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Airline Alliances: The Key to Booking Flights for Fewer Points
SkyTeam and Star Alliance might seem like boring corporate brants, but understanding airline alliances - and how to use them to your advantage - is absolutely critical for leveling up your travels.…
Surprise: Chase Souped Up the Sapphire Preferred Card!
The single-best travel credit card - the one we recommend most, especially for beginners - somehow just got even better. Chase just unveiled some shockingly positive changes this week that merited a…
Booking 5-Star Hotels in Italy, Airline Upgrade Scams & More News
Gunnar is back from Italy (and he’s completely insufferable about it …), so the guys break down his trip through Rome and beyond and how he booked some amazing stays - via Hilton. Plus, they recap…
The Biggest Winners & Losers from Hyatt’s Massive Changes
It’s a Brave (?) New World … of Hyatt. The hotel chain (almost) everybody loves officially brought down the hammer with some sweeping and painful changes to its award program. So with Gunnar overseas…
Roasting YOUR Worst Travel Mistakes
Gunnar and Kyle have already made fools of themselves with their most embarrassing travel mistakes. Now it’s your turn in the spotlight. After a deluge of emails, the guys share your big mishaps and…
Cheap Flights Are Still Out There: How to Find Them
We know, we know: The flight prices have gotten rough out there, travelers … but not everywhere. So on this week’s pod, Gunnar and Kyle devote the show to spelling out the quintessential steps to…
Dropping Airfare, Thailand & The Case Against Points & Miles
It’s the episode where we all get to be jealous of Kyle’s trip to Thailand. Luckily, he tells us how to book it and why his inkling to avoid using points and miles (for part of it) made the trip that…
How to Earn a Million Points & Fly Delta One for Less
This week, we go in-depth on Delta One business class from a person who is too young to know this much about flying Delta’s premier product around the world. Thrifty Traveler’s Kyle Thomas joins the…
Bilt Has Us Wondering: Is Chase Still King of Travel Rewards?
Thrifty Traveler Co-Founder Nick Serati helps us answer a pressing points and miles question: Is Chase still the most important travel rewards program? After running the numbers, he’s changed his…
The 14 Things We Never Travel Without (& the 1 Thing We Hate)
It’s amazing how a pair of headphones, a pillow, or a carry-on bag can make or break your trip. That’s why we’re going through all of our favorite travel gear in this week’s special bonus episode.…
The Dirty Little Secrets of Points & Miles
Not everything is as easy as travel and points and miles influencers make it look. Have you ever wondered, “How are these people earning all of these points?” Or, “How are these people taking so many…
Mistake Fares, Merger Murmurs & Battling Bag Fees
We’re shining a spotlight on baggage (both travel and emotional …) this week as airlines raised bag fees almost in unison. So the guys talk through what happened, why, and - most importantly - what…
Our Biggest, Most Embarrassing Travel Mistakes
Travel isn’t always perfect and we certainly aren’t either. This week on the show, Gunnar and Kyle cop to the worst travel mistakes they’ve made over the year. From rehashing Gunnar’s Avianca last…
Bag Fees Go Up, United Throws Down & 10 More News Stories
The news has been relentless to kick off the spring, so the guys spend the show tackling a dozen different stories. There’s an update on those awful TSA lines, JetBlue already raised its baggage…
WTF is Happening with Flight Prices & What We’re Doing
Gunnar is back from a rain-soaked trip to Hawaii to talk about oil prices, airfare, and what’s next for flight prices - plus, an update on what’s happening at TSA checkpoints across the country as…
Ask Us Anything: Biz Class to Australia, How We Earn Points & Big Pod News!
Against all odds, our baby - this humble travel podcast - is one year old! So the guys are celebrating the best way they know how: by turning the show over to you listeners for another mailbag…
More Flights, Fewer Points: 5 Underrated Mileage Programs
Sure, you can earn and redeem SkyMiles and Rapid Rewards points to your heart’s content. We won’t stop you. But it’s the next level of points and miles programs that help you save even more and turn…
More Southwest Drama, United’s Bold Move & More Big News
This week, we round up all the recent travel news that’s fit to podcast! That includes Kyle’s experience with CLEAR’s (honestly amazing) new e-gates, what United’s up to with its credit card moves, a…
The Best (& Worst) Business Classes in the World
Kyle and Gunnar are joined by Thrifty Traveler Chief Flight Deal Analyst (and Domino’s elite member) Jon Shallbetter, who helps them put the 37 combined business class seats they’ve flown into tiers…
RIP World of Hyatt? Dissecting Big, Bad Changes
We’re all too accustomed to hotels and airlines making negative changes, but Hyatt genuinely broke our hearts this week. So Gunnar and Kyle devote the show to diving into some massive changes on tap…
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