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How to get the most out of your credit card points when it comes to travel
The Street
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2/6/2024
The Points Guy, Brian Kelly, joins TheStreet to explain how consumers can get the most out of their saved up credit card points.
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What are some of the most common mistakes that you see people make?
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The mistakes I see people make are not accruing miles or a lot of people will say,
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"Oh, the frequent flyer mile game, it's so expensive these days."
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And that is true to an extent.
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So, you know, the big three airlines, Delta, United and American,
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they have increased the amount of miles you need to go.
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Sometimes eye-poppingly so.
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Delta is known for having 300,000 miles plus one way to Europe.
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But here's the trick, people.
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Don't put all your miles and points in those airlines.
00:27
Real people in the know, so use credit cards.
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Be loyal to your credit card that allows you to transfer to a lot of different partners.
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Because, for example, you want to fly Delta, you can fly Delta business class.
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That same 300,000-mile ticket, you can get as low as 50,000 Virgin Atlantic miles.
00:42
So there's a hack to using Virgin Atlantic.
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If you just Google "Virgin Atlantic award calendar trick,"
00:49
and you can snatch Delta flights super, super cheap.
00:53
So it's earn points in the U.S.
00:55
It's easy to earn points and then transfer them to foreign frequent flyer programs,
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Air Canada Aeroplan, Air France Flying Blue, Virgin Atlantic,
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and snag deals with those programs because they have lower thresholds
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for the amount of miles needed.
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