Award Travel 101
Strategies for Building Healthy Credit and Better Offers
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. Recent finds include:
- Business Class to Europe for 55K points
- Premium Economy to Singapore for $1,249 R/T
- Business Class to Portugal for 45K miles
You can find these at ThriftyTraveler.com/Premium
Post of the week
Beth Hanes Product changing gone wrong - Why does Chase hate me?
John Buchan - Is there an over-emphasis on the Chase Ink sign ups?
News
- Alaska cancels 20% of their flights
- United Offers (Outrageous) Premier Elite Status Buy-Up Offers
- New Alaska Consumer & Business cards as well as Hyatt Consumer & Business offers
- Did Marriott just #Bonvoy MGM
- New Lounge opening - who can get in?
Trip updates
- Angie -
- Tulip girls coming to Tampa for Gasparilla
- Keeps checking for flights to "Taco 'Bout a Fiesta" San Antonio meetup
- Looking at flights for Montana-would love to piggyback a trip with P2
- P2 mentioned he’d love to do a cruise
- Joe -
- Booked a trip to Japan and Korea trip as a result of a “missed” Thrifty Traveler Premium alert that retails for $31K for less than $250
What bonuses did we get?
- Angie
- Finished Minimum Spending Requirement (MSR) on Ink Cash
- Applied for Wyndham Business and eventually approved approved!
- Joe
- Finished MSR on the Wyndham Business Earner card
- Shared a tip on how I plan to get 25% off an $1,800 purchase
- P2 -100K Ink Preferred
- 40K referral
Highlight feature: Strategies for Building Healthy Credit and Better Offers
Tip of the week
Don’t sleep on lesser known partner programs. I provided an example of how you can use Etihad Guest miles for less in Award Travel 201. FULL DISCLOSURE - it is a subscription group, and runs from $9.99 monthly to $89.99 annually AND provides complimentary AwardWallet Plus.
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.
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. Recent finds include:
- Business Class to Europe for 55K points
- Premium Economy to Singapore for $1,249 R/T
- Business Class to Portugal for 45K miles
You can find these at ThriftyTraveler.com/Premium
Post of the week
Beth Hanes Product changing gone wrong - Why does Chase hate me?
John Buchan - Is there an over-emphasis on the Chase Ink sign ups?
News
- Alaska cancels 20% of their flights
- United Offers (Outrageous) Premier Elite Status Buy-Up Offers
- New Alaska Consumer & Business cards as well as Hyatt Consumer & Business offers
- Did Marriott just #Bonvoy MGM
- New Lounge opening - who can get in?
Trip updates
- Angie -
- Tulip girls coming to Tampa for Gasparilla
- Keeps checking for flights to "Taco 'Bout a Fiesta" San Antonio meetup
- Looking at flights for Montana-would love to piggyback a trip with P2
- P2 mentioned he’d love to do a cruise
- Joe -
- Booked a trip to Japan and Korea trip as a result of a “missed” Thrifty Traveler Premium alert that retails for $31K for less than $250
What bonuses did we get?
- Angie
- Finished Minimum Spending Requirement (MSR) on Ink Cash
- Applied for Wyndham Business and eventually approved approved!
- Joe
- Finished MSR on the Wyndham Business Earner card
- Shared a tip on how I plan to get 25% off an $1,800 purchase
- P2 -100K Ink Preferred
- 40K referral
Highlight feature: Strategies for Building Healthy Credit and Better Offers
Tip of the week
Don’t sleep on lesser known partner programs. I provided an example of how you can use Etihad Guest miles for less in Award Travel 201. FULL DISCLOSURE - it is a subscription group, and runs from $9.99 monthly to $89.99 annually AND provides complimentary AwardWallet Plus.
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.