Frequent Miler on the Air

How to Save Miles by Flying More | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep300 | 4-4-25


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There are some creative ways to use airline miles to fly further with less miles. In other words, you can see more and spend less. We'll talk about these fun tricks in today's episode.

(01:00) - The validity of Etihad Guest Miles will be extended by 18 months based on qualifying member flight activity. We thought this means you have to credit paid flights to Etihad to extend your miles...but is that true?

(04:20) - How do you handle domestic positioning flights?

See our "Tips for booking positioning flights" episode 253 here.

(09:30) - Amex targeted referral +5 points on travel & transit

(11:21) - Learn more about Amex multi-referrals here.

(11:27) - Amex Membership Rewards: You don’t need a credit card to transfer to some partners Read more about this here.

(15:10) - Chase: 80% transfer bonus to IHG through 4/30

(18:26) - Transfer bonuses

(21:14) - Updates to popular award tools

(22:56) - National Car Rental’s One Two Free Promo Returns

(27:43) - Virgin Atlantic jacks up Delta One surcharges departing Europe to more than $1,000 one-way

Read more about dumping fees when booking Delta One here.

(31:05) - Cautions about skiplagging / hidden city ticketing, etc...

(37:34) - Married Segment Logic

(42:23) - Start to End Distance Based/ Zone Based Award Pricing

(47:25) - Mixed cabin award pricing

(51:53) - Multi-partner awards

(52:57) - Read Nick's post about Air Canada's United devaluation relief with multi-partner awards here.

(58:59) - Creative routing

(1:04:40) - Should people wait to get the other Hawaiian Airlines credit card (if they have one of the personal Hawaaiin credit cards already)? (There are two different consumer Hawaiian Airlines cards - one with Bank of Hawaii and one by Barclays (though confusingly both are issued by Barclays)). 

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