12 things to know about Hyatt's devaluation | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep365 | 7-3-26

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

(27:46) - 5. Points more valuable with certain brands

(30:37) - 6. Points less valuable with certain brands

(32:14) - 7. Points are less valuable at high end

(34:27) - 8. Points are more valuable at low end

(35:54) - 9. Many cities offer excellent value

(39:45) - 10. Singapore offers surprisingly poor value: 1.0

(40:47) - 11. Worst and best values barely budged

(41:52) - 12. Mr & Mrs Smith not as bad as we thought

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