Will the points game survive? | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep359 | 5-22-26
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
As more and more people get into the points & miles game, we're seeing an acceleration of devaluations. Opportunities to earn points disappear. Point prices go up. Transfer ratios go down. Is this the beginning of the end?
Will the points game survive?
Giant Mailbag
(00:46) - Gil has a warning story about being Bonvoyed by Bonvoy... Boundless
Main Event: Will the points game survive?
(06:28) - Devaluations keep hitting
(14:14) - Positive trends that we're seeing at the time of this recording (May 1 2026).
(15:15) - Doing this for 15 years
(17:37) - Enjoying elite status
(21:10) - Earning points getting easier
(27:54) - New opportunities to earn transferable points keep appearing
(29:00) - Point transfer opportunities are often increasing
(30:26) - Using points sometimes improves
(31:28) - Airlines
(38:37) - Hotels
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by 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. |
| 0:11.2 | Today's main event, will the points game survive? |
| 0:15.3 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:19.7 | As more and more people get into the Points in miles game, we're seeing an acceleration |
| 0:25.1 | of devaluations. |
| 0:27.6 | Opportunities to earn points disappear. |
| 0:30.1 | Point prices go up. |
| 0:32.0 | Transfer ratios go down. |
| 0:34.2 | Is this the beginning of the end? |
| 0:36.2 | Yes, we'll talk about that in a few minutes. And remember, |
| 0:39.2 | if you want to find the timestamps, so you can jump ahead to that or you want to come back to |
| 0:42.3 | something later on, just expand the description box to find the show notes with those |
| 0:47.6 | timestamps and links to more information about everything we're talking about. Wherever you're |
| 0:51.6 | watching or listening, don't forget to like this. Give it a thumbs up. |
| 0:54.9 | Leave us your feedback. |
| 0:56.0 | We always appreciate hearing from you. |
| 0:57.9 | Speaking of hearing from you, let's drag out this week's giant mailback. |
| 1:01.6 | All right. |
| 1:02.3 | Today's giant mail comes from Gill. |
| 1:04.7 | Gill was bonvoid by bonvoy boundless. |
| 1:08.6 | Here's what Gil has to say. |
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