Which is the best Amex transfer partner - Air Canada or ANA? | Ep163 | 8-13-22
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 13 August 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Our two favorite Amex transfer partners offer access to a wide array of awards that make for fascinating possibilities, whether great award chart values or flexible routing rules or a lot more. This week, we debate which is best from a wide range of angles.
00:51 Giant Mailbag: Watch out for "free" award cancellations 6:36 Mattress running the Numbers: 14K Wyndham points with a 3-night stay 12:07 Awards we booked this week 19:38 3 Cards, 3 Continents, 3 Updates 32:42 Main Event: Which is the best Amex transfer partner -- Air Canada Aeroplan or ANA? 34:48 Transfer time 39:28 Award Charts 44:58 One-way awards 49:24 Fuel surcharges 55:32 Partner airlines 1:01:32 Stopovers 1:04:30 Award space for their own members 1:06:32 Change fees 1:08:10 Mileage Expiry 1:12:19 Lap infant fees 1:20:23 Question of the Week: Is Plastiq ever worth it for the 2.85% fee? Join our email list: frequentmiler.com/subscribe Music credit: 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. |
| 0:10.8 | 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. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's main event, we're going to be debating who is the best Amex transfer partner, Air Canada, |
| 0:34.6 | or ANA. |
| 0:35.6 | Fitting, isn't it? |
| 0:36.6 | If you know what's been going on, if you've been following with our three cards, |
| 0:39.9 | three continents challenge, it's fitting that Greg and I would debate this. |
| 0:43.1 | It is, it is. |
| 0:44.7 | Nick has been betting heavily on his Air Canada exploits and I'm all in on A&A. |
| 0:51.7 | So we will get into the nitty gritty and be arguing in favor our favorite programs, I guess, |
| 0:59.1 | when it comes time for the main event. |
| 1:01.1 | But first, giant mailbag time. |
| 1:04.2 | Today's giant mail comes from Tony. |
| 1:08.1 | So we've talked before about how United allows free award cancellations as long as you cancel 30 or more days in advance of your flight. |
| 1:19.3 | And Tony emailed us and says, in case you were unaware of it, I thought I'd call attention to a new sleight of hand maneuver United is doing. |
| 1:29.3 | Instead of redepositing miles upon canceling an award trip, which is more than a month in advance, |
| 1:35.3 | it is creating a travel credit consisting of the miles which should have been redeposited, |
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