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).

(01:52) - Using AAdvantage miles to book JetSmart and other tips for South America travel

(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

(21:06) - Qantas Nerfs Emirates First Class Awards

Read more about this here

(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

(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

(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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Music Credit – Beach Walk by Unicorn Heads

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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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