Spit shining our 2024 crystal ball | Ep236 | 1-6-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Each member of the Frequent Miler team made predictions for what will happen in loyalty news and credit cards in 2024, but this week we review which of those predictions we think are absolute hogwash and which you can bet your bottom dollar will happen in 2024.
00:00 Intro
01:30 Giant Mailbag
10:42 Award Talk: An Aeroplan cautionary tale
14:20 Follow up on Bonvoyed Awards
https://frequentmiler.com/frequent-milers-readers-choice-bonvoyed-awards-2023-edition/
16:56 Follow up on Deal of the Year
https://frequentmiler.com/deal-of-the-year-2023-2/
18:24 Main Event: Spit-shining our 2024 crystal ball
https://frequentmiler.com/frequent-milers-2024-predictions-for-points-miles-and-travel/
18:30 A look back at 2023 prediction results
22:04 Nick's predictions: Hogwash or cat bath?
24:39 Greg's predictions: Hogwash or cat bath?
28:52 Carrie's predictions: Hogwash or cat bath?
30:38 Stephen's predictions: Hogwash or cat bath?
34:15 Tim's predictions: Hogwash or cat bath?
46:24 Question of the Week #1: Should I reduce withholdings to make estimated tax payments with a credit card?
https://frequentmiler.com/pay-taxes-via-credit-card/
46:19 Question of the Week #2: Does it ever make sense to apply for a card knowing that you'll not get the welcome bonus?
50:49 Question of the Week #3: Have you considered releasing Ask Us Anything as a podcast?
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? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's main event, Spit Shining, our 2024 crystal ball. |
| 0:31.6 | Recently, the Frequent Miler team published points in miles predictions for 2024, and most of them are complete hogwash. |
| 0:39.8 | So Nick and I today are going to cut through the hogwash and figure out which ones are |
| 0:47.0 | actually going to happen. And so this will be your roadmap to 24 miles and points world. |
| 0:53.5 | What's really going to happen this year? |
| 0:56.0 | And if you don't know where you're going, how are you going to get there? So we got to give you the map, right? So you'll have the map by the end of today's episode. Well, a map. I don't know if I're going to call it the map. You'll have a map by the end of today's episode and we'll see where it leads you in terms of accurate or inaccurate destinations. In the meantime, remember, if you're new to the show, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So if you scroll down to the description of the show or wherever you're listening to this, look at the description of the show, it'll have time stamps in there. So if you want to jump ahead, skip a segment, come back to a segment later on to listen to it again. You can do that. Wherever you're |
| 1:31.2 | watching or listening to this, don't forget to like it. Give us a thumbs up, leave a comment. |
| 1:35.5 | We appreciate all those things. It helps other people discover the show too. So all that out of the way. |
| 1:40.7 | Let's drag out this week's giant mailbag. Yeah, today's giant mail comes from me. |
| 1:46.8 | I recently published the |
| 1:50.8 | 2023 Frequent Miler State of the Business Report. |
| 1:54.6 | This is something I started in 2022, intending it to be an annual thing. |
| 1:59.5 | And so I actually published it again in 2023. |
| 2:02.8 | So now it's officially annual, now that we've done it twice. |
| 2:06.6 | Basically, the idea is to let our followers know how the frequent |
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