Making A Points Millionaire: Recent Episodes
Making A Points Millionaire
In the latest episode of Making A Points Millionaire, we continue the journey of earning points and miles as we celebrate the joys of travel, talk Southwest Airlines strategies, and review past advice to see if it’s still applicable. This podcast concentrates on financial literacy, strategy, and skills needed to learn how to take on “The Hobby” that has brought so many people affordable travel and experiences.
The Agenda:
- Mexico City Trip
- A trip without points/miles for the pure joy of travel
- Using CBX
- Hot air balloon over Teotihuacan
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Public spaces and museums
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Gardening Southwest reservations
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Using SW booking flexibility to capture fare drops
- The benefit of having a big bankroll of SW miles
- Companion pass
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Exploiting schedule changes to capture the lowest possible award price
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Reviewing an old episode’s advice on AA
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AA is still the easiest program to quickly earn 200k-400k miles in a couple months to fuel an international trip
- AA offers cards from Citi (personal and business) and Barclays (personal)
- Using Plastiq to use the AA Citi cards to pay a mortgage
HOMEWORK: It’s time to get the Barclays Wyndham Business Earner card for 100k points. We discuss Vacasa’s ownership of Wyndham and how you can use this card to fuel points AirBnB style vacation rentals.
Feel free to ask me any questions you have on points/miles on Twitter via @hjpreller or e-mail pointsmillionaire@gmail.com
https://ia600303.us.archive.org/22/items/making-a-points-millionaire-episode-9/Making%20A%20Points%20Millionaire%20Episode%209.mp3
In the annual episode (hopefully not!) of Making A Points Millionaire, we continue the journey of earning points and miles as we face an entirely new travel environment of limited business class availability and devaluations. This podcast concentrates on financial literacy, strategy, and skills needed to learn how to take on “The Hobby” that has brought so many people affordable travel and experiences.
The Agenda:
- Japan Trip
- How we used transferable points to fly Singapore Air in business class
- Intl travel with a baby
- The highlights of the trip to Japan
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Hotel stay at the Conrad Tokyo and Conrad Osaka
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Current Points and Miles Environment
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Devaluations
- Limited Availability and Routes STILL
- Need to be flexible
- Economy availability is still good, plentiful, and cheap!
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Build up balances so you’re ready to strike when you find availability
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It’s Southwest Companion Pass Season
HOMEWORK: It’s time to get the Chase SW Personal and Business cards again to earn 135k in the next calendar year!
Feel free to ask me any questions you have on points/miles on Twitter via @hjpreller or e-mail pointsmillionaire@gmail.com
https://ia904708.us.archive.org/18/items/making-a-points-millionaire-episode-8/Making%20A%20Points%20Millionaire%20Episode%208.mp3
In the long awaited seventh episode of Making A Points Millionaire, we continue the journey of earning points and miles as we face an entirely new travel environment. This podcast concentrates on financial literacy, strategy, and skills needed to learn how to take on “The Hobby” that has brought so many people affordable travel and experiences. The Agenda: Discussion of how absolutely nothing has changed …
In the sixth episode of Making A Points Millionaire, we continue the journey of taking a points and miles novice from zero to a million points/miles in one year. This podcast concentrates on financial literacy, strategy, and skills needed to learn how to take on “The Hobby” that has brought so many people affordable travel and experiences. The Agenda: Review of episode 5 assignment: SUCCESS! …
In the fifth episode of Making A Points Millionaire, we continue the journey of taking a points and miles novice from zero to a million points/miles in one year. This podcast concentrates on financial literacy, strategy, and skills needed to learn how to take on “The Hobby” that has brought so many people affordable travel and experiences. The Agenda: Review of episode 4 assignment: SUCCESS! …
In the fourth episode of Making A Points Millionaire, we continue the journey of taking a points and miles novice from zero to a million points/miles in one year. This podcast concentrates on financial literacy, strategy, and skills needed to learn how to take on “The Hobby” that has brought so many people affordable travel and experiences. The Agenda: Review of episode 3 assignment: SUCCESS! …
In the third episode of Making A Points Millionaire, we continue the journey of taking a points and miles novice from zero to a million points/miles in one year. This podcast concentrates on financial literacy, strategy, and skills needed to learn how to take on “The Hobby” that has brought so many people affordable travel and experiences. The Agenda: Review of episode 2 assignment: SUCCESS! …
In the second episode of Making A Points Millionaire, we continue the journey of taking a points and miles novice from zero to a million points/miles in one year. This podcast concentrates on financial literacy, strategy, and skills needed to learn how to take on “The Hobby” that has brought so many people affordable travel and experiences. The Agenda: Introductions: @HJPreller and our new co-host, none other …
In the first episode of Making A Points Millionaire, we start the journey of taking a points and miles novice from zero to a million points/miles in one year. This podcast concentrates on financial literacy, strategy, and skills needed to learn how to take on “The Hobby” that has brought so many people affordable travel and experiences. The Agenda: Introductions: @HJPreller and @shelihiggins The Contract …