A World-Class Wells Fargo Wallet | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep303 | 4-25-25

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Apr 26, 2025

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ADVICE

Getting 100K Sapphire Preferred Bonus

To qualify for the Chase Sapphire Preferred 100K offer, you must not have received a bonus on Sapphire cards in the past 48 months.
Product change to a Freedom card to keep your points and then apply for Sapphire to bypass current hold rules.

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Priority Pass Lounge New Fee

Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse lounge added a $35 Priority Pass entry fee on top of Priority Pass access.
This may signal a trend where other lounges add resort-style fees, threatening Priority Pass's value.

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Find More United Award Space

Change your United MileagePlus webpage settings to a different country to see more award availability on partner airlines.
This can help find hidden award space but results vary and some might be phantom availability.

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We tend to ignore Wells Fargo cards because there are so many other great credit cards out there, but they actually do have some compelling cards out there. In today's episode we'll discuss which ones you might want in your wallet.

(01:47) - Re: Clarifying our "Beyond 100K Sapphire Preferred" episode, which you can read more about here.

(19:33) - Bigger Capital One VentureX Business Card offer via private banker

Listen to the podcast episode about the public Capital One VentureX Business card offer here.

(22:49) - Citi decreasing redemption rates on emirates starting 7/27

(26:24) - Read more about the OneKey Cash devaluation for Vrbo stays here.

(29:10) - A top up fee for priority pass lounge access

(32:10) - Read more about the Japan Airlines devaluation here.

(35:26) - More Japan Airlines (JAL) news

Learn about how to Book JAL with JetBlue points here.

(39:29) - More Bilt news

(44:55) - Learn how to use Bilt to pay student loans with points here.

(46:24) - United MileagePlus Showing More Awards After Changing Settings

(49:51) - Wyndham Points + Cash reservations now bookable with as few as 750 points

(51:12) - Learn more about Gondola here: https://frequentmiler.com/gondola/

Main Event: A World-Class Wells Fargo Wallet

(57:04) - Transferable points

(59:27) - Notable Wells Fargo credit cards which have transfer abilities

(1:01:07) - Notable Wells Fargo cash back cards, which can be moved to a transferrable point card

(1:04:33) - Here's how you can build a world-class Wells Fargo wallet

(1:07:44) - Downsides (and fun hypotheticals)

(1:13:32) - See our current transfer bonuses resource here.

(1:16:22) - How many of your millions of miles come from sign up bonuses vs credit card spending, and where does most of your credit card spend come from?

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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder