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Question for the upcoming AMA: What is the most meaningful award redemption or trip with award redemption(s) you’ve had? For example, I saw a vlog from a points/miles influencer who did most of their honeymoon on points and miles. Or perhaps you booked a trip on points and met someone who had a very considerable impact on your life.
This year I had to make my personal tax payment with ACI Payments through Paypal (using a Business Platinum). Its been over a week now and still no signing bonus. Chat reps say Paypal payments dont count as eligible spend (I know these reps are wrong all the time, but just looking for recent datapoints if anyone’s done this to hit Amex SUB.
I’ve used tax payments to hit Amex signing bonuses without issue in the past (though haven’t used Paypal to do it until this year).
I’m guessing everything will work out fine in a few days, but FWIW I had 4 SUBs on Amex last year and none took this long to post (or to show as pending).
Did you make the payment using a temporary card number just after getting approved for the card? If so, that seems to be the common denominator when people haven’t earned the bonus after meeting the minimum spend, but that doesn’t always happen.
No, it was ~2 months after receiving the card.
That’s good news then. Provided the spend all happened within the first three months (or however long you had to meet the minimum spend requirement) you should be absolutely fine. There have been quite a few reports about points taking ages to post recently, so I imagine yours is caught up in that and that you’ll get them eventually.
Question for the AMA:
Most memorable/fun/noteworthy response you witnessed from someone who experience luxury travel (or stays) for the first time. Might be people YOU specifically helped getting that experience but not limited to this
Are these not posted on podcast form anymore?
Love you guys but the latest episode deserves a nomination for worst episode ever. Nice to see everyone together but answering questions after consuming whiskey is probably not a great idea. Greg in particular appeared to be three sheets to the wind. Not a good look.
Aw, I’m so sorry to hear you had that impression! Truth be told, during our annual conference, we always have a lot of brainstorming and project planning to cram into a very small amount of time with each other, so I’m certain what you’re actually witnessing there is the exhaustion catching up with us. Those are jam-packed days and while you do see us showing off the Hibiki from our recent annual challenge in the video, it’s the many hours of discussion you see on our faces. I can attest that all of us were sober, though perhaps quite tired.
Sober??? When asked what the team was drinking at the start of the episode Tim and Greg clearly said they were drinking alcohol and then the team proceeded to brag about how great the Hibiki was. Girrrrl please!!! LOL
Bob, it was a joke. Neither Greg nor I had had any alcohol and yes, the Hibiki was terrific…we and the folks with us had it two nights previously when we arrived.
I’m sorry you didn’t like the episode…I don’t blame you. We had a bad mike that we didn’t know about and all of us were exhausted. But Carrie’s not lying to you and we think much more of our audience and readers than to do events of any kind inebriated.
The first rule of law is denial. Respect!
Glad to see you’re steadfastly sticking to that rule!
What happened to this episode? Can’t find it on the site or YouTube.
I saw that Nick just posted his What’s In My Wallet – 2025 Edition, can the rest of the FM team also share what cards they are currently carrying?!?
You were talking about Turkish rec locs which come from Aeroplan award bookings. The Turkish one that you see on your receipt still doesn’t show up when you type it into the app or website. I called them and they can see the booking and that it is ticketed but they still can’t assign seats.
I just noticed that Aeroplan is not show most or any partner award flights. I checked some flights and most saver fares in United shows up at LifeMiles but not in Aeroplan. Any insight? Is calling the way to go now like VS and ANA? Thx in advance, Nate
When will you reactivate the full articles you used to send by email ? Annoying to have to click a link to get the actual content (and also was convient to be able to search something directly in my inbox)
For the cruising status match, is it typically one cruise on each cruisebline per lifetime, or can you request a cruise with each cruise line every year?
You’ve discussed an Aeroplan hack where you book the Flexible Award, then do a free change to the Standard Award when you’ve finalized your plans. Is this theory, or have you actually done it successfully? Can it be done entirely online? Is this cancelling, hoping it goes back into inventory, and immediately rebooking, or modifying an existing itinerary?
There’s more about it here https://frequentmiler.com/air-canada-aeroplan-reduce-award-price-by-switching-from-a-flexible-reward/
Thanks! My question for the team would be: Has anyone been able to do this online, or does it *require* a call? If the latter, has anyone done it without adding/changing a segment first like the article detailed?
I did this on my own–I did have to call in (at least I assumed i had to call). But it was no problem at all for them to upgrade the type of ticket and then cancel.
From the 9/6 show, what was the ‘ticket deal’ referenced around time 10:45?
I think it was a reselling deal with PFS for Travis Scott tickets.
Guys, where can I submit a question for the show? Just use the comments, or is there a form? Thanks in advance!
The best thing to do is to submit your question during the livestream.
Are you still on the other side of the world? Looks like someone may have forgotten to update the intro text….
Oops! Fixed that.