Frequent Miler on the Air

Travel Hacker's Toolkit | Ep190 | 2-18-23

Feb 18, 2023

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Maximizing Annual Fee Refund on Credit Card Downgrade

00:31

Expert Witness and Cruise Deals

01:45

Avoiding cash advance fees and delayed tax returns

01:16

Efficiently Narrowing Down Flight Options

01:53

Introduction

3min

Can I Upgrade My Business Platinum or Business Gold?

2min

What Crazy Thing Did Capital One Do This Week?

4min

Is That a Rebate From Spend?

2min

What Crazy Thing Did Virgin Voyages Do This Week?

4min

Can You Transfer Virgin Atlantic Points?

2min

Hilton Points - Are They Worth Going For?

2min

The Business Hilton Card Is Not Business, but Business Platinum Is Business

3min

The Hilton Business Card Is a No Brainer

3min

10.

Travel Hackers Toolkit - The Tools We Use Most

2min

11.

Earning Points and Miles

5min

12.

How Travel Freely Can Help You With Credit Card Signups

2min

13.

Earning Points With a Ward Wallet

2min

14.

Is There a Cash Advance Fee for Paying Taxes?

3min

15.

MX Multi Referrals - A Great Tool for Earning Extra Points

2min

16.

How Do I Find Award Flights?

3min

17.

How to Find Great Business Class Deals With Google Flights

4min

18.

Is There a Calendar?

2min

19.

Point Me Saves Me Thousands of Miles

2min

20.

How to Find Premium Cabin Awards With Award Logic

3min

21.

How to Use Point Me for Free

2min

22.

How to Find First Class and Business Class Award Flights

3min

23.

Expert Flyer Is a Great Tool for Finding Awards

2min

24.

Is There a New Award Mapper App Coming Out?

2min

25.

Stay With Points

2min

26.

Car Rentals Are the Bane of My Existence

2min

27.

Car Rentals - Is Auto Slash the Way to Go?

2min

28.

Can I Use AAA Codes for Car Rentals?

2min

29.

Capital One Shopping - What's the Second Best Deal?

2min

30.

Cashback Monitor Is the Best Way to Get Targeted Deals

2min

31.

Travel Hacking Tools That Are Very Helpful

2min

32.

Is Point Me the One?

3min

33.

Checking in for Partner Booked Awards Through the Operating Carrier

2min

34.

Is There Any Advantage to Checking in Online?

3min

There are a lot of great tools for collecting and spending points and miles. This week, we talk about the ones we use most often to maximize our mileage.

00:00 Intro

00:45 Giant Mailbag: Tips from the comments on a fixing a failed attempt at a Platinum triple dip

https://frequentmiler.com/fixing-a-failed-platinum-triple-dip/

05:50 What crazy thing....double header!

05:58 What crazy thing . . . did Capital One do this week?

https://frequentmiler.com/capital-one-including-global-entry-reimbursement-on-1099s/

12:03 What crazy thin . . . did Virgin Voyages do this week?

https://frequentmiler.com/capital-one-including-global-entry-reimbursement-on-1099s/

17:23 Mattress running the numbers: New Hilton credit cards

https://frequentmiler.com/increased-hilton-card-offers/

25:48 Main Event: Travel Hacker's Toolkit

26:10 Managing Points: Award Wallet

29:39 Earning miles and points

29:45 Best Offers Page

https://frequentmiler.com/best-credit-card-sign-up-offers/

32:56 Travel Freely

https://frequentmiler.com/take-the-stress-out-of-credit-card-bonus-hunting-travel-freely/

35:23 Tools for meeting minimum spending requirements

35:41 Kiva

https://frequentmiler.com/why-i-love-kiva-for-earning-rewards-and-doing-good/

36:51 Paying taxes

https://frequentmiler.com/pay-taxes-via-credit-card/

https://frequentmiler.com/best-category-bonuses/

40:34 Referral bonuses

https://frequentmiler.com/maximizing-value-from-amex-multi-referrals/

42:10 spending points

42:22 Flight tools (First up: Flight Connections)

44:49 Google Flights and airline websites

https://frequentmiler.com/find-great-business-class-fares-google-flights/

50:28 Point.me and Award Logic

https://frequentmiler.com/point-me-vs-awardlogic/

58:00 Seats.Aero

https://frequentmiler.com/seats-aero/

1:01:17 Expert Flyer

1:03:30 Award Nights

1:04:38 Award Mapper

1:06:16 Stay with points

https://frequentmiler.com/staywithpoints-find-hard-to-get-hotel-awards/

1:08:56 Car Rentals

https://frequentmiler.com/shopping-for-car-rentals-comparison-results/

1:15 Google Maps, Google Flights, Google Hotels, Blog Reviews

1:20:54 Question of the Week: On a partner award, do you always check in with the operating carrier?

Music credit: Annie Yoder

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