Discarding our card collections | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep342 | 1-23-26

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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