Where to park your transferable points | Ep156 | 6-25-22
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Got to cancel your card but don't know what to do with your points? Here are your best options.
00:58 3 Cards, 3 Continents, 3 updates
17:31 Giant Mailbag: Comments from live stream draft audience https://frequentmiler.com/drafting-the-dream-results-who-got-which-cards/
21:32 What crazy thing . . . did the Curve credit card do this week?
26:05 Main Event: Where to park your transferable points https://frequentmiler.com/brex-it-what-to-do-with-100k-brex-points/
28:37 Air France / KLM Flying Blue
33:16 Emirates? No.
33:50 Cathay Pacific Asia Miles
37:26 Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer? No,
37:50 Virgin Atlantic
40:07 Avios (British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Qatar)
43:05 Air Canada Aeroplan
48:03 Avianca LifeMiles
54:12 Qantas? (nope)
54:26 Our favorites
58:22 Question of the Week: What's your favorite brand of luggage? How about your favorite piece of travel-related gear?
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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 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:23.6 | Today's main event, where to park your transferable points. |
| 0:31.6 | You know, Nick, we love our transferable points, but sometimes we've got to get rid of them. |
| 0:36.6 | Every now and then, even though we don't want to, but sometimes you have to. |
| 0:40.3 | Sometimes you have to, like whether you're closing a card, that's the only way to keep them alive, |
| 0:45.3 | or someone else closes your card for you. |
| 0:48.3 | There's just various reasons why you might have to get rid of your transferable points, |
| 0:52.3 | and then so you want to transfer them somewhere. |
| 0:55.1 | We're going to talk about where are good places to transfer them to where. If you got to part them somewhere, where should you park them? So it's important to pick the right spot, right? You got to pick the right spot. Okay. We'll get back to that. Okay. But first, go ahead. First, we're going to introduce a new temporary segment |
| 1:12.1 | called Three Cards, Three Contents, Three Updates. So, you know, we announced that we're doing this big |
| 1:22.5 | three card, three continent challenge starting in September is when we're going to |
| 1:26.2 | actually travel. But last night, as compared is when we're going to going to actually travel. |
| 1:28.1 | But last night, as compared to when we're recording this, we did the big draft where we each |
| 1:34.1 | picked three cards each. And those bonuses that go along with those cards are going to be our |
| 1:40.4 | budgets for traveling, making the most amazing trips we can with those three cards |
| 1:46.3 | to at least three continents, maybe more, we will see. |
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