The bright side of Hyatt's (potential) Globalist shake-up | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep351 | 3-27-26
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast episode, we'll talk about who we would want to buy JetBlue, how Amex missed the mark with its new business card, and the key to preserving our loyalty if Hyatt "mile-stone-ifies" elite benefits.
Giant Mailbag
(02:16) - Adam: Why does the Aviator Silver card list as $199 annual fee on other sites across the internet, except for yours?
Learn more about the Aviator Silver card here
Card News
(04:33) - New: American Express Graphite™ Business Cash Unlimited Card
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Awards, Points, and More
(09:03) - JetBlue is looking for a buyer that can clear regulatory approval: United, Alaska, or Southwest
(16:16) - Bilt authorized user updates, transfer partner updates
(22:31) - Bilt using Points Path
Learn more about Bilt changes here
(25:17) - Wyndham points sale: Buy Wyndham points for as low as 0.65 cents each thru May 1
(25:51) - MealMaxxer, a cool map tool for finding stacks with Resy, inKind, Bilt Dining, and more
Learn more about MealMaxxer here
Main Event: The bright side of Hyatt's (potential) Globalist shake-up
(28:59) - Learn more about Hyatt may be shaking up Globalist status here
(33:40) - Greg's glass-half-full take: Not as bad as many fear & several positives
(38:15) - Greg's 1 huge key assumption
(40:37) - The potential negatives
(46:38) - The potential positives
(48:42) - Nick's reaction
Question of the Week
(56:56) - With more and more merchants adding additional fees for credit card processing, do you consider if it's best to use a debit card?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by 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. |
| 0:10.9 | On today's show, we discuss who we want to buy JetBlue. |
| 0:15.5 | Amex really misses the mark with their new business card, |
| 0:19.0 | and we'll discuss the key to preserving our loyalty |
| 0:21.8 | if Hyatt milestoneifies elite benefits. |
| 0:25.1 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:29.2 | Today's main event, the bright side of Hyatt's potential globalist shakeup. |
| 0:35.0 | Last week, Hyatt sent out surveys to some members asking about potential |
| 0:41.3 | changes to their top elite tier, including a new higher elite tier. And most of the points |
| 0:51.4 | in Miles world reacted with scorn. |
| 0:55.0 | I thought it all looked really bad. |
| 0:58.0 | But Nick has often accused me of always finding the bright side of pretty much any situation. |
| 1:05.0 | And I actually see a lot of bright side in the potential changes here. |
| 1:10.0 | So on today's main event, we'll walk you through |
| 1:12.4 | what the potential changes are and where I see bright side to all of it. Yeah, I mean, you are. |
| 1:20.2 | You are good at always seeing the bright side, and that's good. You need some of that because it's |
| 1:23.6 | easy to see the doom and gloom, right? Kind of reminds me there was a song in a Broadway show. It's like, |
| 2:02.7 | Always look on the bright side of a lot. Yeah. I don't easy to see the doom and gloom, right? Kind of reminds me there was a song in a Broadway show. It's like, always look on the bright side of love. Yeah. I won't sing anymore. That was featured heavily in Monty Python's. Oh, spam a lot, right? I forget which movie. But anyway, yeah, they're on a cross and singing. Oh, I haven't seen the movie. It won't surprise Greg that I haven't seen. Life of Brian, I think. There you go. Anyway, never seen a Monty Python movie. Anyway, moving on. If you want to come up ahead. You've never seen Monty Python movie. Oh, my God, every day we learn a new thing that Nick has, new movie or TV show Nick has not seen. Anyway, that's fun for us on the Freakomiler team. All right. So, so if you want to jump ahead to hear the bright |
| 2:09.0 | side of potential high globalist changes or you want to come back to something later on, don't |
| 2:13.1 | forget you can find the timestamps in the show notes. You can always find that by just |
| 2:17.0 | expanding the description box. Wherever you're listening or in the show notes. You can always find that by just expanding the description box. |
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