The best transferable points program is... | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep243 | 2-23-24

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

On episode 243 of Frequent Miler on the Air, Greg and Nick dissect the different factors that make a transferable program "the best". Use the timestamps below to navigate to each individual topic within the episode.

(Our apologies for the continued audio issues with Nick's mic.)

(01:38) Uni Portable Toll Transponder (Mail Bag)

- Find the Uni transponder here.

(07:22) Capital One to acquire Discover (Card Talk)

(12:12) New Amex refer-a-friend bonuses through May 22 (+10x restaurants worldwide, up to $25K spend for 3 months)

- Learn more about the Amex refer-a-friend bonus here.

- Learn about the Amex Consumer Gold Card here.

- Learn about the Amex Blue Business Plus Card here.

- Learn about the Amex Business Gold Card here.

(19:22) AA charges more per person for 1 person to fly Madison to Phoenix than for 2 (Crazy Thing)

(22:52) Hyatt Bonus Journeys through 4/30/24 (Mattress Running the Numbers)

- Learn more about the Hyatt Bonus Journeys here.

(29:29) Citi 30% transfer bonus to Virgin through March 16th (Award Talk)

- Learn more about Virgin Sweet Spots here.

(31:50) AwardTool (one-ups PointsYeah, but with controversy...)

- Learn more about AwardTool here.

(37:13) PointsYeah adds child award search

- Learn more about PointsYeah updates here.

(39:40) American Airlines news

(46:05) Contenders for best transferable points program: Chase Ultimate Rewards, Amex Membership Rewards, Capital One Miles, Citi ThankYou Rewards and Bilt Rewards (Main Event)

(48:01) Best transferable points program for: point earning opportunities

(56:00) Best transferable points for: transfer partners

(1:03:19) Best transferable points for: pay with points awards

(1:09:04) Best transferable points for: points management (like moving from one person to another)

(1:19:49) Nick’s pick for overall best transferable points program

(1:21:26) Greg’s pick for best transferable points program

(1:23:27) Nick's runner-up pick for overall best transferable points program

(1:25:42) Greg's runner-up for overall best transferable points program

(1:31:04) Would you feel comfortable booking a Small Luxury Hotel of the World property knowing that the relationship with Hyatt will be ending soon and would you wait for the hopeful integration of Mr. and Mrsh. Smith properties... (Questions of the Week)

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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.
0:22.2	Frequent Milo on the air starts now.
0:27.0	Today's main event, the best transferable points program is dot dot dot.
0:32.6	We're going to get into that in the main event.
0:34.5	We're going to discuss the different transferable points programs, which we're doing because we love transferable points. When there are great award flights or award nights out there to be had, the power of transferable points is that you're not stuck in one particular airline or hotel program. You can move your points to the right program that you need
0:55.2	to book that amazing award. And so they're fantastic. But there's a bunch of them. So we're going to
1:00.5	discuss which is best. They're not all created equally because the value you can get from some
1:05.2	certainly eclipses the value you can get from others. And we'll talk all about that stuff today.
1:09.7	But before we do, let me remind you that you will always find the timestamps in the show notes. So if you just scroll down to where the show notes are, you take a look at that, expand that. You can jump around to different segments if you want to skip ahead to a segment or you want to come back and listen to a segment again. Also remember wherever you're listening to this or watching this, Don't forget to subscribe, like the episode, enable notifications for future episodes because we aren't dropping
1:31.5	some new episodes now. You may have noticed that we've been dropping one on Tuesdays now,
1:35.8	a coffee break episode. So that's a little something new. We've put Ask Us Anything into the feed.
1:40.6	So you'll want to make sure you're subscribed and you have your notifications enabled so
1:43.9	that you find out whenever something new like that comes out. But now, let's drag out this week's
1:48.9	giant mailbag. Yep. Today's giant mail comes from Frank, Indiana. They heard us talking about
1:56.5	rental cars and tolls and how the rental car companies charge a lot for when you go through a toll.
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