Ever wonder how to leverage points, miles, and credit card benefits to enhance your family travel? This week on Frequent Miler on the Air, Greg and Nick discuss strategies and share tips to help you find great awards and make the most of the things that matter for your family vacations.
We talked about the genius of AA Loyalty Points, how to make sure you are eligible for the best offers, the chance to go wild with Frontier, and more. Listen or read on for more from this week.
1:306:06 What crazy thing…….did Frontier do this week?12:44 Awards we booked this week18:51 Points for family travel
19:2524:31 Award availability for families
28:18 Flexible stopover
32:3039:0342:00 Lodging – Vacation rentals (Vacasa)47:4251:27 Hyatt suite awards
54:0057:381:02:251:03:46 Rental Cars (National Executive)1:05:121:08:371:11:57 Question of the Week
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Greg wrote a post this week asking for suggestions about what to do for the next Frequent miler team challenge. Many readers find family travel challenging and would like to see us do a challenge with multiple travelers. I wrote this post because I was inspired by that. On the same day, I booked four of us in business class to Europe for less than 50K miles each and back from Europe to the US for 25.5K miles per passenger. I don't know what we're going to do in Belgium, but I'm looking forward to finding out.
We have a long history of challenges where we try to push the boundaries of miles and points in order to find new sweet spots or highlight how we have pushed existing ones to the max. We have an eye toward designing the next one, but we want reader input. We incorporated many reader suggestions in the 3 cards challenge and I expect we will do it again, so please leave your feedback and ideas here. When the time is right to design the next challenge, we will revisit the comments.
I don't usually include credit card bonus quick deals in the week in review post, but I thought they were worth a special highlight. These offers should be on your mind if you have a business.
If you want to be in on any of the Chase offers, you need to be under the age of 24. That means what? How do you decide on your Chase status? The post has everything you need to be successful.
Are you a fan of flying Frontier airlines? Are you the kind of person who can't keep your curiosity to yourself? Signing up for Frontier Miles, the loyalty program of low-cost carrier Frontier, will allow you to see what happens with their Go Wild! pass. Frontier plans to sell a limited number of all-you-can-fly passes that are good for a year, with more strings attached than a store filled with tennis rackets. From the carefully-worded hints, it seems like this thing is going to have a lot of restrictions. If they put it on sale, make sure you read the fine print.
If you have a Wyndham credit card that grants Diamond status, you may have already matched that status to Caesars Diamond and then matched it to Carnival for a free cruise offer. If you did that, the next step is on: match that offer to Royal Caribbean for a free balcony room on a cruise of up to 5 nights, and if the stars align and your match comes through very quickly, you might be able to stack with the current " kids sail free"
I agree with Greg and think that the change to Loyalty Points was brilliant for American Airlines. Many people will never collect on the benefits of status because they spend more through their portal and offer only to earn status. Those who need to fly are more likely to do so. Those who have earned X number of miles through all of these activities are more likely to become addicted to their AA miles, which opens the door for them to get more credit card sign ups. It was brilliant all the time.
You will be happy to know that you can use them on British Airways if you earn high level American Airlines elite status. I flew from New York to London with British Airways and it was a lot nicer than I had expected. If all other airlines had the same upgrade, I would use it on British Airways.
It is now officially Companion Pass Season, which means that now is the time to start thinking about getting Southwest credit cards if you want to earn a Companion Pass for 2023 and 2024, just make sure you wait to meet the spending requirements until January 2023 so that you earn all of the bonus miles The guide has everything you need to know about the deal.
We had previously missed some of the video footage of Stephen in Singapore, but now we have it. He made the most of his short time there to do some sightseeing and enjoy some awesome things you may not have seen in the Singapore Airport if you've been stuck in.
For this week, that is the last thing you will see. This week is the last chance to get a deal.
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