What are the best miles and points deals we’ve seen in 2024, and which deals came out above the rest? In today’s episode of Frequent Miler on the Air, we’ll decide what we think the best miles and points deal of 2024 was.
Main Event: Deal of the Year 2024
Mailbag
(01:05) – Feedback about Greg’s “Frequent Miler’s 2024 State of the Business Report”
Read Greg’s “Frequent Miler’s 2024 State of the Business Report” here.
(08:12) – Additional datapoints regarding possible Atlantis stays for after February 1st
Mattress Running the Numbers
(12:14) – Greg’s Marriott Mattress Run
Awards, Points, and More
(20:48) – Capital One Offers
(26:18) – Easily extend National Free Day
Main Event: Deal of the Year 2024
(28:41) – Catch our “Bonvoyed of the Year” episode from last week to see which loyalty snafus we thought were the worst in 2024.
(29:11) – Buy Aeroplan miles for 1.14cpp: Read more about buying Aeroplan miles here.
(30:41) – Big payouts via Capital One Shopping
(36:35) – Virgin goes dynamic & lowers surcharges
Read more about Virgin’s dynamic pricing here.
(40:00) – Bilt transfer bonus up to 150% to Flying Blue, Virgin Points, and IHG One Rewards (Jan 1)
(42:19) – Bilt transfer bonus up to 100% to Alaska (July 1)
(44:05) – Amex +10x restaurants referral offer
Read more about this Amex referral offer here.
(47:11) – 120K Ink Business Preferred offer + 40K referral
(48:27) – Hilton SLH
(53:20) – Alaska’s awesome shorthaul AA pricing
Read more about the Alaksa award chart winners and losers here.
(57:41) – SAS Eurobonus Millionaire
Read more about the SAS Eurobonus Millionaire challenge here: https://frequentmiler.com/sas-eurobonus-millionaire-promo-frequently-asked-questions-million-mile-madness-2024/
(1:00:02) – Which did we actually take advantage of? (Or which didn’t we?)
(1:01:59) – So…which was the best?
(1:11:10) – Read more about this story here: https://loyaltytraveler.boardingarea.com/2015/05/25/frequent-flyer-history-latinpass-million-miles-mileage-runs-that-bankrupted-a-company/
Question of the Week
(1:13:17) – Can you swap a cash seat you’ve already purchased with Southwest with a companion seat with your companion pass instead?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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Pepper was easily the deal of the year, though only really for gc resellers.
My vote would be the perfect storm of the 20% bonus of AMEX MR points to Hawaiian Airlines miles, then the ability to move HA miles between HA accounts with the HA CC, and then the ability to convert HA miles into AS miles. I have converted about 800K MR points to AS miles.
I have always logged in to Capital One Shopping using my C1 login and see basically all of the top tier offers written about here plus more. What does matter for me is having the browser extension active. The only time things have gone badly for me is when the browser extension was not working and needed to be repaired.
I think I would’ve voted for the Alaska-AA pricing, just because it’s so useful and easy to use.
I’ve signed into Capital One Shopping with my Capital One account and gotten some good email offers. For examples, just in the last couple of days 35% at Columbia, 30% at Ulta, 20% at Walmart, and 20% at Hoka. It seems to help if I search for a site on the shopping portal, click through, and don’t buy anything. Sometimes within the next few days I’ll get a good offer on the same site.
This time you remembered bilt transfers to Alaska. Around the 56:05 mark. Good job! Greg’s memory is improving!