Question for you: Have you made redemptions with your miles? Which has been your favorite programs - Aeroplan, Flying Blue, Virgin Atlantic, or something else? 👇
Eva air 75K miles to Philippines business class, or singapore complimentary stop over tokyo/singapore for days but requires 120K miles/ cathay 109K only Eva air offers 75K (one way). any other programs its impossible to use points/mileage to get free flights to Philippines and most of the time no flights available.
I'm relatively new to the points and miles game and have yet to redeem anything with points. This is by far the most intimidating part of the whole game, especially with a bunch of connecting flights for groups of people lol. I welcome more videos like this in the future!
Always great to be able to do these, as it means more travel! Unfortunately though, it's rare for these specific walkthroughs to do that well here on RUclips..
When I went to Bangkok, it was a multi-city itinerary booked through United, SEA-SFO-HKG on UA and BKK-HND-SEA on ANA. Separately, I booked HKG-SIN-BKK on Singapore Airlines with United miles and before flying to Bangkok, I flew to Osaka and back on Hong Kong Express. A week after I booked that HKG-SIN-BKK redemption, the price in miles nearly doubled
@@KevinYang That trip was in June of this year. I probably booked it in March or April it was 27,500 miles per person in business class for HKG-SIN-BKK. It probably could have been done with fewer points booked through a different program, but I had the miles from actually flying United
This is the video I was waiting for. Trip to Thailand. Question, don’t you have to go though immigration in Taiwan before heading to Bangkok because your tickets were booked separately
One thing I never see discuss is, most of these flights are booked ONE WAY for departure, but how easy is it to book the RETURN? And do you book the RETURN the same day? Also can we get a total summary of the entire trip TO and FROM ? I am just generally curious is all.
For the cost to and from, typically it'll be similar x2! And yeah the return you'll have to do the exact same steps the other way around. Personally for most of my trips I was able to find a return trip pretty close in to the dates, but also I had a trip where I had no return flight booked up until 2 days before needing to return (also documented in a video!)
If I got the Citi trifecta and added BILT to that line up would that be better than the Chase trifecta since there’s no overlapping spending categories? And BILT comes with the primary rental collision insurance + Hyatt transfer partner I could use my rewards like this (Double Cash) 2x everything (Custom Cash) 5x Gas (City premier) 10x Through Citi Portal 3x Travel Outside of Citi Travel 3 xGroceries (BILT) 3x dining 1 x Rent And if you want you can add that 4th Citi card to get the 10% boost on 100k points
I typically use points for my partner and I, and others pay through with their points & cash, with varying degrees of how serious they take the credit card game haha
Question for you: Have you made redemptions with your miles? Which has been your favorite programs - Aeroplan, Flying Blue, Virgin Atlantic, or something else? 👇
Eva air 75K miles to Philippines business class, or singapore complimentary stop over tokyo/singapore for days but requires 120K miles/ cathay 109K only Eva air offers 75K (one way). any other programs its impossible to use points/mileage to get free flights to Philippines and most of the time no flights available.
I'm relatively new to the points and miles game and have yet to redeem anything with points. This is by far the most intimidating part of the whole game, especially with a bunch of connecting flights for groups of people lol. I welcome more videos like this in the future!
Always love to do these when I can, but one can only travel so much when there's still a full time job outside of this haha
We need more of these videos on how to redeem reward points. Thank you!
Always great to be able to do these, as it means more travel! Unfortunately though, it's rare for these specific walkthroughs to do that well here on RUclips..
When I went to Bangkok, it was a multi-city itinerary booked through United, SEA-SFO-HKG on UA and BKK-HND-SEA on ANA. Separately, I booked HKG-SIN-BKK on Singapore Airlines with United miles and before flying to Bangkok, I flew to Osaka and back on Hong Kong Express. A week after I booked that HKG-SIN-BKK redemption, the price in miles nearly doubled
How long ago was that? Nowadays unfortunately UA miles don't go that far
@@KevinYang That trip was in June of this year. I probably booked it in March or April it was 27,500 miles per person in business class for HKG-SIN-BKK. It probably could have been done with fewer points booked through a different program, but I had the miles from actually flying United
@@markcorneliuslau That actually sounds not too bad! HKG-SIN-BKK is a long route!
The tip about checking the cash amount for a round trip flight to a one way actually surprised me.
On some flights, it could be a huge difference! I've seen ones where one-way was more expensive than the round trip!
This is the video I was waiting for. Trip to Thailand. Question, don’t you have to go though immigration in Taiwan before heading to Bangkok because your tickets were booked separately
Haha glad the Thailand spot was specific enough for your situation! Yes, but most of the time immigration in major Asian cities are a breeze!
One thing I never see discuss is, most of these flights are booked ONE WAY for departure, but how easy is it to book the RETURN? And do you book the RETURN the same day? Also can we get a total summary of the entire trip TO and FROM ? I am just generally curious is all.
For the cost to and from, typically it'll be similar x2! And yeah the return you'll have to do the exact same steps the other way around. Personally for most of my trips I was able to find a return trip pretty close in to the dates, but also I had a trip where I had no return flight booked up until 2 days before needing to return (also documented in a video!)
If I got the Citi trifecta and added BILT to that line up would that be better than the Chase trifecta since there’s no overlapping spending categories? And BILT comes with the primary rental collision insurance + Hyatt transfer partner
I could use my rewards like this
(Double Cash)
2x everything
(Custom Cash)
5x Gas
(City premier)
10x Through Citi Portal
3x Travel Outside of Citi Travel
3 xGroceries
(BILT)
3x dining
1 x Rent
And if you want you can add that 4th Citi card to get the 10% boost on 100k points
What's the point transfer search system in 11:56?
seats.aero!
Do you pay for all these flights? Or does everyone in your group play the credit card game and have their own bank of credit card points?
I typically use points for my partner and I, and others pay through with their points & cash, with varying degrees of how serious they take the credit card game haha
How come you don’t visit motherland China Mr Yang ?
I've actually only been for 1-2 days in my entire life!