71. Horses, Zebras, and Unicorns: Business Class Award Flight Edition (Part 1)
Point Me To First Class
Devon Gimbel MD
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In the world of points travel, you're probably familiar with the concept of a unicorn award. These are flights so rare they might as well be magical, mythical creatures because your chances of seeing one are slim to non-existent. Award flights, especially long-haul business class award flights, are not all created equal in terms of how easy they are to find and book. Premium cabin award flights are like horses, zebras, and unicorns. Some are common, easy to find, and easy to book. Others are unicorns that are rarely seen and impossible to predict but beautiful and magical nonetheless.
When people try to redeem their points for the first time, they have expectations that leave them feeling discouraged when they can't find the flights they want. Sometimes you want a unicorn, but you're better off trying to find a horse or even a zebra. So by the end of this two-part podcast series, you'll be able to identify which award flights are horses, which are zebras, which are unicorns, and which you can get your hands on.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, |
| 0:06.1 | entrepreneurs, and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average |
| 0:09.5 | expenses to travel the world. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm your host, Stephen G Gimble and I believe that your |
| 0:13.4 | expenses are your greatest untapped asset if you know how to leverage them. |
| 0:17.8 | Ready to dive into the world of credit card points and miles so you can travel more, |
| 0:21.6 | travel better, and travel often. Let's get started. points and |
| 0:25.0 | you can travel more, travel better and travel often. |
| 0:34.4 | Hey everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Point Me to First Class podcast. Today we are going to be talking about horses, zebras, and unicorns, business class |
| 0:39.6 | award flight addition. Now if you're wondering what the hell are horses |
| 0:43.6 | eber's and unicorns in the points travel world I am going to tell you. First |
| 0:47.8 | it's important that you understand that this is a totally made up |
| 0:50.0 | construct of mine that's a conflation of a medicine reference and a |
| 0:54.0 | points travel reference but I'm going to try to pull it all together into something that I |
| 0:57.6 | hope makes sense and of course might actually be useful for you all so let me |
| 1:01.8 | explain the references first. During my medical |
| 1:04.8 | school education and residency training there is a saying that was really |
| 1:08.1 | common to hear from more experienced residents or attendings when you were discussing a case and coming up with |
| 1:14.6 | potential diagnoses for a specific patient based on their constellation of symptoms and |
| 1:20.3 | findings and that was when you hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras and basically what |
| 1:27.2 | that meant was that when you were considering all the potential |
| 1:30.1 | diagnoses that could explain a patient's presentation, |
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