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Today we'll talk about four different ways you can access Delta Sky Clubs. We'll share a hot reader tip about a complimentary stay at Atlantis in the Bahamas.

And we'll discuss an Air France-KLM flying blue

devaluation that hopefully doesn't hurt as much as it sounds. Frequent Miler on the air starts now.

Today's main event, your ticket to the Delta Sky Club. We're recording this show in January

2025 and starting February 1st, getting into Delta

Skyclubs with credit cards is going to change. You're going to be limited with platinum cards to 10

visits per year. With Delta Reserve cards, you're going to be limited to 15 visits per year.

So we're going to be covering in today's main event all of your options. What's the best way to get into the Delta Sky Club if that's where you want to be? Yeah, and if you've never been in a Delta Sky Club, I have to say, I rarely ever fly Delta, but the few times that I have, and I've access to Delta Sky Club domestically, I've been really impressed. They're far better than the domestic lounges or their competitors. So it's something that certainly is desirable if you're going to be flying Delta, a bunch, and we'll talk about ways to get in today. But don't forget, if you want to jump ahead to a specific segment, or you want to come back to something later on, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the description box to skip ahead or go back. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like the video or give us a review and a rating, a comment. We always appreciate hearing from you and we check out all of those. All right, Greg, drag out this week's giant mail bag. All right. Today's giant mail comes from Timo.

Now, he's going to talk about in his mailbag entry a perk of Amex Platinum consumer cards,

which is how you get $200 in fine hotels and resorts or the hotel collection each year.

So if you use your platinum card to prepay for hotel stay,

you get the, you get $200 back of that stay once per year. So I wanted to give that intro because

otherwise this won't make any sense. All right. So Timo says, it seems like a lot of people are

running into issues lately with using the $200 platinum credit for fine hotels and resorts.

For certain hotels, I found that specifically Hilton properties are affected. Amex doesn't let you

prepay the booking through their website anymore. Instead, Ammex will have the hotel charge you a deposit,

which does not trigger the credit. When you make the booking, it seems like the booking would be

prepaid, but then at checkout, a screen will let you know that it's a hotel deposit instead.

I just recently went through this issue in Vegas where the Palazzo will let you prepay, but not the

Waldorf Astoria. Luckily, I found a workaround for this. An Amex agent can make a booking for you and can

specifically tell them, you can specifically tell them to make it as a prepaid booking. I just successfully

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