On today’s episode, we’ll see how the 5x airline card saga continues, Nick will give us more reasons to use the Southwest app, we’ll hear some exciting news about Frontier, and we’ll dive deep into Hyatt’s devaluation.
12 things to know about Hyatt’s devaluation
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Giant Mailbag
(01:06) – More comments about our comments about there being “No airline cards offer 5x or more”
Crazy Thing: Chase
(03:41) – Points Boost is sometimes different between Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card & Sapphire Reserve for Business℠ Card
Bonvoyed
(07:22) – Lifemiles+ eliminates free cancellation benefit for new subscribers
Awards, Points, and More
(11:35) – Alaska Wallet funds can now be used for AS companion fares again
(12:20) – Rove adds Frontier as a transfer partner
Read more about Frontier being added as a Rove transfer partner here
(15:30) – Nick’s Southwest notes
Main Event: 12 things to know about Hyatt’s devaluation
(21:18) – Hyatt recently introduced new award charts. We dug into the numbers…
Read more about the changed value of Hyatt points here
(22:20) – 1. Median point value dropped ~10%
(23:10) – 2. Cherry-picked value dropped <10%
(24:34) – 3. It could have been much worse
(26:31) – 4. It will probably be much worse next year
(27:46) – 5. Points more valuable with certain brands
(30:37) – 6. Points less valuable with certain brands
(32:14) – 7. Points are less valuable at high end
(34:27) – 8. Points are more valuable at low end
(35:54) – 9. Many cities offer excellent value
(39:45) – 10. Singapore offers surprisingly poor value: 1.0
(40:47) – 11. Worst and best values barely budged
(41:52) – 12. Mr & Mrs Smith not as bad as we thought
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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One DP about Singapore Hyatts- we went through there in January, pre-devaluation, and I was seeing around 1.1 cents per point then, as well.
Chase seems like an untrustworthy and abusive spouse with a cardholder spouse clinging on in denial. Clinging on to 5x at office supply stores. When that disappears, what then? What will be the next rationalization?
Hyatt is no longer that rationalization. Now that Rakuten points transfer to Hyatt via Bilt. Alternatively, at 1.5cpp, Hyatt can be booked with Rove points *and* be loyalty eligible.
Caught in a bad romance.