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Southwest LUVs cardholders | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep304 | 5-2-25

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9640 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, we're schooled about Wells Fargo cards, we learn about earning points on your mortgage, and we talk about how you can take the sting out of Southwest's customer unfriendly changes.

(01:03) - Listeners give us more ideas about making a great Wells Fargo Wallet

Find our episode "A World-Class Wells Fargo Wallet" here.

(08:20) - Mesa Homeowners Card: Earn transferable points on mortgage payments

(14:20) - Goldbelly no longer selling $10 gift cards (minimum is $25)

(16:06) - Read about maximizing your "coupon" credits from American Express here.

(16:15) - Capital One Shopping pulls many good gift card redemption options (and it varies from one cardholder to the next!)

(20:05) - Pepper Rewards app not working (Taking payment but not producing gift cards, no coin...

(22:44) - Likely: JetBlue partnering with United

(27:51) - AA reducing award holds to 24 hours

(29:04) - Emirates breaking up with some transferable currencies (temporarily?)

Read more about this Emirates speculation here.

(31:39) - Transfer SAS to Scandic hotels and back

Main Event: Southwest LUVs cardholders

(34:26) - New Details announced (fare bundles, bags, credit cards)

(41:09) - Cardholders will win big

(47:05) - Is Southwest Priority Card the best airline card ever?

(53:09) - Is Southwest Priority Card even better than elite status?

(57:23) - But....is the writing on the wall?

(1:01:19) - If you have a major purchase you weren't expecting, which credit card would you put it on (and how would you decide?)

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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder

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0:00.0

This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at

0:07.1

voyescape.com. On today's show, a couple of you school us about Wells Fargo credit cards.

0:16.2

We'll learn about how you can earn transferable points just by paying your mortgage. And we'll learn how

0:22.2

Southwest credit cards can take the sting out of the coming customer unfriendly changes.

0:28.0

Frequent Miller on the air starts now. Today's main event, Southwest loves cardholders.

0:37.2

Southwest has made a number of customer unfriendly moves

0:40.1

lately, but as we started to learn more about how they're going to treat cardholders, we've

0:46.8

discovered that the cardholders might actually like some of the changes that are happening.

0:51.9

Yeah, I think cardholders are going to make out really well, much better than average. So we'll see. We'll see how that works out for you when you listen to that part of today's show. Speaking of which, remember, if you want to jump ahead to something or you want to come back to something, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the show description to find that. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to give this a thumbs up, like it, leave us a review. We always appreciate those things.

1:15.0

It's time to drag out this week's giant mail bag. All right. This week's giant mail is several

1:21.0

pieces of mail in reaction to our show, a world-class Wells Fargo wallet, where we talked all about

1:27.4

how you could put together a great Wells Fargo wallet where we talked all about how you could put together a great

1:29.7

Wells Fargo wallet by assembling together several different cards. And Jonathan wrote, among other things,

1:38.1

he wrote, to my surprise, Wells Fargo allows you to transfer as little as a single point. So that's really unusual.

1:46.9

Usually, with most programs, you have to transfer at least a thousand points at a time.

1:51.9

Jonathan says that you can actually transfer one point at a time. Yeah, you know, I remember that

1:57.4

being discussed when the cards first came out and then points first became transferable, but it was one of those pieces of the knowledge that I remember hearing about, and I kind of followed it away and totally forgot that I knew it because I don't have one of the Wells Fargo cards, so I've not been in the habit of using us.

2:11.6

But I remember when they first came out, we wrote about how they could be great for topping up whatever you need for a specific redemption because

2:18.2

you can transfer to the single point digit, single digit point, whatever. You know what I'm saying.

2:24.5

Yeah. Yeah. So that's a, that's a really nice trick. You know, I don't think they support transfers

2:30.1

to Eddie Hod, but they would be great. They would be perfect because the problem with Eddie Hod we've

2:36.2

discussed on the show before is sometimes you'll see you can book this American Airlines flight

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