Shortcuts to AA elite status | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep251 | 4-19-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
American Airlines status isn't as easy as it used to be, but there are some shortcuts for those who think they'll be flying American Airlines enough to really want it. We'll discuss those shortcuts in this episode of Frequent Miler on the Air.
(00:58) - Reader, Matt has been frustrated by Bilt's customer service... (Mailbag)
(07:16) - AAdvantage® Aviator Red World Elite MasterCard (Card Talk)
Find out more about this card here: https://frequentmiler.com/AviatorRed/#Goto
We covered these a year ago in the show: Amassing American Airlines Miles | Ep199 | 4-22-23, which you can find here: https://frequentmiler.com/amassing-american-airlines-miles/
(10:22) - AAdvantage® Aviator Silver World Elite MasterCard® (Card Talk)
(19:01) - Capital One switches Venture card from Visa to MasterCard...but switches Venture X Biz from MasterCard to Visa (Crazy Thing)
(22:03) - Transfer bonus from Citi to Accor (Mattress Running the Numbers)
(26:26) - Strawberry Hotels (formerly Nordic Choice) Summer Pass (Mattress Running the Numbers)
(33:42) - Etihad A380 first class apartment awards available New York to Abu Dhabi (Award Talk)
(37:48) - Qatar cards from Cardless (Award Talk)
(39:56) - Daily Getaways (Award Talk)
Read more about the Daily Getaways here: https://frequentmiler.com/daily-getaways-2024-complete-preview-of-all-the-deals/
Main Event: Shortcuts to AA elite status
(45:26) - American Airlines Elite Overview
(48:40) - Loyalty Point Rewards
(50:42) - Shortcuts to American Airlines Elite Status
(1:04:03) - What is the role of AI in the travel-hacking space? (Question of the Week)
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Music Credit - "Ocean Deep" by Annie Yoder
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.6 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.9 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.1 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Liler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.8 | Today's main event, shortcuts to American Airlines elite status. |
| 0:31.1 | We're going to talk about different ways you could get elite status for less than would normally be required. |
| 0:36.6 | So you don't really have to be that loyal to have your loyalty status or to earn your loyalty |
| 0:42.6 | points. It's kind of counterintuitive. But we'll talk more about what that's all about later on. |
| 0:47.2 | First, though, don't forget that we always have the timestamps in the show notes. So if you |
| 0:51.2 | want to jump ahead to something or go back and visit it again, you can just check the show notes for the full descriptions of the sections and the timestamps. And wherever you're watching this or listening to it, don't forget to like it. Give us a thumbs up. Leave us some stars. Lots of them. The more, the better. Now, our comment and that sort of thing, we always appreciate that. All right, Greg, drag out this week's giant mail bag. This week's giant mail comes from Matt, who I don't think is going to be giving us any stars anytime soon, but we'll see. |
| 1:16.6 | Uh-oh. |
| 1:17.6 | Uh-oh. |
| 1:18.6 | Uh-oh. |
| 1:19.6 | Matt says, I am frustrated by Bilt's customer service, and I would like you to reconsider your ardent support for them. I got sucked in by your |
| 1:29.3 | exceedingly positive comments over the past six months, but my experience has been nothing but |
| 1:34.2 | frustrating. After linking seven rewards programs, which all appear to be fully linked, I tested transfers |
| 1:40.0 | with 2,000 points each, and only Marriott worked. The rest gave me errors that only say something went wrong. |
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