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The 5 Best Award Search Tools | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep296 | 3-7-25

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In today’s episode we’ll talk about how American Airlines out-crazies Citi, Southwest out-bonvoys Marriott, and we’ll talk about what we think are the 5 best award search tools that make it much easier to find those coveted awards.

Main Event: The 5 Best Award Search Tools

Watch the full episode below, or listen on your favorite podcast platform. You can click the timestamps below to navigate directly to a specific part of the episode within YouTube. For a transcript of this episode, click “Watch on Youtube” on the video below, then click the “…more” link in the video description. This will expand full video details. Scrolling down past the timestamps and chapters, you’ll see a “Show Transcript” button. If you’re an Apple Podcast listener, you can touch and hold a podcast episode to reveal an option to view a transcript.

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Mail Bag

(01:25) – One reader shares their concerns about tax payments made by an American Express card not counting towards sign up bonus spending.

(05:28) – Read more about paying taxes with a credit card here and check out our podcast Episode239 about paying taxes to earn rewards.

Card News

(05:45) – Capital One Venture X Business cards have a Rideshare Protection benefit (which you can read more about here.)

(08:00) – Hilton cards offer free night thru 4/29 (which you can read more about here.)

(10:29) – Wyndham Earner cards big bonuses

Read more about these Wyndham Earner bonuses here.

Crazy Thing:

(13:39) – Citi: accidentally credited a client’s account with $81 trillion when it meant to send only $280 (Read more about this here.)

(15:22) – American Airlines made a huge blunder which you can read about here.

Bonvoyed

(19:25) – Marriott StudioRes

(26:00) – Southwest for the win

Read more about Southwest slashing points earning on Wanna Get Away fares here.

Awards, Points, and More

(29:52) – Alaska starting to roll out mixed partner awards

Read more about this here.

(32:23) – Aeroplan Family Points Sharing Returns

Read more here.

(35:20) – Hilton adds more and more SLH properties

(38:06) – Find current transfer bonuses here.

Main Event: The 5 Best Award Search Tools

(41:14) – Read our post about award search tools here.

(42:47) – Live Searches vs. Cached Discovery

(47:23) – Alerts are KEY

(50:25) – Flexible Live Search is very important

(51:59) – Which is Best?

(54:57) – Runner up

(59:07) – Best for Beginners

(1:02:28) – Best for advanced people

(1:05:10) – Best add on (to use in addition to these other tools)

(1:08:15) – Worth mentioning

(1:12:17) – Discounts available in our post about which award search tool is best here: https://frequentmiler.com/which-award-search-tool-is-best/

Question of the Week

(1:12:28) – What should you do with your Capital One miles?

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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder

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