Episode Details

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Airlines are quietly punishing one-way bookings again, with Kyle Potter documenting examples across countless airports, and it comes with a mystery: Delta calendars showing the exact same "lowest" price every single day for months. We get into what booking a round trip cost Mark on his Singapore trip, whether shared pricing software deserves a closer look, and why Frontier is suddenly the only airline behaving. Then a genuinely useful how-to: adding your American number to an Alaska Atmos booking so your status perks follow you, including the one mistake that locks the wrong number in and the earning trade-off to consider first. Mark maps out his Summit card companion cert rotation, we break down the increased Capital One Venture offer and the FU points philosophy behind it, and Emirates unveils the first premium economy seat that looks designed on purpose: motorized recline, a motorized privacy divider, wireless charging, and one big retrofit catch. Would you book premium economy over saving the miles? Let us know in the comments.

Episode Guide:

• 0:00 Welcome to MTM Travel
• 1:03 Airlines Are Punishing One-Way Bookings
• 2:33 When a Round Trip Burned Mark in Bangkok
• 4:07 Delta's Suspiciously Flat Calendar Prices
• 7:10 In Defense of Delta (Sort Of)
• 8:12 The Redheaded Safety Video Celebrity
• 10:16 Add Your AA Number to an Atmos Booking
• 14:30 Replenishing Atmos: Cards & Companion Certs
• 18:39 Capital One Venture: 75K + a $300 Hotel Credit
• 22:52 Emirates Reinvents Premium Economy
• 27:32 Final Thoughts

Links

• One-way penalty - https://thriftytraveler.com/news/travel/one-way-vs-round-trip-analysis/
• Adding AA to Alaska booking - https://milestomemories.com/add-alaska-atmos-booking-to-american-airlines/
• AA to Atmos - https://milestomemories.com/atmos-rewards-loyalty-program/
• Emirates premium economy - https://onemileatatime.com/news/emirates-new-premium-economy-seat/
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