FAMILIES FLY FREE Private Podcast

Join Amylee Udell, aka the "Productive Mama," to learn about using digital planners to plan, organize, prepare for and then take on your trip. She shares new tools and strategies and answers questions about how to improve your own systems. She takes you on quick tours of a few popular organizers so you can choose the right one for you and get started right away. 

Resources:

• ProductiveMama.com (Amylee's Site)
  www.wanderlog.com
• www.planapple.com
• The Reason I Finally Abandoned My Paper Planner article and review of Artful Agenda
• Amylee's affiliate link for Artful Agenda
• https://band.us/
• https://getupnote.com/
• https://trello.com/
• https://asana.com (what the Families Fly Free team uses)

These days Uber and Lyft have become an essential part of travel to get where you need to go. In this webinar, Lyn explores how to find the best deals on these platforms and how to earn MAXIMUM points when booking them.

LINKS:

• Delta/Uber Waitlist
• Lyft/Chase Partnership 
• CLEAR/Uber Current Offer

Lyn offers her strategy for getting the most out of your Southwest Companion Pass so you can take as many people as possible on the greatest number of flights.

In this month's live Q&A, we discussed...

• The December New Member Drive
• Families Fly Free ELITE 
• If you can select your seat and upgrade when you book a flight in the Chase or Capital One Travel Portal
• Can you use the $300 Capital One Venture X travel credit and then cancel the card without paying the annual fee?
• Are there airports to fly to/through or flights to choose that are more likely to have changes occur so that I can use the "hack"?
• I am my husband’s companion for 4 trips we have booked in January, March, June and July. Now my husband wants to take our college son on spring break and have him as his companion for another trip in early March. As I understand it, the future trips the two of us have planned for summer will be affected if our son is switched to be his companion on March. What is the best way to do this?
• If you have a delay on a Southwest flight if it take 3 hours or more to deal with that delay, are you entitled to a LUV voucher?
• I've checked for flights on the past 2-3 release dates and seen nothing that looked like a deal. The reason seems to be that it's so far out that it's just the regular fare. I've checked multiple cities. Have their been deals and just not for places I was interested in?
• When requesting a LUV voucher for a 3+ hour delay, does each person who flew have to have a rapid rewards number? Is there an email script for this type of request?
• If you get over to Europe for cheap, then what airline did you use to get to your final destination? Did you use Ryanair? If so, do they nickel and dime you for everything like bags, seats, etc.?
• And more!

Check out this call with ELITE members from September 2024 to get a sense of what it's like to be a part of this amazing group and the fantastic tips and tricks we come up with together and that you'll be able to access!

Upgrade to Elite here: https://www.familiesflyfree.com/elite2025

Take a "virtual" river cruise down the Danube River to see Christmas markets in Vienna, Budapest and more filled with lights, decor and goodies with Cathy Branch Stebbins as she guides through each town and what there is to see. She also shares some tips for the cruise and what to pack.

Resources:

WEBINAR: How to Use Miles/Points to Fly to Europe

WEBINAR: How 3 Families Used Miles & Points to Fly to Europe

Viking River Cruises

Belvedere Museum

LL Bean Fleece Leggings

Dansko Walking Shoes

Lyn shares her personal strategy to book flights to London from New York City (she'll position her family there on Southwest) using Google Flights, Capital One miles and Chase Ultimate Rewards points. She explains what she checked and why she picked Delta/Virgin Atlantic.