Awesome resource on this perk! I’m saving it for when longer vacations are on the horizon for me and my family. I’m not ambitious enough to plan a trip to Europe while my little guy is still a toddler, hoping he doesn’t try to break into the cockpit when he inevitably plans that one moment escape on a 10+ hour flight haha
We did this once to go to HNL - we booked a business class ticket of SAL-IAH-HNL using less miles than the same IAH-HNL flight, flew down to SAL the night before on a greatly reduced $18 fare, and then flew SAL-IAH, overnight in IAH, then IAH-HNL
I just used the excursionist to get a book a VIE-CAI-DXB-VIE flight for two with a stops in Cairo and Dubai. It added an extra $32.20 in fees, but it was 5k less miles than a round trip VIE-DXB and we'll get to see the pyramids.
I really enjoy channels that put up visuals while going into in-depth explanations. For some reason this is lost on a lot of other travel youtubers. Subscribed and I'll be checking out some of your other videos too
Lani, I used up all my United miles when there was a rumored deval in 2023. I’m sitting on a whopping 4,000 miles left. Maybe I will use a 5/24 slot to get a card to boost up my points balances. As always great video and very well laid out. The Excurionist perk is one even experienced points/miles pros need help understanding all the rules. Lastly graphics, and editing are superb
Lani, I've been resistant to getting US airline cards beyond the lone Delta card I have. But you're causing me to rethink United. Don't do that, I already have it all figured out. Please stop making me rethink my strategy!
