HeyJaredPoint Me To First Class
Point Me to First Class is a show for employed professionals, solopreneurs, entrepreneurs, and business owners with higher-than-average personal and/or business expenses who want to learn to leverage them into credit card points to spend on travel.
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186. Around the World in Five Days: How We Reverse-Engineered an Epic Award Trip (opens the original)
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Planning an entire trip around one airline seat is a backwards way to travel, and every so often it's exactly the right one. My friend Andrea and I have wanted to fly first-class Singapore Airlines Suites on the A380 for years. When we two award seats on their newest first class on a long-haul flight, we built a five-day trip around the world around them, five flights, and almost no regard for where any of it landed on a map. What follows is the whole story, the planning, the flying, and the fra
185. Which Points Get Your Family to Asia in Business Class? (opens the original)
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Collecting a big pile of points is not the same as being able to book the flights your family wants. That gap shows up nowhere more clearly than when you're trying to get your whole family into business class to Asia. This week my guest is Maria Fung, founder of Maria Points the Way, who helps families use points and miles to reach Asia and Asia-Pacific. When Maria moved from Hong Kong to the US, she did everything the points world tells you to do, and soon found it wasn't getting her family hom
184. Hotel Planner Points: How to Earn Points for Any Event (opens the original)
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Some of the biggest points opportunities have nothing to do with your credit card at all. It turns out hotels quietly reward the person who books an event with them, a conference, a retreat, a wedding, a family reunion, and most people have no idea. They're called planner points. To unpack them, I sat down with Rachel Posada Fletcher, who spent years as an event manager negotiating exactly these kinds of hotel contracts. And the best part is you don't have to plan events for a living to earn and
183. Is the Bilt Palladium Card Worth It? A Six-Month Review of Bilt 2.0 (opens the original)
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Six months ago, Bilt rebuilt its entire rewards program, including releasing the new premium Palladium card with its promise of earning transferable points on rent and even mortgage payments, drawing a lot of attention in the points world. Today we are following up on what it's actually been like to carry and use the Bilt Palladium card now that the shine has worn off and real life has set in. Kelly and I have almost identical points philosophies, which is exactly why it's so much fun that Bilt
182. Behind the Scenes of seats.aero with Keith Van (opens the original)
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Have you ever wondered what your award search tool can see that you can't? My guest this week is Keith Van, who leads community at seats.aero, one of the award search platforms I reach for most. What made this so fun for me is that his team sees something the rest of us never do. They can watch how travelers everywhere are searching for award space all at once, which means they notice patterns in demand and in availability that none of us could piece together alone, and a few of the ones Keith s
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