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Frequent Miler on the Air

Where to find hidden award flights | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep246 | 3-15-24

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9640 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode of Frequent Miler on the Air, we'll talk about different "hidden" opportunities to find great award availability when you otherwise strike out trying to find international lie-flat awards, for example.    (01:13) - Advantage shopping portal vs AAdvantageHotels...when do these bookings' miles post...check in date or purchase date? (Mailbag)   (05:36) - I noticed that you are not doing the mattress running the numbers segment - any particular reason? (Mailbag)   (08:00) - Amex Platinum consumer card is dropping SiriusXM from digital entertainment May 8 (Card Talk)   Learn more about this Amex Platinum change here: https://frequentmiler.com/siriusxm-to-be-removed-from-eligible-services-for-amex-digital-entertainment-credit/   (11:50) - The American Express Business Platinum card 250K offer is still available in a roundabout way. (Card Talk)   Read more about the steps for finding that offer here: https://frequentmiler.com/incredible-250k-welcome-offer-for-the-amex-business-platinum-targeted-link/   (16:14) - United triggers a flight as "supposed to be a paper ticket" upon check in... (Crazy Thing)   (22:33) - Hyatt will be losing SLH partnership on May 15 (Award Talk)   Learn more about the Hyatt/SLH partnership ending here: https://frequentmiler.com/hyatt-slh-partnership-ending-5-15-24-important-things-to-know/   (25:12) - New Alaska award chart slowly going live and expected to be complete by 3/31/24. (Award Talk)   Read more about the Alaska award chart slowly going live here: https://frequentmiler.com/huge-alaska-announces-unified-award-charts/   (29:14) - Bilt adds Alaska as a partner (Award Talk)   (30:00) - Bilt loses AA as a partner in June (Award Talk)   Read more about Bilt's loss of AA as a partner here: https://frequentmiler.com/bilt-losing-american-airlines-as-transfer-partner-in-june/   (35:09) - Ritz upgrade success (again!) (Award Talk)   (36:33) - Delta’s new companion certificates really work as advertised (Award Talk)   Read more about Delta's enhanced companion certificates here: https://frequentmiler.com/delta-companion-certificates/   (38:17) - Delta: update about extending elite status with MQM rollovers (Award Talk)   Read more about the last ever Delta MQM rollover here: https://frequentmiler.com/the-last-ever-delta-mqm-rollover/   (40:45) - Award search tool comparisons, including award discovery tools (Award Talk)   Read more about award exploration tools here: https://frequentmiler.com/a-new-breed-of-award-discovery-tools/   Main Event: Where to Find Hidden Award Flights   (45:17) - Opportunities to find great award availability when you otherwise strike out trying to book international lie-flat awards...   (46:20) - Aeroplan has better award space for Singapore Airlines than Singapore itself   (48:05) - JetBlue Mint, book with Qatar Avios   See our video about how to find and book JetBlue Mint flights to the Caribbean using Qatar Avios: https://frequentmiler.com/jetblue-mint-to-the-caribbean-for-26000-avios-where-and-how-to-find-it/   (50:12) - ITA booked with Virgin Atlantic miles (widely available as of the last time Nick looked...)   (52:04) - Hawaiian Air has very good award space to Asia   (54:00) - Emirates: Book lower class of service and upgrade with points at airport   (55:32) - Flying Blue: Don't trust the calendar   (57:57) - AA, Flying Blue: often get much better pricing by flying to/from smaller airports   (01:01:18) - Many airlines (Eva Air, Qatar, Etihad, Lufthansa, BA, Virgin, Turkish, etc) offer better award availability to their own members   (01:10:33) - Book good-enough refundable flights and wait until close-in to find great flights.   (01:14:04) - Sometimes cash (or pay with points) is best option   (01:19:39) - Read our post about how to find great deals with Google Flights: https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-find-incredible-flight-deals-with-google-flights/   (01:19:56) - We review a unique case study where verification details delayed a credit card so long that a new application was required...but in that time, the bonus increased... (Question of the week)  

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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.

0:10.8

Let's get into the giant mailbag.

0:13.6

What crazy thing did?

0:15.9

City this week.

0:17.5

It's time for mattress running the numbers.

0:19.9

Ready for the main event? The main event.

0:22.6

Frequent Liler on the air starts now.

0:26.6

Today's main event, where to find hidden award flights.

0:31.6

Sometimes you're looking for those award flights.

0:34.6

Maybe you want to fly international live flat with your family to Europe or Asia

0:39.4

somewhere and you just can't find anything. We're going to tell you where to look that you might

0:44.0

not have thought of because there are ways out there to get awards that are pretty well hidden.

0:50.7

Like a lot of people don't know about these opportunities. Yeah, for sure. And a lot of times, it of times it's just a matter of knowing where to look. You know, if you don't have a map, it's hard to find something. But hopefully today we'll give you at least a little bit of a map to find that hidden treasure. But before we do, remember that you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So if you want to find a specific section of the show, You can always scroll into those show notes and skip around or ahead or behind or go back to something later on. And wherever you're listening to this or watching the show, don't forget to like it. Give us a thumbs up. Leave us a comment, some feedback. We always appreciate all of those things. Let's drag out this week's giant mail bag. Yeah, today's giant mail.

1:27.9

We've got two pieces of giant mail.

1:29.9

First in is from Larry in NYC.

1:33.9

Hey, Larry, it's been a while.

1:36.1

Larry says, in last week's question of the week segment,

1:40.4

you discussed whether hotels booked via Advantage Hotels, which is A's booking platform

1:46.4

that gives miles and loyalty points, sometimes lots of them when you book hotels through that

1:51.7

platform, that you discuss whether hotels booked via Advantage Hotels would post on the purchase

1:59.6

date or the checkout date of the stay. You had both guessed that they would

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