{"podcast":{"title":"Frequent Miler on the Air","slug":"frequent-miler-on-the-air-598384","podcast_index_feed_id":598384,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/frequent-miler-on-the/","website_url":"https://frequentmiler.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4f727b9a-716b-4ce3-a321-803c50a92a64/FMOTA-Legible-4.jpg","author":"Frequent Miler","episode_count":553,"summary":"Earn miles without flying. Frequent Miler is all about getting the most out of the loyalty game. You can easily earn hundreds of thousands of points and miles without traveling, then learn how to use those points towards luxury travel. In this podcast, Frequent Miler founder Greg, and senior author Nick debate current topics in the points & miles world.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T04:21:39.136887+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/frequent-miler-on-the-air-598384"},"episode":{"title":"How do you decide whether to buy flights with cash or miles? | Question of the Week Ep10 | 7-26-26","slug":"how-do-you-decide-whether-to-buy-flights-with-cash-or-miles-question-of-the-week-ep10-7-26-26","published_at":"2026-07-26T21:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/frequent-miler-on-the-air-598384/how-do-you-decide-whether-to-buy-flights-with-cash-or-miles-question-of-the-week-ep10-7-26-26","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/frequent-miler-on-the-air-598384","url":"https://voyascape.com/frequent-miler/how-do-you-decide-whether-to-buy-flights-with-cash-or-miles-question-of-the-week-ep10-7-26-26","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/23182a58-614a-4047-b5e1-9082f0322412.mp3","summary":"This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily rates to your home carrier or swapping SIM cards on arrival, Saily gives you flexible prepaid data plans in over 200 destinations worldwide. Download Saily from your app store and use our code FREQUENTMILER at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase. https://saily.com/frequentmiler How do you decide whether to buy flights with cash or miles? Follower Owen asked this question recently, saying: \"On the podcast you guys often say that you rarely book flights with cash. I find that, especially when booking domestic flights, I often can’t get amazing value from my points (let’s say <1.5cpp). As a result, I tend to hoard my points for those big outsized value redemptions (international business class, Park Hyatt stays, etc.) so I end up booking the flight with cash. How do you think about these situations, especially when you have less flexibility around dates? (Let’s say you’re traveling for an event, or just traveling during peak season). How much do you value the extra flexibility that comes with booking with points? At what point do you decide you have plenty of points so redeeming for lower value isn’t the end of the world?\" We’ve been answering a reader or listener question at the end of each Frequent Miler on the Air podcast episode. Now, we’ve turned the question of the week into its own weekly episode. Tune in every Sunday at 5pm for our Question of the Week podcast. And if you have your own question you’d like to submit, you can send it to mailbag@frequentmiler.com. Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world This podcast is part of the Voyascape Network, a collection of some of the world…","meta_description":"This podcast episode is sponsored by Saily. Saily is an ESIM service app created by the security experts behind NordVPN. Instead of paying absurd daily ra…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1452,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/frequent-miler-on-the-air-598384/episodes/how-do-you-decide-whether-to-buy-flights-with-cash-or-miles-question-of-the-week-ep10-7-26-26/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/frequent-miler-on-the-air-598384/how-do-you-decide-whether-to-buy-flights-with-cash-or-miles-question-of-the-week-ep10-7-26-26.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}