Award Booking Stories | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep305 | 5-9-25
Episode Date: May 9, 2025In today's episode, we'll talk about how The Standard is coming to Hyatt...(but we're too old for it). Nick will enlighten Greg about the fact that Ai...
Earn miles without flying. Frequent Miler is all about getting the most out of the loyalty game. You can easily earn hundreds of thousands of points and miles without traveling, then learn how to use those points towards luxury travel. In this podcast, Frequent Miler founder Greg, and senior author Nick debate current topics in the points & miles world.
381 episodes transcribedIn today's episode, we'll talk about how The Standard is coming to Hyatt...(but we're too old for it). Nick will enlighten Greg about the fact that Ai...
In today's episode, we'll talk about why we like the Rakuten shopping portal and also discuss a great new trick Rakuten has up its sleeve...(00:42) -...
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The Capital One Venture X Business card is out with a massive welcome bonus of 750K points...but the devil is in the details. Is this card really wort...
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On a recent podcast episode, we talked about all the important considerations when you're just getting start in the points and miles game. But in this...
In this episode, we highlight the credit cards that are becoming "collectables", we had a heated debate about "Strawberry season", discuss changes fro...
How can you find rooms for 4 in Scotland? Is Bilt worth it if your rent's only $1500? We answered these questions and more on the Ask Us Anything host...
There are some creative ways to use airline miles to fly further with less miles. In other words, you can see more and spend less. We'll talk about th...
There's been a trend where credit card issuers increase annual fees on rewards cards, and attempt to make up for it by adding credits and rebates for...
A few years ago American Express introduced this kind of model for their Platinum card where they increased their annual fee, but attempted to make up...
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Winning the game doesn't have to be hard. Points & miles is like complicated board game -- seems overwhelming at first. But the rewards for winning ar...
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Bilt Rewards is a program that became famous for giving you rewards for your rent payments, but these days there are many ways to earn Bilt rewards. I...
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Starting May 28 of this year, Southwest will be making some major changes to the things we've known and loved. For example Most people will be losing...
In today's episode we'll talk about how American Airlines out-crazies Citi, Southwest out-bonvoys Marriott, and we'll talk about what we think are the...