do you work that sorcery? |
| 0:36.8 | So today's topic comes directly from our giant mailbag in a way. |
| 0:44.5 | So I'm going to jump right into the giant mail. |
| 0:47.4 | This giant mail comes from in response to my post saying, I finally booked my Around the World Award. |
| 0:56.8 | And in the comments, Carolyn said, could you please, all capitals please, describe the process |
| 1:04.2 | that you go through to find these business class awards. |
| 1:07.5 | I'm unable to find anything that would get me around the world in business class for those few miles. Easy to find in coach, but never business. Thank you in advance. So you're welcome in advance, Kerylund, because we're going to step you through the process in today's main event. The two of us have been doing some searching for business class awards, right? I mean, it's fair to say. two of us have done a little bit of searching this last couple of hours. Oh, my gosh. It's been on our minds 24-7 and it doesn't stop even after booking. It doesn't stop. No, it doesn't. I've been at dinner and I'm like pulling up my phone. Hang on, let me just look up this one more thing. And my wife asked me to get her a glass of milk or something. And I sit down, I'm still searching on the phone. |
| 1:47.7 | And she starts to. dinner and I'm like pulling up my phone. Hang on, let me just look up this one more thing. My wife asked me to get her a glass of milk or something. |
| 1:45.9 | When I sit down, I'm still searching on the phone and she starts to get up. |
| 1:48.7 | I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not thinking straight. Just thinking about awards. So we'll talk about it, Carolyn. We got it on our months. We do. We do. Today we're going to start next with the mattress running the numbers. |
| 2:02.2 | So today's mattress running is regarding the Daily Getaways. |
| 2:07.9 | All right. |
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