Award Travel 101

By Award Travel 101 Team

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Welcome to the Award Travel 101 Podcast! Founded in 2013 with just 20 members, the Award Travel 101 Facebook group teaches members how to travel the world using points and miles. Today, a community of over 100,000+ people from around the world share, teach and learn how to travel anywhere on any budget. Where are you going with Award Travel?


Episode Date
Atmos Rewards
Aug 29, 2025
Destination: Italy
Aug 22, 2025
I've Got Points, Now What?
Aug 15, 2025
Ants Marching... On Miles
Aug 08, 2025
EU261 Explained
Aug 01, 2025
London is Calling
Jul 25, 2025
Comparing Premium Travel Cards
Jul 18, 2025
Time To Re-Evaluate Our Wallets
Jul 11, 2025
Program Deep Dive: United MileagePlus
Jul 04, 2025
Destination: Alaska
Jun 27, 2025
Iceland With Points & Miles
Jun 20, 2025
Chicago Seminars 2025
Jun 13, 2025
Member Questions
Jun 06, 2025
Learning All About CardPointers
May 30, 2025
A Magnificent Meet Up
May 23, 2025
Trip to Slovenia & Croatia
May 16, 2025
Remaining Sweet Spots
May 09, 2025
Points After Death
May 02, 2025
Award Travel In Retirement
Apr 25, 2025
American Airlines Recap
Apr 18, 2025
Destination: Japan
Apr 11, 2025
What's It Like to Run a Facebook Group
Apr 04, 2025
Is Hyatt Still Our Favorite?
Mar 28, 2025
Gaming Award Travel
Mar 21, 2025
What's In Our Wallet?
Mar 14, 2025
Comparing Award Search Tools
Mar 07, 2025
What We Pack
Feb 28, 2025
Self Care Trips
Feb 21, 2025
Skiing With Points
Feb 14, 2025
How Award Travel Enables Adventure
Feb 07, 2025
Family Travel, Teenage Edition
Jan 31, 2025
New Years Travel
Jan 24, 2025
Budget Travel
Jan 17, 2025
2025 Strategy
Jan 10, 2025
Diversifying your Points
Jan 03, 2025
2024 Year End Wrap Up
Dec 27, 2024
Successful Family Travel
Dec 20, 2024
Girls Just Wanna…Travel
Dec 13, 2024
Year End Strategies
Dec 06, 2024
College Visits With Points and Miles
Nov 29, 2024
Shopping Smart – Holiday Strategies for Points and Savings
Nov 22, 2024
Post Trip Blues
Nov 15, 2024
Love It or Leave It
Nov 08, 2024
Passing the Torch
Nov 01, 2024
Award Travel 101; Who We Are
Oct 25, 2024
History of Award Travel 101
Oct 18, 2024
Giving Back
Oct 11, 2024
Meet The Mods - Maria
Oct 04, 2024
From Award Travel Hobby to Career
Sep 27, 2024
The Key to Getting the Best Offers... Your Credit Score
Sep 20, 2024
Meet The Mods - Justin Walter
Sep 13, 2024
Challenging the Norms
Sep 06, 2024
Chicago Seminars; Second City, but First in Points and Miles
Aug 30, 2024
Out to SEA Meetup
Aug 23, 2024
Meet The Mods - April Rose
Aug 16, 2024
How to Talk to Muggles
Aug 09, 2024
Around-the-World Adventures
Aug 02, 2024
Meet The Mods - Cameron Laufer
Jul 26, 2024
Life Changes
Jul 19, 2024
Halfway Point - Where Have We Been, Where are We Going?
Jul 12, 2024
Our Airport Lounge Obsession
Jul 05, 2024
Boneheaded Mistakes
Jun 28, 2024
Eye Opening Travel
Jun 21, 2024
Meet The Mods - Randy Clinton
Jun 14, 2024
These Are a Few of Our Favorite Grumps
Jun 07, 2024
Thrifty Travel with Gunnar Olson
May 31, 2024
The Summer of Travel (Pt. 1 - Preparing for Travel)
May 24, 2024
Chicago is a Points/Miles Kind of Town
May 17, 2024
Workhorse Cards (In Our Wallet Right Now)
May 10, 2024
Nice to Meetcha
May 03, 2024
Largest Hotel Chains - Which One's Right for You?
Apr 26, 2024
The Most Powerful Tool in Award Travel
Apr 19, 2024
When to Hold 'em and When to Fold 'em
Apr 12, 2024
How You Doing?
Apr 05, 2024
Points Down Under
Mar 29, 2024
First International Business Class Flight
Mar 22, 2024
Finding Award Space
Mar 15, 2024
Never Earn (Just) One Point Again - Maximizing Spend for the Most Rewards
Mar 08, 2024
Card Strategies - Let’s Get Crafty
Mar 01, 2024
Budget Travel with John Ryan
Feb 23, 2024
Flexible Over Fixed Points
Feb 16, 2024
Oh P2- What Did You Do?
Feb 09, 2024
Close-in Booking with Allison Tackette
Feb 02, 2024
Strategies for Building Healthy Credit and Better Offers
Jan 26, 2024
Award Travel to Forbes
Jan 19, 2024
How Many Points Did We Earn in 2023
Jan 12, 2024
New Year's (Award Travel) Resolutions
Jan 05, 2024
Globetrotting - 197* Countries with AwardWallet's Ryan Smith
Dec 29, 2023
Festivus, Yes! Devaluations, No!
Dec 22, 2023
Rio, Copacabana, and Taylor Swift
Dec 15, 2023
2023 Trip Recaps
Dec 08, 2023
The Lingo
Dec 01, 2023
Building Your Point Balances with Justin Vacula
Nov 24, 2023
How Do You Track All of Your Rewards?
Nov 17, 2023
Let's Get Thrifty
Nov 10, 2023
Unique and Aspirational Flights
Nov 03, 2023
Chicago Seminars and Zorkfest Recap
Oct 27, 2023
QSuites, Longest Flight in the World, and Bali
Oct 20, 2023
Underappreciated Award Currencies
Oct 13, 2023
Starting in Award Travel - Meet the Mods (Sophie Keller)
Oct 06, 2023
I Quit...to Travel
Sep 29, 2023
Skymiles Devaluation & Managing Pre-Trip Chaos
Sep 22, 2023
The Power of Business Cards
Sep 15, 2023
40 Cards - Is it Necessary? Will it Ruin You?
Sep 08, 2023
Next Meetup Announcement & Let's Go Crazy with AT in the TC
Sep 01, 2023
What's in Our Wallet
Aug 25, 2023
Favorite Card Perks and Putting Them ALL Together
Aug 18, 2023
Pancakes and Points
Aug 11, 2023
Which Card Offers the Best Travel Protections
Aug 04, 2023
All the Upgrades & Traveling With Kids Who Have Special Needs
Jul 28, 2023
What Are Points Worth
Jul 21, 2023
LIVE From a Lounge & Is American Airlines Status Worth Chasing
Jul 14, 2023
Favorite Airline, Hotel, and Flexible Point (Loyalty) Programs
Jul 07, 2023
First Class Trip to Croatia and Should You Speculatively Transfer Points
Jun 30, 2023
Crafty Way to See Taylor Swift and Ways to Earn Hotel Free Night Certificates
Jun 23, 2023
Mistakes We've Made
Jun 16, 2023
The Tools We Use for "Free Travel"
Jun 09, 2023
Gorgeous Pictures from Iran and Cards That Earn Status
Jun 02, 2023
Husband Cashes in All Their Points AND Programs To Book Round The World Flights
May 26, 2023
Citi Product Change Rules and Meet the Team: Allison Caraway
May 19, 2023
Best Card for Groceries and The Award Travel Community (Cleveland) Meetup
May 12, 2023
Incredible Trip to New Zealand on Points, Plus a Trip to the Freddie Awards
May 05, 2023
How Often Do you Get a New Card
Apr 28, 2023
Status Matching for More Value
Apr 21, 2023
Avgeeks, Spreadsheets, & Cheatsheets - Meet the Mods (Mike Zaccheo)
Apr 14, 2023
When to Part with Points & Angie's Safari Trip
Apr 07, 2023
Sapphire Lounge Opening, New Bonuses, and Meet the Mods: (Jerod Morales) Business Class for SIX
Mar 31, 2023
Hyatt Changes, AA Domestic First Class Routes, and Meet the Mods (Jackie Wisniewski)
Mar 24, 2023
Get 90,000 Points Before They're Gone & Traveling the World with JT Genter
Mar 17, 2023
Tracking Your Points with AwardWallet, Chasing Hyatt Status, & Partner Award Sweetspots
Mar 10, 2023
Cruise (on Points), Racking and Stacking, and Keep or Kick it to the Curb
Mar 03, 2023
8 Steps to Better Reward Travel
Feb 24, 2023
Creating Memories Through Big AND Small Trips
Feb 17, 2023
Booking a Dream (African Safari) Trip
Feb 10, 2023
Meet Angie & Joe
Feb 03, 2023
Award Travel 101 Returns to the Air Soon!
Jan 25, 2023
Meet the AT 101 Moderators: Toni Perkins
Dec 14, 2019
Juggling, The Onion, and Award Travel with Sam Kemmis from NerdWallet
Nov 22, 2019
FOMO, Too Much Travel, and a NOLA Meetup with Mark from MTM
Nov 08, 2019
Five Different Miles and Points to Great Group Trip
Oct 10, 2019
From Picky Eater to Restaurant Owner: Traveling for Food with Kevin Lawler
Oct 03, 2019
Meet the AT 101 Moderators: Julie Breeze
Sep 26, 2019
Oktoberfest & Booking Awards for Big Events with Spencer Howard
Sep 19, 2019
Event Planning, Building Community & Traveling The World with Brandon Neth
Sep 12, 2019
How to Master Award Travel By Attending Events
Sep 05, 2019
Stand-up Comedy, K-POP and World Travel with Ray Noriega
Aug 29, 2019
10 Things You Don't Know About Jeff
Aug 22, 2019
Getting to Know Jeff’s Better Half + Ultimate Africa Trip
Aug 15, 2019
Delay Compensation And Protect Your Miles From Being Hacked
Aug 08, 2019
We're Deal Hunting This Week!
Aug 02, 2019
We Answer Your Questions & Bailing On Citi
Jul 25, 2019
An Exciting Day for Award Travel 101
Jul 17, 2019
Fireside Chat with Points and Miles Expert Spencer Howard
Jul 11, 2019
Making The Most of Miles And New Ways To Earn on Fuel
Jul 04, 2019
Seven Days in European Luxury
Jun 27, 2019
Best Ways To Save on Car Rentals and Gas
Jun 20, 2019
Getting MileagePlus'd and Spending $10k at a Dollar General
Jun 06, 2019
Bonvoy-age to the Perfect Anniversary Trip
May 30, 2019
The Gas Man Cometh: When Loyalty Programs Behave Badly
May 23, 2019
What It's Like To Marry A Points Nerd
May 13, 2019
Christmas in May! Time to Start Holiday Planning
May 09, 2019
Do We Know How Many Miles an Award Ticket is Going to Cost?
May 02, 2019
Life Behind the Keyboard
Apr 22, 2019
What Happens to Points After Death?
Apr 15, 2019
Never Pay Full Price for Gas
Apr 08, 2019
Marriott May Bonvoy You But Still get The Points
Apr 01, 2019
Can I Redeem Miles for Ambulance Rides?
Mar 25, 2019
Meet A Points and Miles Addict That's Afraid of Flying
Mar 19, 2019
Marriott Bonvoy And The Struggle Bus
Mar 19, 2019
How To Win Your Battle With Points and Miles
Mar 19, 2019
Intro to the Award Travel 101 Podcast
Mar 04, 2019