Discarding our card collections | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep342 | 1-23-26

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In today’s episode, we’ll talk about a trick for getting great value with Delta miles, which has returned, how flying Emirates first with points has gotten harder, and the hard truth about how we have too many cards (and what to do about it).

Discarding our card collections

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

(01:52) – Using AAdvantage miles to book JetSmart and other tips for South America travel

Card News

(04:10) – Air France/KLM Flying Blue (read more about Air France KLM Flying Blue card here)

(15:38) – Capital One Venture Rewards: 75K + $250 travel after $4K spend

(18:35) – Bilt Cash details revealed (see the full list of Bilt Cash redemptions here)

Bonvoyed

(21:06) – Qantas Nerfs Emirates First Class Awards (read more about this here)

Awards, Points, and More

(23:34) – Delta trick lowering award prices by booking flights to/from Mexico, working once again

(25:20) – Alaska $99 Companion Fares can be used with the multi-city tool on the regular booking engine again (read more here)

(26:35) – American Airlines Awards flying Aer Lingus Now Available Online (read more here)

Main Event: Discarding our card collections

(28:14) – Find out which premium cards we think are keepers here

(31:41) – Greg’s thoughts about keeper cards

(35:25) – $795 Sapphire Reserve® Card Example (read more about our thoughts here)

(57:45) – $325 American Express® Gold Card example

(1:04:44) – $895 American Express Platinum Card® example

(1:14:58) – Cards Greg and Nick have discarded recently

Question of the Week

(1:14:58) – American Express® Gold Card with 4x dining vs Atmos™ Rewards Summit Visa Infinite® Card with 3x dining + status… which one is worth it?

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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder

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Caroline Yoder
Caroline Yoder
Carrie Yoder spent ~5 years as a digital nomad with her husband Drew managing their points and miles travel blog, "Travel Is Free". Now she uses the content management, digital media, and design skills she learned then with Frequent Miler.

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Ben

Nick, why did you product change your savor? Having a hard time thinking of a scenario where that makes sense.

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Lee

Indeed, they are simply “premium” travel cards.

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