Booking Flights with Points and All Things Award Travel with Tiffany Funk
All the Hacks with Chris Hutchins
Intro
This chapter delves into the complexities of booking award travel, highlighting smart strategies to optimize points and miles. The expert guest shares valuable insights and actionable tips to help listeners elevate their travel experiences through effective rewards usage.
#89: Award travel pro Tiffany Funk joins Chris to talk about booking flights with miles, the advantages of having travel flexibility, the ins and outs of transferring points, ways to put your points and miles to good use, and the best sites/tools for booking award travel.
Tiffany Funk (@tebfunk) is the co-founder and president of point.me, a one-stop tool for maximizing points and miles. She's also the Executive Director for the premium travel site One Mile at a Time. Having visited over 80 countries and written more than 300 travel blog posts, Tiffany is one of the world’s top experts on airline award travel and loves sharing her passion with travelers on frequent flyer programs, earning and redeeming miles, and maximizing points.
Full show notes at: https://allthehacks.com/award-travel-tiffany-funk
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Full Show Notes
(00:00) Introduction to Tiffany Funk
(01:31) Award Flights vs. Cash Back Redemption
(03:47) Guideline for Redeeming Points via Loyalty Programs vs. Credit Card Portals
(05:44) Determining Best Point Value
(09:12) Tips for Multiplying Tickets with Points
(15:18) Starting Point for Transferring Points
(20:46) Flexibility and Advantages of Flexible Points
(25:01) Optimal Timing for Booking a Trip
(26:55) Maximizing Flexibility for Points Usage
(27:58) Unique Benefits of Using Miles Over Money
(29:19) Advantages of Flexibility in Destinations and Dates
(33:30) Remarkable Trips with Enhanced Availability Using Points
(39:06) Using Points for Airlines vs. Hotels
(43:32) Tech's Impact on Points Usage and Future Expectations
(45:33) The Success Behind point.me
(51:09) Exploring point.me Functionality
(53:46) Saving on Initial point.me Membership
(55:04) Chris' Airline Search Tips
(56:08) Listener Suggestion: FlightsFrom.com
(58:12) Tiffany's Recommended Reward Travel Tools
(59:47) Understanding Married Segment Itineraries
(1:01:35) Estimating Trip Costs
(1:03:30) Strategies to Reach Mileage Goals
(1:06:26) Overcoming Points Combination Challenges
(1:11:59) Tiffany's Preferred Point Use
(1:13:11) Teaching Reward Booking Skills with point.me
(1:15:27) Tiffany’s Travel Recommendations
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