Rakuten Visa is dead to us, Alaska joins OneWorld, and Virgin partners up
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this week's FM on the Air, Greg and Nick discuss:
- The Rakuten Visa no longer earns 3X for gift cards. Is the card dead to us?
- Alaska joins OneWorld. How bad is that?
- Virgin Atlantic partners with Air France & KLM. We highlight the sweet spot awards that are now possible.
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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. |
| 0:11.7 | Hey, Nick, are you ready for yet another frequent miler on the air episode? |
| 0:16.7 | Yes, I am. It's the weekend. It's time for another FM on the air. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm always excited to be here talking miles and points about what's going on in the world of award travel. So, great to be here. |
| 0:27.2 | Wow. You're enthusiastic. It looks like you're at, looks like you're at home. Is that right? |
| 0:32.7 | I am at home, which is unfortunate in so many ways because, you know, it's... |
| 0:37.3 | Wait, why is that? You know, I always say that so many ways because, you know, it's, why is that? |
| 0:38.6 | You know, I always say that so my father was born in Puerto Rico, raised in New York City. |
| 0:43.4 | And so I always say that my blood is tropical. So I am like cold blooded. I need to get out of |
| 0:49.7 | here in the winter. And so I tend to try to stay far from home if I can during the wintertime because |
| 0:55.7 | today's high is supposed to be like 17 here. And that's not even bad for here, but it's bad for me. |
| 1:02.3 | So I've just been looking at these places and thinking I got all these points. I need to get away |
| 1:07.0 | from here and somewhere warmer. And I was talking know, I was talking with my wife just, |
| 1:11.9 | I think it was yesterday the day before. And she's like, you know, it's been a really mild winter. And I laughed because like maybe an hour before that, she was like, I really want to get away and go somewhere warm. Where can we go for a few days to get out of here? So what about you? How have things been there in Ann Arbor? |
| 1:27.0 | It looks like... |
| 1:27.4 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:28.0 | It's just as bad. |
| 1:29.4 | We're expecting a high of 20. What about you? How have things been there in Ann Arbor? It looks like... Oh, yeah. |
| 1:28.0 | It's just as bad. |
| 1:29.4 | We're expecting a high of 20 today. |
| 1:33.3 | And for... |
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