Learning to Love LifeMiles | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep257 | 5-31-24
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- (00:00) - Nick has loved LifeMiles for a long time but Greg has traditionally been less convinced. Recent changes make Greg curious to hear more about Nick's long-time love of LifeMiles. Can Nick convince Greg to become a fan?
(01:33) - On Ep 255: Strategizing Hilton cards, credits, and free nights,
Greg’s podcasted plan left people with questions about family language for Hilton cards (Mailbag)
Find episode 255 here: frequentmiler.com/podcast-str...
(05:12) - Hilton cards with new welcome bonuses (Mattress Running the Numbers)
Learn more about the Hilton fee free card here: frequentmiler.com/AmxHilton/
And learn about the Hilton Surpass card here: frequentmiler.com/hilton-hono...
(12:27) - Southwest now on Google Flights (Award Talk)
(16:09) - Finnair Avios now combinable (Award Talk)
(18:20) - AA NOT eliminating mile & loyalty point earnings through OTAs (Award Talk)
(19:22) - Cardless Avianca LifeMiles Cards (Card Talk)
Read more about the Avianca LifeMiles American Express® Card Here: frequentmiler.com/AviancaCard/
Read more about the Avianca LifeMiles American Express® Elite Card here: frequentmiler.com/AviancaElit...
Main Event: Learning to Love LifeMiles
(28:33) - Easy miles to get
(31:51) - LifeMiles+ subscriptions
(49:30) - Using LifeMiles, standard pricing
(53:43) - Hidden sweet-spots
(59:30) - Mixed cabin pricing
Read Greg's post "Aviance Miles - First Class for Less" here: frequentmiler.com/avianca-lif...
(1:04:47) - How to search for complicated awards
(1:11:14) - How to search for awards (less complicated)
(1:22:10) - Downsides...
(1:25:32) - Pop Quiz for Greg about quadruple dip opportunities for a Hilton Curio Collection hotel (Question of the Week)
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Music Credit - “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
NH hotels were my favorite hotels when I lived in Europe, they routinely had LATE 5pm check out.
I am with Greg with them Lifemiles, I really value simplicity and less mental bandwidth towards difficult to deal programs like LM.
From what i can tell The Edit is only offering hotel points on chains that chase offers cards for. So yes for Marriott and IHG and no for Hilton
All Avianca lounges are part of Plaza Premium Lounges, so you can enter free with AMEX Platinum and/or Venture X. There's a couple of Avianca lounges in Priority Pass but not all of them
Thanks for the info + video!
So there is a little trick if you know there is award space and you don’t see it listed on lifemiles due to it not being a direct route with say lufthansa for example. You select search by lufthansa or carrier from and to a destination they do fly with the date you want. Then change the destination “only” to the one you know they should have and you should see them all.
When you change the destination doesn't that just cause it to do a brand new search? -Greg
@@frequent-miler no
I find a lot of flights on United out of Houston. I routinely book last minute flights buying miles and save a time of money. Where I struggle is getting to Asia. I’m going to try those filter searches on Eva and Ana and see what that yields .
Close to the 1st!😊
Ive seen the hotel loyalty eligible for us branded hotels as well.
If you can just buy Avianca LifeMiles for 1.3cpp, and imagine you had an intro bonus card to rebate some of the cost of purchasing them, then wouldn't it be a waste of oints to transfer? Wouldn't it be more mathematical to redeem points for travel poortal flights that cannot yield outsized value, then buy avianca miles on an intro bonus?
Does LM allow for a stopover?
Nope. That's definitely something we'd have talked about on an episode like this if they did though!
-Nick
Not first
question- I've had the no-fee Hilton got a decade, but changed to a surpass and got a bonus 7 yrs ago, and it won't allow me to re-sign up for a surpass and get a sign up bonus. have you heard if Hiltons lifetime clock expires?
Google doctor of credit Hilton no lifetime. The link bypasses Amex popup and instant approval.
It's probably Amex pop-up jail, not anything on Hilton's side.
I've had multiple variations of Amex Hilton cards and successfully gotten sign-up bonuses on the same card(s).
Nick Should have asked Lifemilles why they aren't partnered with Chase.
I did! Chase has a minimum number of US members to consider partnering and LM doesn't yet have it.
@@frequent-miler so is this your attempt to get LM more members? Do we need to sign up more people to the Lifemilles system?
I got the free night certificate from Hilton before hitting the spending requirement. It arrived too early for a planned trip next year. So people interested in Hilton cards might want to consider the time of application.
You likely had pending charges you didn't account for. They don't accidentally pay out subs.
@@seanfetsko233 I was far from the requirement and didn't have many pending charges. I was also surprised to receive the sign-up bonus early (about ten weeks after my application). I am not sure if this applies to everyone, but I would like to share the data point.
In a similar situation as Greg of only being able to get one Hilton card at the moment- between HH card and Surpass. Also got the biz card and going to earn the FNC soon. Still torn but leaning towards HH. Best long term strategy. Family language could be added. Get Surpass within a year after getting HH, then upgrade HH to Surpass in 12 months. Same logic to get HH Aspire. Biz + HH would yield at least ~350k HH Points + 2 FNCs, Gold Status, and $240 in credits for $17K spend and $195 AF. Biz + Surpass when hit MSR on surpass would yield at least ~415k HH Points + 2 FNCs, Gold Status, $440 in credits for $18k spend and $345 AF. To me the additional points are not worth it, and the additional $12k to spend to get the additional FNC on the surpass could be used to hit other SUBs.