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Award Travel 101 — 224 episodes

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Where to Go With 100K Capital One Miles

2

Milwaukee Meetup Recap

3

Japan: First Class to Egg Salad Sandwiches

4

Gondola AI Features and Review

5

Greece Using Points and Miles

6

Where To Go With 100K Membership Rewards

7

More Points and Miles Tools We Use

8

Is Booking Hotels Direct Dead?

9

Destination: Napa

10

Are They Still Skypesos?

11

Earning Points on College

12

Chase Sapphire Preferred Refresh Reaction

13

Where to Go With 100K Ultimate Rewards

14

1-Day, 4 City Bar Crawl (Chicago Seminars Too!)

15

Hyatt Award Chart Change Reaction

16

Workhorse Credit Cards

17

You Asked, We Answer

18

Best Hilton Redemptions With Transfer Bonus

19

Quick Trip Wins

20

Phoenix Meetup Recap

21

Using Award Travel to Help Aging Parents

22

Best Cash Back Credit Cards

23

Meet the Mods- Laura Kofoid

24

Unheralded Credit Card Perks

25

Unique P1/P1 Relationships

26

Chile and Patagonia Recap

27

Hyatt-ageddon?

28

Family Punta Cana Trip Recap

29

Expert Flyer Tool- Deep Dive

30

Cruise Recap- And How Points Can Help

31

Destination: Kauai

32

How Roame Travel Can Help Finding Flights

33

Bilt 2.0 Reaction

34

This and That -- Travel Quirks

35

Choice Hotels Deep Dive

36

2026 Points and Travel Strategies

37

What Points Did We Earn & Burn in 2025?

38

ZorkFest Recap

39

Year End Planning Checklist

40

Program Deep Dive: Marriott Bonvoy

41

Earning Points on Black Friday Shopping

42

Oh Air Canada!

43

Chicago Seminars 2025 Recap

44

Credit Card Credit Rundown

45

JetBlue 25 for 25

46

Deep Dive Into Delta

47

Rove Miles with Carissa

48

Leaf Peeping in New England

49

Destination: Dolomites

50

Miami Meetup Recap

51

Program Deep Dive: Hilton Honors

52

Seats.aero with Founder Ian Carroll

53

Southwest Companion Pass- Now's the Time

54

Atmos Rewards

55

Destination: Italy

56

I've Got Points, Now What?

57

Ants Marching... On Miles

58

EU261 Explained

59

London is Calling

60

Comparing Premium Travel Cards

61

Time To Re-Evaluate Our Wallets

62

Program Deep Dive: United MileagePlus

63

Destination: Alaska

64

Iceland With Points & Miles

65

Chicago Seminars 2025

66

Member Questions

67

Learning All About CardPointers

68

A Magnificent Meet Up

69

Trip to Slovenia & Croatia

70

Remaining Sweet Spots

71

Points After Death

72

Award Travel In Retirement

73

American Airlines Recap

74

Destination: Japan

75

What's It Like to Run a Facebook Group

76

Is Hyatt Still Our Favorite?

77

Gaming Award Travel

78

What's In Our Wallet?

79

Comparing Award Search Tools

80

What We Pack

81

Self Care Trips

82

Skiing With Points

83

How Award Travel Enables Adventure

84

Family Travel, Teenage Edition

85

New Years Travel

86

Budget Travel

87

2025 Strategy

88

Diversifying your Points

89

2024 Year End Wrap Up

90

Successful Family Travel

91

Girls Just Wanna…Travel

92

Year End Strategies

93

College Visits With Points and Miles

94

Shopping Smart – Holiday Strategies for Points and Savings

95

Post Trip Blues

96

Love It or Leave It

97

Passing the Torch

98

Award Travel 101; Who We Are

99

History of Award Travel 101

100

Giving Back

101

Meet The Mods - Maria

102

From Award Travel Hobby to Career

103

The Key to Getting the Best Offers... Your Credit Score

104

Meet The Mods - Justin Walter

105

Challenging the Norms

106

Chicago Seminars; Second City, but First in Points and Miles

107

Out to SEA Meetup

108

Meet The Mods - April Rose

109

How to Talk to Muggles

110

Around-the-World Adventures

111

Meet The Mods - Cameron Laufer

112

Life Changes

113

Halfway Point - Where Have We Been, Where are We Going?

114

Our Airport Lounge Obsession

115

Boneheaded Mistakes

116

Eye Opening Travel

117

Meet The Mods - Randy Clinton

118

These Are a Few of Our Favorite Grumps

119

Thrifty Travel with Gunnar Olson

120

The Summer of Travel (Pt. 1 - Preparing for Travel)

121

Chicago is a Points/Miles Kind of Town

122

Workhorse Cards (In Our Wallet Right Now)

123

Nice to Meetcha

124

Largest Hotel Chains - Which One's Right for You?

125

The Most Powerful Tool in Award Travel

126

When to Hold 'em and When to Fold 'em

127

How You Doing?

128

Points Down Under

129

First International Business Class Flight

130

Finding Award Space

131

Never Earn (Just) One Point Again - Maximizing Spend for the Most Rewards

132

Card Strategies - Let’s Get Crafty

133

Budget Travel with John Ryan

134

Flexible Over Fixed Points

135

Oh P2- What Did You Do?

136

Close-in Booking with Allison Tackette

137

Strategies for Building Healthy Credit and Better Offers

138

Award Travel to Forbes

139

How Many Points Did We Earn in 2023

140

New Year's (Award Travel) Resolutions

141

Globetrotting - 197* Countries with AwardWallet's Ryan Smith

142

Festivus, Yes! Devaluations, No!

143

Rio, Copacabana, and Taylor Swift

144

2023 Trip Recaps

145

The Lingo

146

Building Your Point Balances with Justin Vacula

147

How Do You Track All of Your Rewards?

148

Let's Get Thrifty

149

Unique and Aspirational Flights

150

Chicago Seminars and Zorkfest Recap

151

QSuites, Longest Flight in the World, and Bali

152

Underappreciated Award Currencies

153

Starting in Award Travel - Meet the Mods (Sophie Keller)

154

I Quit...to Travel

155

Skymiles Devaluation & Managing Pre-Trip Chaos

156

The Power of Business Cards

157

40 Cards - Is it Necessary? Will it Ruin You?

158

Next Meetup Announcement & Let's Go Crazy with AT in the TC

159

What's in Our Wallet

160

Favorite Card Perks and Putting Them ALL Together

161

Pancakes and Points

162

Which Card Offers the Best Travel Protections

163

All the Upgrades & Traveling With Kids Who Have Special Needs

164

What Are Points Worth

165

LIVE From a Lounge & Is American Airlines Status Worth Chasing

166

Favorite Airline, Hotel, and Flexible Point (Loyalty) Programs

167

First Class Trip to Croatia and Should You Speculatively Transfer Points

168

Crafty Way to See Taylor Swift and Ways to Earn Hotel Free Night Certificates

169

Mistakes We've Made

170

The Tools We Use for "Free Travel"

171

Gorgeous Pictures from Iran and Cards That Earn Status

172

Husband Cashes in All Their Points AND Programs To Book Round The World Flights

173

Citi Product Change Rules and Meet the Team: Allison Caraway

174

Best Card for Groceries and The Award Travel Community (Cleveland) Meetup

175

Incredible Trip to New Zealand on Points, Plus a Trip to the Freddie Awards

176

How Often Do you Get a New Card

177

Status Matching for More Value

178

Avgeeks, Spreadsheets, & Cheatsheets - Meet the Mods (Mike Zaccheo)

179

When to Part with Points & Angie's Safari Trip

180

Sapphire Lounge Opening, New Bonuses, and Meet the Mods: (Jerod Morales) Business Class for SIX

181

Hyatt Changes, AA Domestic First Class Routes, and Meet the Mods (Jackie Wisniewski)

182

Get 90,000 Points Before They're Gone & Traveling the World with JT Genter

183

Tracking Your Points with AwardWallet, Chasing Hyatt Status, & Partner Award Sweetspots

184

Cruise (on Points), Racking and Stacking, and Keep or Kick it to the Curb

185

8 Steps to Better Reward Travel

186

Creating Memories Through Big AND Small Trips

187

Booking a Dream (African Safari) Trip

188

Meet Angie & Joe

189

Award Travel 101 Returns to the Air Soon!

190

Meet the AT 101 Moderators: Toni Perkins

191

Juggling, The Onion, and Award Travel with Sam Kemmis from NerdWallet

192

FOMO, Too Much Travel, and a NOLA Meetup with Mark from MTM

193

Five Different Miles and Points to Great Group Trip

194

From Picky Eater to Restaurant Owner: Traveling for Food with Kevin Lawler

195

Meet the AT 101 Moderators: Julie Breeze

196

Oktoberfest & Booking Awards for Big Events with Spencer Howard

197

Event Planning, Building Community & Traveling The World with Brandon Neth

198

How to Master Award Travel By Attending Events

199

Stand-up Comedy, K-POP and World Travel with Ray Noriega

200

10 Things You Don't Know About Jeff

201

Getting to Know Jeff’s Better Half + Ultimate Africa Trip

202

Delay Compensation And Protect Your Miles From Being Hacked

203

We're Deal Hunting This Week!

204

We Answer Your Questions & Bailing On Citi

205

An Exciting Day for Award Travel 101

206

Fireside Chat with Points and Miles Expert Spencer Howard

207

Making The Most of Miles And New Ways To Earn on Fuel

208

Seven Days in European Luxury

209

Best Ways To Save on Car Rentals and Gas

210

Getting MileagePlus'd and Spending $10k at a Dollar General

211

Bonvoy-age to the Perfect Anniversary Trip

212

The Gas Man Cometh: When Loyalty Programs Behave Badly

213

What It's Like To Marry A Points Nerd

214

Christmas in May! Time to Start Holiday Planning

215

Do We Know How Many Miles an Award Ticket is Going to Cost?

216

Life Behind the Keyboard

217

What Happens to Points After Death?

218

Never Pay Full Price for Gas

219

Marriott May Bonvoy You But Still get The Points

220

Can I Redeem Miles for Ambulance Rides?

221

Meet A Points and Miles Addict That's Afraid of Flying

222

Marriott Bonvoy And The Struggle Bus

223

How To Win Your Battle With Points and Miles

224

Intro to the Award Travel 101 Podcast