88. Southwest Rapid Rewards is Changing: Here’s What You Need to Know with Lyn Mettler
Point Me To First Class
Devon Gimbel MD
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Lyn Mettler is a longtime travel journalist who has cracked the code on flying her family of four for free, going from one car trip a year to six free flights annually. Through her Families Fly Free podcast and membership, she teaches others her simple system for maximizing Southwest Rapid Rewards.
In this episode, Lyn breaks down the recently announced changes to the Rapid Rewards program, including the introduction of assigned seating and new international partnerships. She shares her predictions on how these updates will impact the travel experience and offers tips for making the most of your points under the new system.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average expenses to travel the world. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm your host, Devin Gimble, and I believe that your expenses are your greatest untapped asset, if you know how to leverage them. |
| 0:18.3 | Ready to dive into the world of credit card points and miles so you can travel more, |
| 0:21.9 | travel better, and travel often. |
| 0:23.7 | Let's get started. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the PointeMeet to First Class podcast. |
| 0:34.5 | On today's episode, we are going to be taking a closer look at Southwest Airlines. |
| 0:39.0 | Known for their low-cost fairs, generous, free baggage policy and coveted companion pass. |
| 0:44.3 | Southwest is a popular airline that services more than 100 destinations across the United States, |
| 0:49.5 | Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Southwest and their Rapid Rewards program are known for doing |
| 0:55.5 | things a little bit differently than their domestic airline counterparts, and they recently |
| 1:00.0 | garnered a lot of attention with the announcement of some upcoming changes that will go into |
| 1:04.5 | effect in 2025. I've invited Southwest expert Lynn Metler back to the podcast to take a closer look at these changes, |
| 1:12.3 | including what to expect, how they might impact your future travel experiences on the airline, |
| 1:17.9 | and who stands to benefit from these changes the most. |
| 1:21.2 | Lynn is a longtime travel journalist for the U.S. News and World Report, |
| 1:24.9 | The Today Show, MSN, and others, and has been writing about travel and |
| 1:28.8 | interviewing experts for years. In 2015, she discovered how to fly her family of four free to all |
| 1:35.4 | the places she'd been writing about, going from one car trip a year to flying free six times a year |
| 1:40.9 | around the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. Because this system worked so well |
| 1:45.6 | and was so simple, she knew she had to share it with others. Through her family's fly-free podcast and |
| 1:50.9 | membership, she now teaches hundreds of families this same simple system. Now, I don't know anybody who |
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