5 rewarding ways to book paid hotel stays | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep331 | 11-6-25

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In today’s episode of the Frequent Miler on the Air podcast, we’ll talk about the Bilt card 2.0 that’s coming, we’ll reveal a trick for finding Air France award availability, and talk about 5 ways to super-stack your hotel bookings.

5 rewarding ways to book paid hotel stays

Watch the full episode below, or listen on your favorite podcast platform. You can click the timestamps below to navigate directly to a specific part of the episode within YouTube. For a transcript of this episode, click “Watch on Youtube” on the video below, then click the “…more” link in the video description. This will expand full video details. Scrolling down past the timestamps and chapters, you’ll see a “Show Transcript” button. If you’re an Apple Podcast listener, you can touch and hold a podcast episode to reveal an option to view a transcript.

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Giant Mailbag

(01:08) – Air France Availability on JAL searching tip

Card News

(06:09) – Bilt card 2.0 (replaces current Bilt card)

(08:21) – Citi now allows product changing via online Chat

(09:53) – United debit card now live (Read more about the United debit card here)

Crazy Thing

(14:50) – Insane Capital One Shopping 70% back at TripAdvisor (airport transfers Bora Bora, lights viewing, considered a couple of $900 private boat tours with 70% back!).

Read more about this here.

Bonvoyed

(22:28) – Aeroplan is bringing back points expiration on 11/30/26

(23:43) – Problems combining Chase Ultimate Rewards points keep spreading

Read more about this here.

Awards, Points, and More

(28:28) – Rove Miles adds Lufthansa Miles & More as a transfer partner

(30:55) – Choice Privileges revamping rewards program in early 2026

Main Event: 5 rewarding ways to book paid hotel stays

(33:16) – Credit card portals + coupons

(35:05) – Capital One Shopping loop

(37:54) – Super Stack

(41:11) – Rove Miles

(45:17) – The Intercontinental Ambassador Weekend Trick

(50:51) – Read more about this here.

Question of the Week

(51:41) – When you have multiple Fine Hotels + Resorts® credits, can you book more than one room, and how?

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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder

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tim grable

If you book two FHR rooms (Hyatt) for the same night using two different cards in addition to the $100 credit and breakfast on each room, do you earn points on the second room?

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