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MTM Travel - The Fun Side of Points & Travel!

May 14, 2026

Capital One is facing a lawsuit over canceled rewards, and Shawn and Mark get into the bigger problem with banks treating points like real currency when it helps...


Best Transferable Points Ranked, Huge Capital One Lawsuit & How We Evaluate Retention Offers!

May 14, 2026

Capital One is facing a lawsuit over canceled rewards, and Shawn and Mark get into the bigger problem with banks treating points like real currency when it helps...


May 7, 2026

MTM Travel - May 7, 2026

Chase has a massive new Sapphire Reserve offer, but the rest of the episode shows why the points world feels less predictable than it used to. Shawn and Mark break down Rakuten's strange but useful Bank of America and Bilt stack, Citi ending ThankYou point sharing, the refreshed AT&T Points Plus...


May 5, 2026

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Spirit Airlines is gone, and even travelers who avoided Spirit may feel it in their wallets. Shawn and Mark talk through the fallout for cheap flights, the JetBlue and Frontier merger mess, and why low-cost...


Apr 30, 2026

Episode Description

Hyatt used to be the easy button for a lot of points and miles travelers. Transfer Chase points, book Hyatt, chase Globalist and enjoy the perks. That strategy is getting harder to defend after Hyatt’s five-tier award chart and another round of category changes.

In this episode Shawn and Mark talk...