Frequent Miler on the Air

In today's episode, we discover that not all heroes have capes, some redeem rewards! We learn a trick for extending Southwest flight credits, and we tell all: how we increase our credit card spend.
(01:06) - See our podcast episode 197, "13 ways to increase credit card spend" here
Giant Mailbag
(01:37) - Mike: We can be heroes...just for one day
Listen to our episode about sharing miles and points here
(03:58) - Brent: Charitable giving
Listen to our podcast about rewards from giving here
Card News
(09:15) - Bilt quietly removed eBay & Facebook Marketplace as exclusions
Read more about this here
Mattress Running the Numbers
(10:39) - Bilt Rent Day transfer bonus to Accor
Awards, Points, and More
(19:21) - Southwest credits are valid for 60 months in some situations
(23:22) - JetBlue 25for25 stats
(29:16) - Capital One Shopping Home Page Bonus Offers
Read more about Capital One Shopping home page bonus offers here
Main Event: How we increase spend to earn big card bonuses
(32:55) - See our podcast episode 197, "13 ways to increase credit card spend" here
(33:57) - Today, we'll describe the ways we (Nick and I) increase spend in real life
(34:15) - About paying fees
(37:43) - Pay taxes
Read about paying taxes via credit card here
(45:23) - Use a service to pay bills that don’t ordinarily accept a credit card, like Plastiq
Learn more about Plastiq here
(52:07) - Melio
Learn more about Melio here
(53:49) - Fund college savings or pay student loans
Learn about miles for college here
(1:01:12) - Make loans through Kiva
Learn about Kiva here
(1:03:40) - Pay bills for friends or family
(1:07:10) - Fund new bank accounts
Learn more about funding a bank account with a credit card here
(1:11:52) - Buy and sell merchandise
Learn about buying groups here
(1:13:13) - Buy and sell gift cards
Learn about buying and selling gift cards...

With Bilt 2.0, Bilt introduced a complicated new rewards currency called "Bilt Cash". We're going to try to dissect that today.
CB: Bilt Cash: Couponization to the Max
(00:11) - Bilt 2.0: 3 new cards, 2 complicated ways to earn points on housing payments; and 1 complicated new rewards currency... Bilt Cash
Read more about it here: https://frequentmiler.com/bilt-cash-how-to-use/
(00:57) - Earning Bilt Cash
(02:12) - December 31 Bilt Cash Gets Trashed Day
(02:45) - Using Bilt Cash
(10:41) - Evaluating Bilt Cash uses
(16:45) - Coupons
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Music Credit – Beach Walk by Unicorn Heads
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In today's episode, we'll talk about a trick for getting great value with Delta miles, which has returned, how flying Emirates first with points has gotten harder, and the hard truth about how we have too many cards (and what to do about it).
Giant Mailbag
(01:52) - Using AAdvantage miles to book JetSmart and other tips for South America travel
Card News
(04:10) - Air France/KLM Flying Blue
Read more about Air France KLM flying blue here
(15:38) - Capital One Venture Rewards: 75K + $250 travel after $4K spend
(18:35) - Bilt Cash details revealed
Catch up on how Bilt bungled the rollout here
Bonvoyed
(21:06) - Qantas Nerfs Emirates First Class Awards
Read more about this here
Awards, Points, and More
(23:34) - Delta trick lowering award prices by booking flights to/from Mexico, working once again
(25:20) - Alaska $99 Companion Fares can be used with the multi-city tool on the regular booking engine again
(26:35) - American Airlines Awards flying Aer Lingus Now Available Online
Main Event: Discarding our card collections
(28:14) - Find out which premium cards we think are keepers here
(31:41) - Greg's thoughts about keeper cards
(35:25) - $795 Sapphire Reserve® Card Example (read more about our thoughts here)
(57:45) - $325 American Express® Gold Card example
(1:04:44) - $895 American Express Platinum Card® example
(1:14:58) - Cards Greg and Nick have discarded recently
Question of the Week
(1:24:08) - American Express® Gold Card with 4x dining vs Atmos™ Rewards Summit Visa Infinite® Card with 3x dining + status... which one is worth it?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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Chase is out with offers for both their Marriott Bonvoy Boundless® Credit Card and Chase World of Hyatt Credit Card, both offering up to 5 free nights. So which of these offers is better?
(00:32) - World of Hyatt Card
(01:17) - Marriott Bonvoy Boundless® Card
(01:36) - Which is better?
(01:47) - Marriott advantages
(05:17) - Hyatt advantages
(08:10) - Caution: Annual category changes coming soon (last year it was March 25 for Hyatt, unknown for Marriott)
(09:28) - Final answer
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Bilt released details of its new credit cards on Wednesday...but it was so confusing, they tried to clarify it with more confusion.
(00:18) - Bilt released details of its new credit cards on Wednesday.
You can read more about Bilt 2.0 here: https://frequentmiler.com/bilt-makes-earning-rewards-on-housing-payments-even-more-confusing/
(00:23) - We've written extensively about it, and today (as we record this update), we dropped a full-length podcast about it
Find the full podcast here: https://frequentmiler.com/introducing-the-new-and-confusing-bilt-2-0-frequent-miler-on-the-air-ep341-1-16-26/
(01:16) - Bilt heard all of us and doubled down with an even more confusing solution...
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Music Credit – Beach Walk by Unicorn Heads
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