Shortcuts to airline elite status | Ep237 | 1-13-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Whether you want to earn airline elite status from the comfort of your couch or switch alliances without starting from scratch, this week we talk about how you can score shortcuts to get the status you want.
00:00 Intro
02:28 Giant Mailbag
02:51 Greg-a-culpa
04:43 Nick-a-culpa: Air France actually does have an award chart
https://viewfromthewing.com/air-france-introduces-new-award-chart-free-stopovers/
07:09 T-Tip
11:53 Card Talk: Frontier Airlines World Mastercard
https://frequentmiler.com/f9/
22:00 Mattress Running the Numbers: SimplyMiles stack for Holiday Inn or Holiday Inn Express
https://frequentmiler.com/simplymiles-spend-100-at-holiday-inn-or-holiday-inn-express-earn-930-aadvantage-miles-loyalty-points/
29:04 Award Talk: AA enhancements
29:50 Apply systemwide upgrades online
30:24 Earn miles when paying for upgrades
31:20 Cancel basic economy and get something back for $99
32:13 Loyalty Point choice benefit
34:58 Main Events: Shortcuts to airline elite status
35:00 What is airline elite status?
38:36 Lots of shortcuts exist
39:36 Having credit cards to get perks
41:56 Earning elite status through credit card spend
47:11 Shopping for status
49:56 Status matches
50:47 American Airlines status match
54:44 Delta status match
56:05 United status match
58:18 Alaska status match
58:38 Turkish status match
01:05:58 Southwest A-list status match
01:08:47 Buying status
01:13:27 Other ways to get elite status
01:17:00 Air France: earn XPs without flying
01:18:29 Question of the Week: Is it safe to complete spending for stuff on 12/31?
Music credit: 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 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | 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 Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.4 | Today's main event, shortcuts to airline elite status, also known as pissing off the most frequent of flyers. |
| 0:35.0 | Whoops. |
| 0:35.9 | Whoops. |
| 0:36.3 | Careful there. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.9 | This is the fast track to make somebody angry because they, they got status by sitting on an |
| 0:44.5 | airplane for, you know, 50, 60, 80, 100,000 miles a year. |
| 0:48.9 | And we're going to tell you how to do it without sitting on the airplane for hours |
| 0:52.1 | and hours and hours if you don't want to. |
| 0:54.4 | Right. Right. But don't worry. If you're one of the people that has earned airline elite status, |
| 0:58.6 | the old-fashioned way with a particular airline, we'll show you how to piss off customers of another |
| 1:03.0 | airline by dipping your elite status line there. So there's something for everyone here, I hope. |
| 1:09.6 | Well, something for everyone. That's hope. Well, something for everyone. |
| 1:11.2 | That's right. |
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