Why pay $400 or more for a credit card? | Ep171 | 10-15-22
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 15 October 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Why would anyone want to pay $400 or more for a credit card? This week, Greg and Nick discuss some of the cards on the market that *may* be worth it and which perks would need to matter to you to make them worth the price of admission.
00:46 Giant Mailbag: ANA's friendly change
4:55 What crazy thing....did Air Canada Aeroplan do this week?
9:51 Awards we booked this week: Greg's United award change to New Zealand and Nick's Marriott booking near Disneyland Paris
24:23 Why pay $400 or more for a credit card?
27:09 Capital One Venture X
33:45 Amex Platinum card
35:33 Amex Business Platinum
37:40 Chase Sapphire Reserve
39:41 US Bank Altitude Reserve
41:35 Amex Delta Reserve
43:28 United Club Infinite
46:10 American Airlines Executive Card
47:28 Chase Ritz-Carlton
50:00 Amex Bonvoy Brilliant
55:51 Amex Hilton Aspire card
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1:00:38 Question of the Week: What can you do for phone access abroad? (Testing Holafly)
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | 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. |
| 0:25.6 | Today's main event, why pay $400 or more for a credit card? |
| 0:30.6 | That seems like a lot, Greg. |
| 0:32.6 | There are reasons. |
| 0:33.6 | It does seem like a lot. |
| 0:34.6 | There are reasons, believe it or not, that you might want to pay $400 or more |
| 0:38.4 | but not all reasons are good reasons we're going to go over some of the best $400 and up cards |
| 0:45.2 | and talk about why you might want to pay that much and by default if those aren't reasons for you |
| 0:52.3 | that means you probably shouldn't be paying $400 or more for those cards. |
| 0:56.4 | First, of course, we have the giant mailbag. |
| 1:00.0 | Giant mail this week comes from Aiden. |
| 1:02.5 | Aidan says, I have an A&A Round the World Awards set for next year that I owe 100% to the information the Frequent Myler team puts out. |
| 1:12.6 | So I wanted to thank you first of all for all that you do. |
| 1:16.6 | Now for the interesting part. |
| 1:18.6 | One of my segments in the round the world trip was Cairo to Bangkok via Egypt Air, |
| 1:23.6 | and I got to notice this morning that it was canceled. |
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