Sweet spots realized | Ep169 | 9-24-22
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Having just wrapped up our #3Cards3Continents trips, this week we discuss the sweetspots realized during our journeys and how you can leverage them as well or better in your future travels.
00:57 Giant Mailbag
6:58 What crazy thing . . . did Nick do this week?
11:23 Main Event: Sweetspots realized
11:34 Stretching the Aeroplan award chart 19:50 ANA Round the World Awards
29:05 Turkish for intra-European business class awards for a better experience
32:30 Taking AAdvantage of Middle East to/from Asia sweet spot (40K business / 50K business -- and getting the first class lounge for the business class price)
38:15 Crazy Qatar business class award price: 6K Avios in business class for ~5hrs (no longer available)
40:57 Choice Privileges for Nordic Choice
48:37 Build your own sweet spot with transfer bonuses
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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. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's main event, sweet spots realized. |
| 0:26.6 | You know, we write and talk all the time about award sweet spots, where you can get incredible deals for very few points, very few miles. |
| 0:41.2 | But recently, we've had some opportunity to actually execute a number of those sweet spots. |
| 0:47.9 | Right. We've been digging into dessert left and right here. We're full of sweetness this week. |
| 0:51.9 | That's absolutely true in more ways than one. And so we're |
| 0:56.6 | going to we're going to go over some of those great sweet spots and talk about what we did to |
| 1:02.5 | actually take advantage of them and why they're so good. Or if we found out they're not so good in some |
| 1:07.9 | cases that might come up too. So we'll get into that right after Giant Mailbag. |
| 1:14.9 | Today's Giant Mail comes from me. |
| 1:18.4 | I have mail for the nice A&A agents who messed up an earlier booking I made for my Round the World Award. |
| 1:29.5 | See, here's the story. |
| 1:31.3 | I had wanted really badly to go to Norway to see the fjords. |
| 1:40.4 | I wanted to go on a fjord trip as part of this round the world adventure. |
| 1:45.0 | But I just couldn't make it work with award availability and with the requirement of my |
| 1:51.0 | my A&A Round the World award. |
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