Nearly everyone will agree that devaluation to loyalty programs (or just about anything else) sucks. And this week, sadly, there’s a lot of suckage to talk about. Air Canada downgraded their upgrade program, adding co-pays for many customers and making the certs harder to use in many scenarios. Delta has downgraded their award chart, jacking […]

      

No, really, we included a credit card link in the show notes today! Of course, ours is not an affiliate link and I actually don’t think it is the one you should use, but we’ll get to that in a minute… And now, on to the topics of discussion in this week’s episode: American Airlines […]

      

Gracias por escuchar el episodio de esta semana de PointsHoarder. This main focus this week is on a few different partnerships and how those relationships make things either good or bad for consumers. Usually it is good, but not always. First on that list, United has four different partnerships which came up in the past […]

      

It should come as no surprise that the lead story on this week’s episode is the lead aviation-related story in the news, the crash of Asiana 214 at SFO last Saturday. We don’t dwell too much on it, though there is some discussion of the event itself as well as the media responses to it. […]

      

So, how much are you spending on elite status these days? And does it matter if your travels are paid for by an expense account? With the announcement last week by United that they are joining Delta in tracking spend for elite status in 2015 the dollars involved have become a much more significant topic […]

      

Lots of “new” going on in this episode, which I suppose is a good thing. After all, if we were talking about old stuff it probably wouldn’t be quite as interesting. Much of the discussion was about two new partnership announcements made in recent weeks. The first is the deal between Hyatt and MGM’s Las […]

      

Does it actually count as breaking news if it happened 2 days ago and we’re just reporting it now? What if it probably isn’t all that important of a story anyways? What say ye, listeners? (And, yes, this should make a little more sense after you listen to this week’s episode.) We covered a number […]

      

Is it a birthday or an anniversary? I’m not so sure what the proper term is but either way the PointsHoarder podcast is celebrating one year of random banter and the occasionally useful discussion of points, miles and travel information. As part of the celebration we’re giving a present – a Northface recon backpack courtesy of […]

      

Welcome to episode 25 of the PointsHoarder podcast, where we will – once again – take you on a journey of random musings intermixed with vaguely useful information in the world of points and travel. This week’s episode includes some good news on a few fronts. American Airlines has announced their Elite Awards for 2013 […]

      

Two big bits of news in this weeks episode, though that doesn’t stop us from talking about a bunch of other things, too. Perhaps the most significant event was the landing of a Lion Air 737 short of the runway at Denpasar, Bali. The plane came to a rest in the ocean, on the rocks […]