Preparing For The End of 2024 | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep284 | 12-6-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
There are a lot of things in the points and miles world that kind of come to a head at the end of the year, so you'll want to know what you should be taking care of here at the end of 2024. And of course, read our end of year checklist for 2024 here.
(01:30) - What happens when a Choice Rewards hotel booking has no record of your reservation, but the points are missing?
(07:32) - Preferred Hotels now bookable with iPrefer points
(16:34) - Amex 40% transfer bonus to Virgin Atlantic
(21:31) - Earn elite status
(23:05) - Do you have enough MQDs for Delta elite status? Check out our post here.
(24:48) - Remember to time your SouthWest companion pass properly Read our Complete Guide to the SouthWest companion pass here.
(28:37) - Marriott Bonvoy: Easiest option is Bonvoy Brilliant, but you can read about the many other options here.
(44:11) - Use airline incidental credits by December
(47:42) - Platinum $200 calendar year. See Amex airline fee reimbursements. What still works?
(56:19) - Apply for cards with annual credits
(57:47) - Transfer / pool points
(1:02:19) - Redeem points or miles for annual rebates
(1:03:48) - With the Caesar's Diamond status match ending, is there anything Wyndham Earner Business card-holder's should take advantage of now?
Read more about this status match ending here.
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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. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.9 | Today's main event, preparing for the end of 2024. |
| 0:31.3 | There's lots of things in the points in Miles world that kind of come to a head at the end of the calendar year. |
| 0:37.3 | And you've got to be |
| 0:38.3 | ready for them with if you're chasing elite status or things to button up there. If you're |
| 0:43.1 | trying to use your credits on your credit cards are probably things that you sort of know that |
| 0:49.7 | you need to get to but haven't really thought about for a while. So it's it's time to get to them. We're going to talk about some of the bigger ones that you need to be attending to in today's main event. Yeah, and it's great timing for me because just being early December here, we were taking a look today at spreadsheets and saying, okay, which benefits do we still have to use? What do we have to make sure we use up, Trying to make sure that we get all that stuff done so that we get full value out of our cards. |
| 1:13.6 | So we'll talk more about how to do that today. But don't forget, if you want to jump ahead to a specific segment or come back to it later on, you'll always find the timestamps in the show notes. Just expand the show description to find that. We also always share links there to more resources about the stuff that we're talking about. |
| 1:28.5 | So if you want to hear a little bit more about a particular topic, you can usually find it there. And don't forget wherever you're watching or listening. Please give us a thumbs up, like the video, leave us a comment, leave us some feedback. We always appreciate those things. All right, Greg, drag out this week's Giant Mail bag. This week's giant mail is giant, so you'll have to forgive me. |
| 1:46.3 | I'm going to be reading for a while. |
| 1:47.6 | This one comes from Linda, who says, |
| 1:50.2 | last month I booked a two-night reservation using 96,000 choice points for a resort in Honolulu. |
| 1:59.1 | The resort is a preferred hotel hotel and I booked through the Choice |
| 2:03.9 | Hotel's website. This afternoon, when I tried to cancel the reservation using the special |
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