What are the best hotel keeper cards...and more | Ask Us Anything Ep64 | 1-31-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
(00:44) - Should Nick upgrade his Aviator card?
(04:12) - Would you advise to get United Club card and pay the annual fee with 30k points? Is it a good deal?
(06:03) -Just got my first Amex a BLUE BUSSINESS PLUS. how do I avoid pop up jail when I’m ready to apply to other Amex cards
(07:27) - Chase and Barclays have declined me due to too many credit checks. How do you work around this?
(09:38) - What are the best hotel keeper cards currently?
(14:32) - What is a reasonable cost to upgrade from economy to business on a transatlantic flight?
(16:36) - I have the Bonvoy Boundless, planning on getting the Brilliant, and then upgrading the Boundless to the Ritz-Carlton. What is the best timing for upgrading and applying to get all the free night certs?
(19:34) - Does it make sense to transfer Chase points to Marriott to top up free night certificates?
(22:06) - Would you hold off on getting American Airlines cards, given your prediction that a devaluation is coming soon?
(27:18) - This question is for everyone. If you could live anywhere in the U.S., or the world for that matter, based solely on travel hocking opportunities, where would you live?
(31:58)- What's your prediction on Wells Fargo transfer partners, there was a leak that WF autograph Journey is getting 5x on hotels, 4x on airlines, 3x on travel and dining with $95 annual fee
(33:19) - Is it worth spending $15K on your Hyatt card through Plastiq to get a free night certificate?
(34:29) - Will Chase not approve my SouthWest Performance Business card if I didn’t put any post-sign-up-bonus spend on my SouthWest Premier Business card I got a few months ago?
(35:09) - How do I keep my Delta Platinum status or get to Diamond this year
(36:30) - Has Bilt changed the game with their 150% transfer bonuses regarding the rule of thumb against doing speculative transfers?
(42:30) - What credit card would you recommended to maximize hotel award redemption for a family of five?
(45:59) - With all AMEX Platinums being part of the same family and can only get one sign up bonus for this family, are there any strategies or benefits to getting more than one AMEX Platinums (of any version)?
(48:43) - How is Greg dealing with Detroit Lion loss to the San Francisco 49ers? Which city has best airline and hotel redemption to Vegas?
(53:00)- I'd love to hear some hotel tips from things Stephen has learned from his 50 state road trip. I'm planning a month long road trip and would love tips on maximizing value of points
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.4 | This is not your usual frequent miler on the air episode. |
| 0:15.2 | This is our Ask Us Anything live session recorded and brought to you in podcast format. |
| 0:20.8 | Once a month month the frequent |
| 0:21.8 | miler team gets together live on YouTube to answer your questions ask us questions about |
| 0:26.7 | points miles credit cards airline and hotel loyalty programs we don't know what's coming next |
| 0:31.0 | and neither to you enjoy I like it this is our monthly live brought to you not live |
| 0:37.0 | on a podcast. |
| 0:40.9 | Welcome to Freaklemyler Ask Us Anything, our new podcast episode. |
| 0:45.3 | While Kerry's preparing to read us some questions from the audience, let's ask around here the team members, should Nick really upgrade his aviator card? |
| 0:59.2 | So Nick, about upgrading your, what, $95 card to a- |
| 1:05.0 | 99, I think, I think, $99-A-R-R-D card to the $199-9-A-Vator-R- Aviator Silver card. So I wrote a post about that because my wife and I both got the upgrade offers. We just opened our Aviator Red like three months ago, so I was surprised to see an upgrade offer already. The Aviator Silver, of course, is a card's invitation only. You can't apply for it. You have to product change to it from an Aviator Red card. |
| 1:28.5 | And it comes with a few additional benefits on top of the Aviator Red, free check bag for more people if you're traveling with a large group. |
| 1:35.7 | But really the key benefits are a $25 daily food and beverage credit. |
| 1:39.6 | So if you fly American every day, you can get $25 back every day for food and beverage online. |
| 1:44.5 | $50 Wi-Fi credit. |
| 1:45.9 | And when you do the $20,000 spend threshold, instead of getting a companion pass for one |
| 1:50.8 | person for $99 plus taxes, you get the commanding pass that allows you to bring two people |
| 1:55.0 | for $99 each plus the taxes. |
| 1:57.9 | And then at $20,000, $40,000 and $ 50,000 spend, you get an additional 5,000 loyalty points. |
| 2:04.3 | So I could upgrade. I've already done about $8,000 spend so far on the card. So another 12,000, |
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