Rove Miles: Transferable Points without a credit card | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep349 | 3-13-26
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast episode, we see that Marriott tops off their top-offs, Aviator Silver cards become unique collectibles, and we'll talk about the best ways to earn and redeem Rove Miles.
Giant Mailbag
(01:07) - Diana shares some thoughts regarding a recent podcast episode, Speed up US entry with Mobile Passport Control | Coffee Break Ep96 | 3-10-26
See the Coffee Break Ep96 here.
Card News
(03:34) - Barclays Aviator to Citi transition April 2026
Learn more about the Barclays Aviator transition to Citi here
(12:44) - Robinhood Platinum Credit Card
Read more about this card here
(15:39) - Southwest companion pass offers ending March 19th 7am ET
Mattress Running the Numbers
(17:22) - Leading Hotels of the World points sale: Get up to 100% bonus
Learn more about the Leading Hotels of the World points sale here
(21:42) - Read Nick's post about family-friendly Leading Hotels of the World properties here
Awards, Points, and More
(24:18) - Marriott making it possible to redeem up to 25K + FNC (up from 15K).
(27:59) - You can now add Marriott gift cards to your Bonvoy account (both in-app & on website)
(30:44) - Amex to fold Tock into Resy in Summer 2026
(34:08) - Spirit Airlines paid status upgrade: Higher status from $79
Main Event: Rove Miles: Transferable Points w/out a credit card
(39:54) - What is Rove?
(42:43) - How to earn Rove Miles
Learn more about Rove Miles here: https://frequentmiler.com/rovemiles/
(56:22) - How to use Rove Miles
(1:00:53) - Rove Miles adds Japan Airlines, launches with 50% transfer bonus through 3/31
(1:02:23) - Rove adds SAS as new transfer partner with 20% transfer bonus through 4/8.
(1:04:28) - Other good transfer partners
Question of the Week
(1:12:28) - Why don't you write about the quality of the airline or hotel itself?
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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 | Today's episode, Marriott, tops off their top-offs. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll talk about how Aviator's silver cards become unique collectibles, |
| 0:19.6 | and we'll discuss the best ways to earn and redeem |
| 0:22.4 | Rove Miles. Frequent Miler on the air starts now. Today's main event, Rov Miles, transferable points |
| 0:31.8 | without a credit card. Rov Miles is a program, a loyalty program, where you can earn points without a credit card, |
| 0:41.3 | and you can spend them in various ways by booking travel with your points, or by transferring to various airline and hotel partners. |
| 0:50.3 | And we think that's a pretty interesting development. Usually you need to get a credit card to get transferable points, but with us, you don't. So we'll get into that in today's main event. And if you want to jump ahead to that or you want to come back to something later on, don't forget you'll always find the timestamps in the show notes. Just expand the description box to read about that. |
| 1:14.1 | And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this. Give us a thumbs up, |
| 1:18.3 | leave us your feedback and your ideas. We always love to hear from you. With that out of the way, |
| 1:22.6 | let's drag out this week's Giant Mail back. Today's Giant Mail comes from Diana. |
| 1:28.3 | She wrote in in response to our coffee break episode, US entry, speed up US entry with mobile passport control. |
| 1:33.3 | She wrote, I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned |
| 1:36.3 | that Global Entry has an app too, |
| 1:38.3 | which is very similar to the Mobile Passport Control app. |
| 1:42.3 | You get a photo of everyone so you can walk through the mobile global entry line. |
| 1:48.7 | Not sure if all airports accept it, but you can go to the front of the global entry line |
| 1:52.8 | at Chicago or San Francisco without a need to use the kiosk or show your passport. |
| 1:59.0 | You just show your approved global entry code on your phone. |
| 2:03.3 | It also requires taking photos of everyone with your phone. I usually do it as the plane is taxiing |
| 2:08.6 | to the gate if we're all sitting together. It approves you ahead of time like the global entry kiosk, |
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