The end of the points & miles game? | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep307 | 5-23-25

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture, Aviation

4.9 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This week we'll lean about the "ultimate life hack", we'll gripe about how we're being Bonvoyed every which way, and we'll debate: is the points and miles game dead?

(01:14) - Listeners respond to our "Points for the next generation" podcast Ep306 with some great life hacks...

You can find our "Points for the next generation" podcast Ep306 here.

(08:53) - Nick's schedule change story

Read more about Nick's schedule change story here.

(16:17) - The Blackjack Apprenticeship Podcast

Find our guest appearance on the Blackjack Apprenticeship podcast "AP Life Skills: Maximizing Your Edge with Credit Card Rewards" on Spotify here or on Apple Podcasts here...

(17:43) - Hilton 200K awards: See: Hashing out Hilton's Devaluation | Coffee Break Ep56 | 5-20-25 here

(18:45) - Bonvoyed: Marriott elites shouldn't expect suites

(22:02) - Marriott's Dearborn Inn Autograph Collection: No free breakfast for Platinum Elites

Main Event: The end of the points & miles game?

(47:50) - Doomsday Events

(50:15) - On the other hand, welcome bonuses higher than ever

(51:58) - Category bonuses higher than ever

(54:00) - More opportunities for transferable points than ever before

(57:02) - Transfer bonuses very common

(59:27) - New award sweet-spots keep popping up all the time

(1:03:10) - Great tools make it easier to find awards

(1:10:09) - Valuable promotions pop up randomly

(1:17:45) - Do devaluations like Hilton's feel like a bigger deal to non-bloggers (who maybe have fewer points?)

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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.
0:10.5	On today's show, we'll unveil the ultimate life hack. We'll discuss how we've been
0:16.4	Bonvoid every which way. And finally, we'll debate whether the game is dead.
0:22.6	Frequent Miller on the air starts now.
0:26.6	Today's main event, is this the end of the Points in Miles game?
0:32.6	Programs keep devaluing, Great Sweet Spot Awards keep disappearing.
0:39.3	Opportunities to earn hundreds of thousands of points go away.
0:44.3	Is this the end?
0:46.3	You know, the end always feels like it's nearer than it really is, right?
0:51.3	And I will talk about it. Maybe that's not the truth because it's easy to kind of, I think, celebrate the glory days and, and lose track of all the new opportunities that come around. But we'll see. Maybe you'll convince me that we have reached the beginning of the end. In the meantime, if you want to jump ahead to something or you want to come back to it later on, don't forget, you'll find the timest the show notes so just expand that show description that's also where you'll find links to a lot of the things that we've been talking about during today's episode and wherever you're watching or listening don't forget to like the video or the podcast leave us a rating leave us a comment we always appreciate stuff. We also always appreciate when people send us
1:27.7	giant mail, so let's drag out this week's giant mailback. All right. And today's giant mail,
1:31.7	we've got three things to cover. First two are in reaction to our show points for the next generation,
1:39.2	where one of the things that we talked about during that show was how Nick and I create Gmail, email
1:47.3	addresses for the people in our life, our children, maybe spouses, where we manage their loyalty
1:56.3	programs. And so we use those new email addresses to manage those things. And multiple people
2:04.2	reached out and said, hey, you don't have to create new email addresses. You can, if you're using
2:09.9	Gmail, you can just stick a dot anywhere in the email address. It looks like a different email
2:16.9	address to the loyalty program, but all the mail
2:21.6	will come to you. So what do you think about that, Nick? Well, it's a good tip. I mean,
2:26.9	it's certainly one that I'm familiar with, and I've used in many situations in the past,
2:33.8	it's not one I usually use with loyalty programs.
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