At its core, Frequent Miler is a blog about the miles & points “game”. The game goes like this: we take advantage of marketing offers to earn huge numbers of miles & points. Next, we take advantage of “sweet spot” awards to get the most value from those miles & points. Repeat… Travel… Enjoy… See “The Games We Play” for more information.
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Readers Come First
Most points & miles blogs make their money from credit card affiliate links. If you click through one of these links and get approved for a credit card, the blog gets paid a commission. That’s true for Frequent Miler too. The difference is that we never display our affiliate links if we know of a better public offer. For example, it’s common for an affiliate link to lead to a 40,000 point bonus at the same time that a 50,000 point offer is available which doesn’t pay a commission. We only display the better offer. As a result, we believe that our credit card pages are the best on the internet.
Further, our posts are driven by our interests, not by a desire to “sell” credit cards. If we write that we love a credit card perk, it’s because we’re truly excited about it, not because we want you to sign up through our affiliate links. In fact, you’ll find just as many posts singing the praises of cards in which we don’t earn affiliate commissions as those we do. The same is true in reverse. If we don’t like a card we’ll tell you so even if it means losing commissions.
We Analyze The Heck Out Of Things
We’re known for our in-depth analyses of rewards cards, special offers, rewards programs, and much more. If you want to know whether a deal is worth doing and how to maximize value from it, this is the blog to read. We collect our best in-depth posts on our resource page here or select from the topics below.
We Have Fun
We love what we do. The content on this site exists because we write about topics we’re excited about. We love the game, and the excitement shows in our writing. For the last two years we’ve engaged in (ruthless) but friendly competitions to have a little fun and test out miles & points or travel concepts. Not only are the Frequent Miler challenges a ton of fun for us and our followers, but it can lead us to discover many, many great deals that we then share with followers. The most spectacular deal found during the 40K to Far Away challenge was the ability to fly from anywhere in the US to Hawaii for only 7,500 points! You can read more about the challenge and what we learned by clicking here. We plan to do similar challenges at least once a year, but maybe more often. Of course, our fun isn’t limited to an occasional challenge. Nick and Greg do a video and podcast each week (Frequent Miler on the Air) where we discuss the latest miles & points topics, argue about who’s right or wrong, and generally have a great time. Viewers and listeners regularly tell us how much they enjoy listening in. To subscribe, search for Frequent Miler on whatever podcast app you use, or subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking here: youtube.com/c/thefrequentmiler. We also enjoy meeting our readers! Once every two or three months we visit you. Visits usually involve a few presentations and plenty of opportunities to chat. We call this series “FM to Go“. Click here to read all about it.
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Award Tool Spotlight: Points Path | Coffee Break Ep85 | 1-6-26
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Deluxe Park Lane Suite at the London Hilton on Park Lane Room Tour
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2026 points forecast: coupony w/ a chance of acquisitions | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep339 | 1-2-26
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We hope Greg’s right about Hyatt award charts in 2026
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With two credit cards, you can get Delta silver status
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Shortcuts to Delta elite status in 2026 | Coffee Break Ep84 | 12-30-25
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We just dance when we can’t think of the right words to say…
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2025 Deal of the Year | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep338 | 12-26-25
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How Frequent Miler makes money | Coffee Break Ep83 | 12-23-25
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The 2025 Bonvoyed Awards | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep337 | 12-19-25
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Heads up! Because I solicit team feedback when answering questions on posts and pages like these, it may take some time for me to get to your questions. Thanks in advance for your patience! - Carrie
Can you guys please make your website have dark mode as well? My retinas are burning.
Diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of September and 7 biopsies later had my surgery in the beginning of December. The fall and winter are when I get a lot of traveling done and now I have not been able to. Unfortunately will lose status or be downgraded. I asked Delta for an extension given the circumstances, but they will not. I got discouraged and fairly tired to contact them all. Do you know of any programs that would take in consideration a new cancer diagnosis for at least a short postponement of status change? As an aside delta prides itself on their support of breast cancer patients, but I guess it doesn’t extend beyond donations on a flight.
Long time reader (lurker?) with a question. My wife and I are heading to Vienna for a vacation and will be staying at the Park Hyatt because everyone says it’s the best and we have Hyatt points. Awesome, right. However, I’m not a Globalist and am looking for a way to contact like-minded friends to see if anyone has a Guest of Honor certificate they may not be using and would like to gift. I’m leary of FlyerTalk or Reddit posts but maybe that’s the best place. I’m looking for your expert guidance.
If you decide to cancel your Chase Safire Reserve card due to the cost but at that point have negative rewards points does Chase charge you the value of the points to your account?
Likely not. I had a different card from them and when that card expired it had a negative balance of 22,000 points…. No charge and they didn’t charge my other cards. Good luck.
Any thoughts on pairing frontier airlines points match with the JetBlue 25 for 25? Would that then give you 450,000 frontier points if you complete the JetBlue challenge?
That might work, but there are a couple of important things to consider. One is that I’m not sure when you have to provide evidence of your mileage balances in other accounts. If you have to provide that before you earn the bonus points from the JetBlue challenge, that wouldn’t work.
An even more important consideration is that in order to get the miles match from Frontier, you have to earn that number of miles with Frontier in the next 12 months. If you have 450K JetBlue TrueBlue points, you’d therefore need to earn 450K Frontier miles in the next year which could be very challenging.
Ah gotcha, I guess I didn’t read the fine print on the frontier point match close enough! Thank you
I don’t know why you allow the crappy Norton site advisor scam pop up on your website. I have gotten it three times in the last week when browsing your site, now I’ve just blocked your frequent miler website from my Google feed.
We’re sorry about that. It’s definitely not what we want; it’s coming via the ad network rather than it being an ad that we want on the site, so we’re trying to get it prevented.
I’m interested to learn what tips you have to book suites for a family of four with two young kids (2 & 4). While I used to transfer Chase points to Hyatt for award stays, I have found that most Hyatt properties only offer junior suites, which doesn’t really work when the kids are asleep. I’ve found some SLH properties through Hilton that offer full suites or villas at 130k-180k/nt but it’s not exactly the best deal. What other programs should I be looking at? Should I consider booking paid stays and upgrading to a suite with points or vice versa?
This podcast episode may help give you some ideas! https://frequentmiler.com/podcast-tips-for-better-family-travel-frequent-miler-on-the-air-ep267-8-9-24/
I received my new Chase sapphire reserve business card and just called chase to downgrade my old sapphire preferred card to a non annual fee card.
I already have a 1.5X Chase unlimited, old 5X Chase freedom and 5X Chase flex. I was hoping to product change to another freedom flex to maximize my earnings. I was offered two options of Chase unlimited card, one is straight 1.5X, one is 5X rotating category. I asked again making sure it is Chase unlimited card and it earns UR points, not just cash. I never heard of Chase has the 5X unlimited card. But I happily accept the 5X unlimited product change
Anyone know about this card.
Is there a way to book Airbnb with points?
Wanted to send a thank you to Mr Pepper. I think he is the one who published how to upgrade to VIP status with Radisson Hotels. A bit of a convoluted process that he held our hand through. Just reaped the benefits of a max upgrade and free breakfast for 3 nights. I know Raddy is no longer in the US but Europe and Africa have done solid properties. Thanks!
That’s awesome, I’m glad you got some good value out of it. I’ve been hoping I’ll find a reason to stay at a Radisson to take the status for a test drive.
Does anyone know if $10k spend on old United Explorer will earn $100 TravelBank? It doesn’t show up in the list of benefits in my Chase account. Thanks
Just noticed that it’s on Nick’s post (had no idea that you could do this already). I just got an email that JetBlue partnered with IcelandAir! Unfortunately not through my local airport of ORD (for now), but I did find an example through New York. EWR-KEF looks to be 17k points for all flights (economy). That’s easily 2.5CPP! I’m going this fall, so I probably won’t be able to capitalize, but would love to hear a breakdown on the pod or coffee break.
You can ignore this. Got excited for nothing lol
Hello
I found your incredible and very informative site.
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Thanks to you
Can I please ask – can I pay you to book out tickets with reward seats for a special trip in 2026 with Virgin on Qatar (QSuites)
End of August – 2ppl
Business rewards – we are going on a cruise so dates a few days either side are pretty important.
Sydney to Barcelona
Rome to Sydney
Is this something that you do? Or could you or someone recommend a service please?
Loved reading your article on Seats.aero
Hi Frequent Milers, I’m kind of new to the points and miles game. I’m looking to book two JAL business flights to Japan using Alaska miles. Unfortunately, the seats are always booked when they become bookable on Alaska website. I noticed Cathay Pacific has access to those reward seats earlier than other partners. Is it possible to book those business seats with Cathay first, then cancel when it becomes bookable on Alaska, and book them through Alaska hoping those reward seats would show up? I might have to pay the cancellation fee, but saving a few hundreds charging fees and earning Alaska status miles might be worthy. Thank you!
That’s a great question. In many cases that will work, but not always. It’s a big risk. Instead, you could book with Cathay miles then set alerts with an award search tool for 2 more seats to come available through Alaska. There’s always a good chance that seats will appear within a few days of your flight. If that happens within the time when you can still cancel the Cathay booking, then you can book the flight through Alaska and cancel with Cathay.
Bonvoyed by Wyndham! I booked a stay with points in Kauai at a Wyndham timeshare but I could only get a standard room at the time for 15k points (13,500 actually as a card holder). A villa became available which is almost twice the size for the same points as both price as one bedrooms. I log into my account and the villa is not visible. I log into my wife’s account and there it is, just like the regular public view. I cancel my reservation and try to re-book but it still isn’t visible in my account. I change the search by a week and, when logged into my account, I can only see standard rooms but the rest of the world, including my wife, can book the villa for 15k. Two calls to the reservation line and nothing they could do. And “no”, I do not have enough in my wife’s account to book it.