Frequent Miler on the Air · Monday, August 10, 2026
The Frequent Miler team discusses strategies for traveling with friends or family who don't actively participate in points and miles programs. Greg suggests using personal points and either arranging a quid pro quo or charging a reasonable rate, often based on the portal redemption value, while Nick mentions offering a 'super good rate' that is well below the cash cost.
“What what I've done a number of times is use my own points for my friends. Um, and then either either do some kind of quid pro quo like, you know, they get the rental car and I'm getting the hotel or whatever. Um, or charge them basically a reasonable rate for the points.”
“Uh, no, similar. I, you know, I don't do a lot of traveling with friends, but with family members that aren't points people, we do. And, uh, we just have them pay like a super good rate for the hotel. I don't even worry about getting reasonable redemption value for the points. Just something that's way below whatever it would have cost them to go somewhere.”