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Earn Miles Without Flying:
You may be familiar with airline and hotel loyalty programs which seek to reward frequent travelers. But contrary to what you may assume, you can easily earn hundreds of thousands of points and miles without actually traveling to earn them. Then, you can use those miles and points for your own luxury travel.
Frequent Miler is all about getting the most out of the loyalty game. On this podcast, Greg (founder of Frequent Miler) and Nick (senior author at Frequent Miler) discuss and debate current topics and strategies in the points and miles world. Available on all major platforms, you can pick your favorite podcast streaming service below, or watch the episodes on YouTube.
How to gift free hotel nights | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep265 | 7-26-24
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Rumored Amex Gold Card Changes: Good or Bad? | Coffee Break Ep19 | 7-23-24
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Hot Hotel Card Offers | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep264 | 7-19-24
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Frequent Miler origin story - Carrie's story | Coffee Break Ep18 | 7-16-24
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Hilton delivers luxury through SLH | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep263 | 7-12-24
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How to get great value from you Platinum card | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep262 | 7-5-24
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Don’t take a siesta on Sonesta | Coffee Break Ep17 | 7-2-24
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Navigating Amex’s Welcome Bonus Family Rules | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep261 | 6-28-24
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Frequent Miler origin story: Nick’s story | Coffee Break Ep16 | 6-25-24
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Best ways to get to Hawaii | Ep260 | 6-22-24
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Podcast: How to gift free hotel nights | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep265...
Ever wanted to gift a free hotel night to someone else? In today's episode of Frequent Miler on the Air we'll discuss the ways you can do this!
Watch the full episode below, or listen...
Podcast: Rumored Amex Gold Card Changes: Good or Bad? | Coffee Break Ep19 |...
The Amex Gold Card is about to change. In this episode we'll review the current details for this card, the changes we predict to see, and whether those changes are good or bad.
Watch the...
Podcast: Hot Hotel Card Offers | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep264 | 7-19-24
There are a bunch of hotel credit card offers that are bigger than usual right now, some of them pretty surprising. That's what we'll discuss in this episode of Frequent Miler on the Air.
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Podcast: Frequent Miler origin story – Carrie’s story | Coffee Break Ep18 | 7-16-24
We've been gradually telling the "origin stories" of each team member in Frequent mIler. Today, we'll talk about how Carrie came to join Frequent Miler. You can find Greg's origin story here, and Nick's...
Podcast: Hilton delivers luxury through SLH | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep263 |...
Hilton has brought on their partner Small Luxury Hotels of the World which has been a bit more exciting than we expected it would be. In today's Frequent Miler on the Air episode we'll...
Hi my husband has lifetime platinum with Marriott. With that, we get free breakfast/lounge access and upgrades. What is the best card to get free nights and to supplement any platinum benefits? Thanks so much!
With the latest don’t siesta on Sonesta jargon, I wanted to add that the free version of FoundersCard provided by Clear (and other vendors) includes discounted Sonesta stays and automatic status with Sonesta.
New(ish) to the hobby and love the podcast. Just finished a remodel on our house and stocked up on roughly 1M AMEX points and 800k Chase points!!! It is time for next round of cards. My question is Nick because I am looking at the Wyndham Rewards Earner Business Card but want to know if the “How to turn a $95 card into 4 ocean cruises” still works before I apply for the card. Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
Can I use the Chase Ink Preferred Business (Visa) card for payment with Plastiq for my mortgage? The table in your site for Plastiq shows that “Visa” is one of the cards that you cannot pay for mortgage (only Mastercard and Discover). I’ve read in some blogs and TPG that the Ink Preferred business card is an example for paying mortgage with the use of Plastiq. I’m confuse. Could you explain this? Thank you.
I don’t think you can you it for paying mortgage. So, no, I can’t explain TPG
Hi, It has been over 4 months since JetBlue implemented this tile-to-mosaic system. Has anyone done the calculation to verify their current tile count? I have spent over $19000 on my JetBlue credit cards and over $2800 on JetBlue flights, and my current tile count is 16. If I understand the system correctly, it should have been 47 in total. Customer service told me over the phone that it would take four to six weeks for the number to appear accurately. Has anyone else seen that their tile count appears to be off?
Confirming your math: You should earn 1 tile with every $1,000 spent on your JetBlue credit card so I’d expect you to have 19 tiles from that and 28 tiles from JetBlue flights for a total of 47.
Sounds like they’re slow in awarding those tiles!
Hi, your discussion about how to get and use Avois points was absolutely enlightening. I’d say I’m a partial newbe; I’ve flown free to Borneo, with a 2 day layover in Singapore, Romania, Bahamas, and I’m completing a trip to Rwanda and Tanzania. I have United Mileage plus and American miles. Simple question, for this trip, I booked one way with United and for the return trip, I used AmEx points through their portal. I input my American Advantage frequent #, but since the booking I’ve signed up for Qatar privilege . Can I also put in my Qatar # or for Qatar miles? Can I switch?
You can switch if you want to, but you can’t have both numbers on one flight
Just listened to your podcast with a short segment on rental cars.
FYI, Orlando airport has a visitor toll pass that you can use for free. 10 minimum deposit, but then every toll you go it just subtracts from the 10$ or charges your credit card if more.
Then you just return it when you get back to the airport. Simple as that.
I am going to come up short for Platinum Medallion on Delta. Is it too late to add a Delta card for the 2500 MQDs as part of the Headstart program
No, it’s not too late. You can add a Delta card any time this year and you should get the headstart
Love your site and your podcast. I am dying to fly ANA business class to Japan. I have 400k United Miles, 200k Chase points and 100k Amex points and all are growing, with the biggest monthly growth being my united miles due to business travel. What would you suggest is my best option?
Hopefully someone has something helpful to share. I’ve had no luck. I searched a significant portion of the full year calendar for HNL-TYO on ANA site and couldn’t find a single business seat. Just endless “wait-list”, which is a feature that makes their search engine more a headache and something ANA should eliminate. I generally have been stunned how poor ANA availability is even for economy on their own metal and even find good dates the fees are prohibitive. Based on my experience with ANA availability combined with the lag in transfer time from Amex and 3 year expiration I would be super hesitant to transfer points to ANA.
It’s really hard to find ANA business class award availability and even harder to find it with their new business class product (I wouldn’t go out of my way to fly their old one). Seats.Aero is the best tool I know of for finding availability. I just looked at United through Seats.Aero’s explore feature and found a bunch of ANA biz class availability but all of it is within the next week or so. In other words, they seem to be opening up space very close to departure but not much otherwise.
The Bilt credit card allows you to pay dorm charges for a college student. We set up a 529 for our granddaughter and she is now a freshman at Washington University in St Louis. Her dorm fee per semester is $6594.00. Wash U charges 3% for credit cards. Sent a Bilt check to Wash U and had no problems with the transaction!
LOVE to hear some tips on dealing with the issue of businesses now adding a 3-4% charge to anyone using a credit card for payment. At first I thought it was limited, but now I’m seeing more and more! From my local pizza place to my (soon to be EX)- internet security company to even (can you believe this!?) the company that pumps out my septic tank!!
This bull-ony is making things very rough on the small time point collectors like me. I’ve miffed, annoyed and looking for guidance from the FM crew.
Would appreciate some wisdomly advice!! Thank you!
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Regarding the announcement that Southwest will soon have free Standby: Would you do a podcast teaching us about Standby and how to use it? I understand the concept, but have never done Standby, and always have wondered how it is done, literally, step by step.
My understanding is the easy way to find standard award availability across multiple dates is to look for max 120k then click and it should show standard room availability. Yes?
If I’m correct, you can add Hilton Moorea Lagoon to the list of NO free night certificate availability. As the lowest points looking at the full is the 270k. If wrong, I want to find how I can find availability!
The max depends on the property. Some go as high as 150k for standard room awards. Luckily Hilton shows on their award calendar which nights are standard awards: https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-find-the-hilton-flexible-date-calendar/
And see this post for how to find availability: https://frequentmiler.com/tools-for-finding-impossible-hotel-awards/
A list of NYC where you can attempt to use Marriott SNA would be very useful. The W Times Square is a property where SNA are eligible to be used. Thanks!
re:4/17/21 podcast; Amex Platinum
Do you have any information regarding Platinum Card updates re: business versions or Financial Services cards (Schwab, JP Morgan, etc…) I was thinking of going from the paid personal to the JP Morgan to get 2 for free without additional authorized user fee, so this summer might be the time to do so.
Always enjoy listening to the podcast!