The new American Airlines Executive card. Is it worth the new fee? | Ep212 | 7-22-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
If you're a loyal American Airlines AAdvantage customer, does this card make sense with the new structure?
00:00 Intro
00:42 Giant Mailbag #1
01:45 Giant Mailbag #2
03:41 What crazy thing . . .did Delta Airlines do this week?
06:13 Award Talk
06:15 MGM and Marriott to partner from October 2023
https://frequentmiler.com/mgm-to-partner-with-marriott-bonvoy-from-october-2023-onward/
10:40 Air Canada has access to more Singapore Airlines space
https://frequentmiler.com/an-air-canada-advantage-far-more-award-space-with-some-partners/
13:49 AAdvantage Hotels
21:00 Main Event: The new AA Executive Card: Is it worth the fee?
https://frequentmiler.com/aa-enhances-the-citi-executive-card-and-encourages-spend-elsewhere/
50:03 Question of the Week
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. |
| 0:10.8 | 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? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.7 | Today's main event, the new American Airlines executive card. |
| 0:30.7 | Is it worth the new fee? |
| 0:32.7 | Cost of business has gone up. |
| 0:35.8 | Is it worth it? |
| 0:36.4 | It has indeed. |
| 0:38.2 | We will see. |
| 0:39.2 | We'll discuss. |
| 0:39.8 | We'll go into all the new features of the card. |
| 0:42.5 | It's going to be interesting because it's exciting in some ways and quite a bummer in other ways. |
| 0:49.4 | And of course, we'll get into that when we get to our main event. |
| 0:52.7 | First, we have Giant Mailbag. |
| 0:56.1 | Today is Giant Mail. |
| 0:57.3 | We've got two double header today. |
| 0:59.2 | So first, in response to last week's show, where I talked about how you can see the transcript |
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