Award Travel 101
Skymiles Devaluation & Managing Pre-Trip Chaos
What happens when you're too loyal to a program - are they loyal back? Angie and Joe discuss developments this week, bonuses they've earned, and prepping for travel.
Get Thrifty Traveler Premium deal/award alerts sent straight to your inbox. Use promo code "AT101" for $10 off your first year. Head to ThriftyTraveler.com for more details and check out their Google Flights guide. Again, you can find them at ThriftyTraveler.com/Premium
Post of the Week
Justin Walter had a post about EU261. We spoke about credit card travel protections (Episode 27), but EU261 is totally different.
News
- Several transfer bonuses:
- Point.me “Quicklook”
- Hyatt Elite status shortcut -
- Earn Hyatt Explorist
- Hyatt Globalist
- Hyatt Bonus Journeys
- Buy Frontier Elite 20k status
- 150K Venture X Business Miles Bonus
- Capital One changes how to use the $300 portal credit on VX
- Delta MASSIVE (program) devaluation
- Leads to a bigger discussion
- AA change to T&C
- Is Hyatt next?
TRIP UPDATES
- Angie - booked flights and hotels for P2 conference and visiting the kid, booked flights for our Spring meetup in San Antonio
- Joe - Anniversary / Father son trip
WHAT BONUSES DID WE GET?
- Angie - nothing
- Joe -
- Ink Preferred Welcome Offer - pending
- Citi AAdvantage Executive card arrived -
- 20K LP bonus. Plus bonus miles
- What Milestone should I choose?
- Alaska lounge access
Highlight Feature - Managing the Pre-trip chaos and what has to be done before heading out of town
- Angie:
- Make a list!
- update “in case of death file”
- Clean the house, laundry, get medicine refills
- Pre-pack (only for long trips)
- Girly maintenance stuff
- Pay all bills that aren’t on autopay (utilities)
- If P2 is going there’s a whole other list of things
Tip of the Week
Make sure you’re paying atten
Send us a text message to share your thoughts about this episode.
Where to Find Us
For questions, you can join us in the free 110,000+ member Award Travel 101 Community.
- To book time with our team, check out Award Travel 1-on-1.
- You can also email us at 101@award.travel
- Our next meetup is located in SEATTLE on AUGUST 16–18, 2024. For more details and to purchase tickets, visit "Out to SEA" on the award.travel website.
What happens when you're too loyal to a program - are they loyal back? Angie and Joe discuss developments this week, bonuses they've earned, and prepping for travel.
Get Thrifty Traveler Premium deal/award alerts sent straight to your inbox. Use promo code "AT101" for $10 off your first year. Head to ThriftyTraveler.com for more details and check out their Google Flights guide. Again, you can find them at ThriftyTraveler.com/Premium
Post of the Week
Justin Walter had a post about EU261. We spoke about credit card travel protections (Episode 27), but EU261 is totally different.
News
- Several transfer bonuses:
- Point.me “Quicklook”
- Hyatt Elite status shortcut -
- Earn Hyatt Explorist
- Hyatt Globalist
- Hyatt Bonus Journeys
- Buy Frontier Elite 20k status
- 150K Venture X Business Miles Bonus
- Capital One changes how to use the $300 portal credit on VX
- Delta MASSIVE (program) devaluation
- Leads to a bigger discussion
- AA change to T&C
- Is Hyatt next?
TRIP UPDATES
- Angie - booked flights and hotels for P2 conference and visiting the kid, booked flights for our Spring meetup in San Antonio
- Joe - Anniversary / Father son trip
WHAT BONUSES DID WE GET?
- Angie - nothing
- Joe -
- Ink Preferred Welcome Offer - pending
- Citi AAdvantage Executive card arrived -
- 20K LP bonus. Plus bonus miles
- What Milestone should I choose?
- Alaska lounge access
Highlight Feature - Managing the Pre-trip chaos and what has to be done before heading out of town
- Angie:
- Make a list!
- update “in case of death file”
- Clean the house, laundry, get medicine refills
- Pre-pack (only for long trips)
- Girly maintenance stuff
- Pay all bills that aren’t on autopay (utilities)
- If P2 is going there’s a whole other list of things
Tip of the Week
Make sure you’re paying atten
Send us a text message to share your thoughts about this episode.
Where to Find Us
For questions, you can join us in the free 110,000+ member Award Travel 101 Community.
- To book time with our team, check out Award Travel 1-on-1.
- You can also email us at 101@award.travel
- Our next meetup is located in SEATTLE on AUGUST 16–18, 2024. For more details and to purchase tickets, visit "Out to SEA" on the award.travel website.