Winning the Alaska x Hawaiian Airlines Merger | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep273 | 9-20-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 21 September 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Alaska has announced that their merger with Hawaiian Airlines is complete! So what are the details, and what does this mean for us? We'll discuss this in today's episode.
(01:36) - What's with the stupid virus pop-up on our website?
(03:40) - Greg's update on the Pacific Northwest Points Travel Festival and some of the folks he met
(09:04) - Read about 10-year old Walker's first place win at the USA Mullet Championship here!
(11:57) - Learn more about the next Points Travel Festival here.
(12:50) - Big offers from Delta, Amex Marriot, IHG and more...
Read more about the Delta card offers (up to 110K miles) here.
Read more about the Amex Marriott Bonvoy Business Card offer here.
Read more about the new IHG card offers here.
Read more about the Ink Business Unlimited 90K offer here.
(25:22) - Read "The Points Parade marches on thanks to a new round of targeted 250K offers" here.
(30:00) - Read more about Amex Uber credits here.
(31:39) - Read "Downgrade paths: How to keep your card but break up with your annual fee or find a better fit" here.
(33:14) - Read more about buying groups here.
(33:39) - Chase 50% transfer bonus to Marriott through 11/15.
Learn more about this transfer bonus here.
(37:15) - Rental car deals with Avis and National...
(42:42) - Citi Transfer bonuses through Oct 19
Learn more about Citi's 25% transfer bonus to Avianca here.
Learn more about Citi's 25% transfer bonus to Leading Hotels of the World here.
(44:28) - Hilton adds over 100 additional SLH properties
Read more about Hilton's 100 additional SLH properties here.
(46:59) - In case you missed it, you can find our "Debate: 30% Amex to Hilton Transfer Bonus. Should we do it?" Coffee Break Ep26 here.
(47:26) - Read more about the Alaska / Hawaaiin merger green light here.
(47:54) - Quick facts
(48:20) - Earn and redeem miles across both airlines (early 2025)
(48:31) - Single loyalty program coming (Details mid 2025)
(49:09) - Huaka'i by Hawaiian (for Hawaii residents)
(50:16) - Seamless miles transfer
(52:14) - We still have questions!
(57:39) - Listen to Podcast episode 269 about the Alaska / Hawaiian merger here.
(1:01:39) - What are the short term opportunities to consider?
(1:03:27) - Combine Alaska miles into one account for free!
(1:06:10) - Apply now for Hawaiian Airlines cards before its too late...orr wait for better last-gasp offers?
Learn more about the Hawaiian Airlines personal card here, and the Hawaiian Airlines business card here.
(1:25:43) - A reader used their Amex Platinum to pay for the tax on an award ticket, then got a charge for trip delay. Doesn't this card already have travel delay covered, though?
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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? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.4 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.9 | Today's main event, winning the Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines merger. |
| 0:32.0 | Alaska has announced that the merger is done. |
| 0:35.3 | It's a finished thing. |
| 0:40.7 | Now all that's left are the details, And in the details, we're going to see some opportunities, such as, you know, should we be signing up for |
| 0:46.3 | Hawaiian Airlines credit cards now before it's too late? Should we be transferring points? Should we |
| 0:51.0 | be moving to Hawaii? Those kind of things. And we're going to discuss that. |
| 0:55.4 | Give our answers to those questions in today's main event. Well, Greg's going to give his answers |
| 1:00.1 | anyway, because I'm still not sure what I'm going to do. I'm legitimately looking forward to this |
| 1:03.8 | discussion because I have some decisions to make and I want Greg's input as to what I should do. |
| 1:09.1 | And then I want people to chime in and tell me if he's |
| 1:11.5 | right or not before I make a bad decision. So we'll talk more about all of that later on today. |
| 1:17.6 | But first, don't forget, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So if you want to |
| 1:22.1 | jump ahead to a specific segment or return to something in the future, just expand the description box. |
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