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Frequent Miler on the Air

Transfer bonuses galore: Why so many and which are best? | Ep114 | 9-4-21

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

00:27 Giant Mailbag: Is the Hilton Surpass the better choice for Hilton Diamond status in 2021?   3:10 Mattress Running the Numbers: If you're spending for a Hilton free night certificate in 2021, should you finish off the spend for Diamond status?   10:14 What crazy thing...did Citi do this week?   13:55 Main Event: A deluge of transfer bonuses   https://frequentmiler.com/wow-12x-membership-rewards-transfer-bonuses-aeroplan-avios-virgin-atlantic-more/   https://frequentmiler.com/stacking-lifemiles-bonuses-new-domestic-theory/   https://frequentmiler.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-transfer-points-to-airline-and-hotel-programs/   43:01 Post Roast: Is the Capital One transfer bonus to Air France a poor deal?   https://frequentmiler.com/20-transfer-bonus-to-flying-blue-from-capital-one/   48:17 Question of the Week: What are you excited about in September?   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6iMWd2BlXM&t=561s   Subscribe to our email list: https://frequentmiler.com/subscribe/   Thanks for watching or listening!   Music credit: 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 voyescape.com.

0:12.2

Frequent Myler on the air starts now. Today's main event, a deluge of transfer bonuses.

0:23.9

You can call it a flood, an avalanche, a tsunami, whatever you want to call it.

0:29.1

There are tons of transfer bonuses right now.

0:32.5

We'll get into it for our main event.

0:35.5

But first, we've got the giant mailbag, of course.

0:39.8

Today's giant mail comes from, I want to pronounce it, lag 11 via YouTube comments.

0:49.1

And lag 11 says, I know Hilton Aspire is a great card, but this year there's still a great opportunity

0:56.6

for Hilton Diamond status with the Hilton surpass card.

1:00.1

You need to hit 60,000 points, normally 120,000 to get diamond status, that is, can easily

1:08.9

reach that with 15K to 20K of everyday spend,

1:13.6

because the card earns 3x everywhere and has category bonuses to get you better than that.

1:20.4

And you also get a free night certificate along the way.

1:23.8

If you could pair that with a new card bonus, it's a great opportunity.

1:28.2

So that's from lag 11.

1:29.5

This was in response to our conversation about ways to get elite status and we didn't

1:35.6

really touch on other ways of getting it from Hilton besides the Hilton aspire card.

1:40.6

So that's another way.

1:42.6

And I thought that was particularly good feedback today because it's, that's another way. And, and I thought that was, uh,

1:44.7

particularly good feedback today because it's going to come up again that exact topic when

1:49.9

we get to matches running the numbers. Yeah. But I mean, I, but it's,

1:54.2

it's definitely an interesting path because it's, it's a much cheaper path, potentially than

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