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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00:00 What are some of the most common mistakes that you see people make?
00:03 The mistakes I see people make are not accruing miles or a lot of people will say,
00:06 "Oh, the frequent flyer mile game, it's so expensive these days."
00:09 And that is true to an extent.
00:10 So, you know, the big three airlines, Delta, United and American,
00:14 they have increased the amount of miles you need to go.
00:16 Sometimes eye-poppingly so.
00:18 Delta is known for having 300,000 miles plus one way to Europe.
00:23 But here's the trick, people.
00:24 Don't put all your miles and points in those airlines.
00:27 Real people in the know, so use credit cards.
00:30 Be loyal to your credit card that allows you to transfer to a lot of different partners.
00:34 Because, for example, you want to fly Delta, you can fly Delta business class.
00:37 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.
00:44 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,
01:00 Air Canada Aeroplan, Air France Flying Blue, Virgin Atlantic,
01:04 and snag deals with those programs because they have lower thresholds
01:07 for the amount of miles needed.
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