Tips for finding impossible awards | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep360 | 5-29-26
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode will provide a whole grab bag of tips for how to find those impossible award bookings for your award travel goals.
(02:32) - Here's a grab bag of techniques, and keep in mind it's often necessary to use multiple
(03:09) - Be flexible!
(06:48) - Look towards the end of the booking schedule: use points that can book farther out
(08:26) - Positioning flights
(20:59) - Programs that reserve more space for their own members
(22:22) - Programs that reserve more space for elite members/cardholders
(24:17) - Programs that allow more awards for more points
(26:47) - Married segment logic awards (e.g. san-lax-tyo available, but lax-tyo not available)
(35:07) - Consider programs that allow a stopover
(39:04) - Award tool Alerts
(41:44) - Paid flights
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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 | If you love award travel, but you've been finding it really difficult to find the awards that you'd like to book, |
| 0:17.1 | today's show is going to give you a whole bunch of tips about how to find those impossible awards frequent miler on the air starts now today's main event tips for finding |
| 0:28.3 | impossible awards i'm recording this from st louis i had a quick weekend trip to st louis |
| 0:36.4 | where i met up with some points in miles enthusiasts. |
| 0:40.3 | And the question on everybody's mind, it seemed like, was, hey, Greg, I'm trying to find a way to get to Vietnam or to get to Japan or to get to Europe or to get to wherever I'm not I'm not having any |
| 0:57.7 | luck finding savor award availability. What can I do? And so we'd end up having long conversations |
| 1:04.8 | about possibilities like, did you try this? Did you try that? Did you try the other thing? |
| 1:09.3 | And I realized that, you know, all of these |
| 1:12.5 | things that I was coming up with, while they were specifics for that person's situation, they all |
| 1:18.1 | fall into different areas of like approaches you can take to look for and find impossible awards. |
| 1:25.3 | And so for today's show, we're going to, you know, basically go over those techniques on a broader |
| 1:32.6 | level. |
| 1:34.2 | I will stress, though, that I, we are recording this well in advance of actually airing the show. |
| 1:43.5 | So we may mention things that, you know, as an |
| 1:47.0 | examples, specific things as examples, that might not be true by the time you listen to |
| 1:52.9 | this show. But I believe, I firmly believe that all the techniques we talk about will still be |
| 1:57.8 | true. But the specific examples we give of like, here's exactly how it might |
| 2:03.1 | unfold, might not be the case by the time you listen to this. Yeah, as you've heard us talk about |
| 2:09.1 | recently a few times, probably things change all the time. And so you have to be ready to adapt and |
| 2:13.6 | adjust. But I think that the travels that Greg and I and the rest of the Frequemiler team have proved that impossible awards aren't necessarily impossible if you go about things with some of the techniques that we're going to talk about today. If you want to jump ahead to something or you want to come back to it later, don't forget you'll always find the timestamps in the show notes and wherever you're watching or listening don't forget to give this a like a thumbs up leave us a comment or a review we always |
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