Wells Fargo journeys forward | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep354 | 4-17-26
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast episode, we'll watch as Capital One ventures into business, we'll discuss the best of the best award search tools, and we'll talk about how Wells Fargo is on the upswing.
Giant Mailbag
(01:00) - Nate has a tip to add to our Free checked bags via credit cards podcast Ep353
Card News
(04:41) - Capital One Spark Miles rebranded to Venture Business
Learn more about the Capital One Spark Miles rebranding to Venture Business here
Crazy Thing: Choice Privileges
(09:42) - Choice doubled points to Air France/KLM Flying Blue
Read more about the Choice Privileges transfer bonus here
Bonvoyed: AA
(13:03) - AA bonvoys elite members flying basic economy
Read more about American Airlines doing away with basic economy for elite members here
Awards, Points, and More
(16:42) - We've updated our resource "Which award search tool is best?"
Find our "Which award search tool is best" resource here
(26:05) - Amex changes referral limits to 5 per year, per card
Read more about American Express' referral limit changes here
(29:01) - Wells Fargo adds new transfer partner: Wyndham 1 to 2
Read more about Wells Fargo's new transfer partner here
Main Event: Wells Fargo journeys forward
(31:13) - Wells Fargo Rewards was a 3rd tier transferable points program
(31:46) - That's starting to change...
(32:46) - Wells Fargo Rewards advantages
(34:09) - Transfer partners
(37:22) - Wells Fargo rewards credit cards
Learn more about the Wells Fargo Autograph Journey℠ Card here
Learn more about the Wells Fargo Autograph℠ Card here
(43:50) - Wells Fargo cash back cards
(54:45) - Weaknesses
Question of the Week
(58:07) - Nick wonders... if Greg had the capacity to spend towards one single elite status, which would it be?
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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. |
| 0:10.5 | On today's show, we discuss the best of the best award search tools. |
| 0:15.9 | Capital One ventures into business. |
| 0:19.0 | And Wells Fargo is on the upswing. Frequent Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:25.7 | Today's main event, Wells Fargo journeys forward. Wells Fargo has had a transferable points program |
| 0:32.9 | for a few years now, but it's always been kind of third rate, not many transfer partners, just |
| 0:39.5 | not much going on with it. But some recent events have made it more interesting than ever before. |
| 0:46.6 | And we're going to get into full details and what you could do with Wells Fargo credit cards |
| 0:50.9 | and transfer partners in today's main event. |
| 1:11.0 | And we'll get to that in a little bit. Remember, if you want to jump ahead to that or you want to come back to something later on, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the description box and wherever you're watching or listening. Don't forget to like the video if you're watching it or leave a review for the podcast. We love to hear from you. Thank you for that. Now let's drag out this week's giant mailback. Today's giant mail comes from Nate. |
| 1:16.3 | Nate wrote in reply to our recent episode about free check bags via credit cards. |
| 1:22.6 | So in particular, one of the things we talked about in that episode is that the United card requires |
| 1:30.1 | paying for your flight with the card in order to get free check bags unless you happen to |
| 1:37.2 | have picked up the card in the last 90 days and then it'll wave check bags. So Nate says, |
| 1:43.4 | just wanted to add that if you pay using a |
| 1:45.7 | United Travel Credit, you get the credit card free bag benefit. I have a United Business |
| 1:52.3 | card and it's old and cold, so I'm not within the 90 day period. So just to you sort of explain |
| 1:59.9 | that a little bit. So Nate's saying that he's paid for a flight, not with the United Credit card he has, but with United Travel Credit, and he's still got free check bags. |
| 2:12.6 | So that's really good to know. |
| 2:13.6 | He does, he has some extra stuff in here that I think is informative for other reasons. |
| 2:19.1 | He says, this is limited utility because you don't get any credit card protections when you |
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