12 things to know about Hyatt's devaluation | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep365 | 7-3-26
About this episode
The episode discusses Hyatt's devaluation and various updates in the travel rewards landscape.
On today's episode, we'll see how the 5x airline card saga continues, Nick will give us more reasons to use the Southwest app, we'll hear some exciting news about Frontier, and we'll dive deep into Hyatt's devaluation. Giant Mailbag (01:06) - More comments about our comments about there being "No airline cards offer 5x or more" Crazy Thing: Chase (03:41) - Points Boost is sometimes different between Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card & Sapphire Reserve for Business℠ Card Bonvoyed (07:22) - Lifemiles+ eliminates free cancellation benefit for new subscribers Awards, Points, and More (11:35) - Alaska Wallet funds can now be used for AS companion fares again (12:20) - Rove adds Frontier as a transfer partner Read more about Frontier being added as a Rove transfer partner here (15:30) - Nick's Southwest notes Main Event: 12 things to know about Hyatt's devaluation (21:18) - Hyatt recently introduced new award charts. We dug into the numbers... Read more about the changed value of Hyatt points here (22:20) - 1. Median point value dropped ~10% (23:10) - 2. Cherry-picked value dropped <10% (24:34) - 3. It could have been much worse (26:31) - 4. It will probably be much worse next year…
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