Rewarding Giving | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep332 | 11-14-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we'll talk about Virgin's double-or-nothing bad math promo, how to fly to Europe for 88 miles, and how to earn more rewards while charitably giving.
Giant Mailbag
(00:56) - A fun story about Mariner tickets from a Capital One deal where the seats were almost too good.
Read more about Capital One Cardholder Exclusives Major League Baseball tickets here
Card News
(04:56) - Venture X offers. Learn more about the Capital One Venture X Business Card here
(08:48) - Learn more about Melio here
(09:34) - Learn how to pay taxes via credit card here
(10:07) - Learn more about the Capital One Venture X Rewards Card
(11:47) - Ink Business Unlimited® Credit Card and Ink Business Cash® Credit Card have added some concerning language to terms in the application flow
Learn more about the Ink Business Unlimited® Credit Card here (https://frequentmiler.com/CIBU/#Goto), and the Ink Business Cash® Credit Card here (https://frequentmiler.com/CIC/#Goto).
(15:19) - Chase offers Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card & Sapphire Reserve for Business℠Card cardholders 1.5cpp for Apple products through Dec 7
Crazy Thing: Virgin shopping portal
Bonvoyed
(19:14) - SAS Devaluation
Awards, Points, and More
(22:53) - Wyndham gifting elite status bump or 5x rewards through the end of the year
(24:22) - Air France calendar now includes partners
(25:49) - Lufthansa Miles & More: economy flights to Europe for 88 miles + ~$200
(27:03) - Consider using our Rove link here: frequentmiler.com/rovemiles/
(30:21) - Jetblue 25/25 tracker (read more about the Jetblue 25/25 tracker here: https://frequentmiler.com/jetblue-has-added-a-25-for-25-progress-tracker-see-where-you-stand/)
(33:27) - Greg's experience canceling a Preferred Hotel booked with/ Choice
(38:47) - (Targeted) Capital One Shopping offering up to 25.5% cashback on British Airways flights (read more about this targeted offer here: https://frequentmiler.com/targeted-capital-one-shopping-offering-up-to-25-5-cashback-on-british-airways-flights/)
(41:46) - Chase now lets you see all The Edit by Chase Travelâ„ hotels
US credit card guide has a Map of all The Edit by Chase Travelâ„ hotels. (See the map of The Edit hotels here: https://www.uscreditcardguide.com/a-map-for-the-edit-by-chase-travel/)
Main Event: Rewarding Giving
(45:15) - Finding worthy charities
Charity Navigator (https://www.charitynavigator.org/)
Charity Watch (https://www.charitywatch.org/)
Guidestar (https://www.guidestar.org/)
GreatNonprofits (https://greatnonprofits.org/)
(46:48) - Or, let others assign the money where it will do the most good
GiveWell (https://www.givewell.org/)
(48:08) - Earn credit card rewards without passing along transaction fees to your favorite charity
PayPal Giving Fund Fundraiser Hub (https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/hub)
(50:06) - Kiva microloans
(Learn more about Kiva or find our referral link here: https://frequentmiler.com/kiva/)
Question of the Week
(1:01:17) - A question about traveling with children
(1:03:03) - A question about whether or not it's worth mattress-running 2 nights to get Club Access Awards for future travel
(1:07:11) - What happens when your flight gets canceled (especially if you booked it with one airline, but flew another?) And what are you entitled to?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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| 0:53.8 | On today's show, we'll talk about Virgin's double or nothing, bad math promo. |
| 0:58.8 | We'll talk about flying to Europe for just 88 miles, and we'll talk about how to earn more |
| 1:03.3 | rewards while charitably giving. |
| 1:05.2 | Frequent miler on the air starts now. |
| 1:09.3 | Today's main event, rewarding, giving. It's great to give to charity, but it's even greater |
| 1:15.0 | when you can get rewarded when doing so. We're going to talk about a number of ways to donate |
| 1:20.3 | to your favorite charities and do really well in return with points and miles. And remember, |
| 1:26.5 | if you'd like to jump ahead to that topic or you want to come back and revisit something later on, you can always go to the show notes for the timestamps. You'll have links. So just expand the show description. Speaking of links, you'll also have links to more information about the things that we talk about during the various segments today. So look to the show notes for all that. |
| 1:44.2 | Wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this. Give us a thumbs up. |
| 1:47.5 | Leave us a comment or a review. We always love to hear from you. Now let's drag out this week's |
| 1:52.0 | giant mail bag. Today's giant mail is from Judy. Judy's writing in about Capital One baseball |
| 1:58.5 | tickets. You know how every now and then Capital One releases a set of special seats that are really |
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