Bright spots in the latest award. devaluations | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep245
Frequent Miler on the Air
English - March 08, 2024 22:29 - 1 hour - 88.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 381 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Leisure Aviation points creditcards miles travel Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Award program changes often sting, but remember that those storm clouds often have a silver lining. On this week's episode, we discuss the bright spots in the most recent hotel and airline program devaluations
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:01:45) Giant Mailbag triple-header!
See episode 244 for more details about Platinum cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDh7EUEsf2Y
(00:01:50) Schwab bonus with $10mil
(00:02:56) Schwab mortgage counts toward assets
(00:05:50) Don't forget Amex corporate cardholders get statement credits
(00:07:22) Card Talk: Wells Fargo is launching their transferable points program
https://frequentmiler.com/wells-fargo-launching-autograph-journey-visa-card-transferable-points-up-to-5x-earnings-more/
(00:19:33) What crazy thing . . . did Turkish Miles & Smiles do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/turkish-offers-an-award-sale-thats-very-turkish-miles-smiles-of-them/
(00:23:46) Award Talk
(00:23:47) American Airlines Award Sale: Seats for 5K each way
https://frequentmiler.com/american-airlines-award-sale-500k-seats-for-5k-miles-with-great-availability/
(00:27:59) Rio Las Vegas joins World of Hyatt
https://frequentmiler.com/world-of-hyatt-benefits-at-rio-las-vegas-your-questions-answered/
(00:30:20) Main Event: Bright spots in the latest award devaluations
(00:30:48) Hyatt devaluation
https://frequentmiler.com/ouch-hyatts-2024-devaluation-has-been-announced-its-not-pretty/
(00:41:07) Wyndham Vacasa devaluation
https://frequentmiler.com/wyndham-vacasa/
(00:47:14) Etihad devaluation
(00:53:46) ANA devaluation
https://frequentmiler.com/the-ana-devaluation-its-not-all-doom-and-gloom/
(01:02:10) Turkish devaluation
https://frequentmiler.com/turkish-might-be-demolishing-its-award-chart/
(01:10:09) Question of the Week: If you book a hotel through the AAdvantage shopping portal, will the miles be dated based on the booking date or the checkout date?
Music credit: Annie Yoder