In today’s episode, we’ll talk about how Wells Fargo shut down Greg’s checking account, we’ll ask “Did Marriott devalue again?”, and we’ll look at the many ways to turn hotel status into airline status.
Turn hotel status into airline status
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Giant Mailbag
(01:12) – Rick shares a note about Bilt Cash at Walgreens
Card News
(04:25) – Chase Freedom Flex® dropping foreign transaction fees, but also losing cell protection
Crazy Thing
(06:22) – Capital One Shopping: 95% back at Instacart (new members)
Awards, Points, and More
(12:05) – Rove adds Qantas
Read more about Rove adding Qantas as a transfer partner here
(13:30) – Choice points on sale through July 20
(14:21) – Greg’s Wells Fargo shutdown
Learn more about Greg’s Wells Fargo shutdown here
(24:58) – Nick’s Sapphire Reserve® Exclusive Tables Blunders
(31:07) – FHR Las Vegas observances
(35:10) – Marriott devaluation… or not?
Read Stephen’s thoughts about the supposed devaluation here
(37:43) – How to apply Marriott free night certs to upgraded rooms
Learn more about this here
Main Event: Turn hotel status into airline status
(42:29) – First up: New Airline + Hotel partnerships
(42:58) – Read more about the Hyatt / Aeroplan partnership here
(53:00) – Read more about Marriott and Japan Airlines here: https://frequentmiler.com/marriott-japan-airlines-launch-deeper-partnership-earn-bonus-points-get-status-match-earn-status-points-more/
(1:01:00) – Key hotel/airline match-ups (and other hotel/airline tie-ups)…
(1:16:35) – Special topic: Airline hotel portals
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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Regarding using 25K Aeroplan miles for a Hyatt Cat 1-4 cert or 75K Aeroplan miles for a Hyatt 1-7 … what about in the context of a transfer bonus?
If BILT ever has another 100% AP transfer bonus, that’s 12.5K Bilt for Cat 4 or 37.5K Bilt for a Cat 7 … doesn’t seem too bad in the right case.
Not that the big banks ever accidentally post benefits on there website before they’re active but . . . DoC is reporting that Citi prematurely listed JAL as a transfer partner on its website.