Be Nice or Get Out of the Way

Back to Basics of the Week

• Status Highlight Number 5: Delta Airlines 

 

Viewer questions 

• What’s your 2025 prediction for each of the big issuers? Chase, AMEX, WF,  Citi,Cap1 and Barclays. I know Barclays isn’t a “big issuer”, but I smell change is coming - Jason S
• If Chase cut their affiliate program and referral bonuses, do you think collectively as a community we would care about 5/24 nearly as much? What percentage of Chase fanboys do you think would turn on them? - K1d_Cat37
• If you had a life event (maybe you need to assume a caretaker role, etc) that severely limited your ability to travel for a few years, what would you do as it relates to credit card strategy? Would you continue to accumulate or convert to cashback. If cashback what are some cards you’d seriously consider adding to the rotation? - AP 
• Aisle or window seat? - Keith S 

News Round-Up

• Rotating Categories in Q1 (Discover & Chase)

Topics 

• Matt
  • What’s the best two card setup for you in 2025 (as follows): What’ll be driving your point acquisition; what makes Travel Day easiest; what’ll be the first two cards you let go of in 2025? 
• Lani
  
  • Per last episode, rejection sucks. 
  • Tariq got rejected and I hit pop-up jail (but broke free!)
  • Pop-up jail sucks. 5/24 sucks. Whatever Capital 1 does with applications suck.
  • I think we’re all at a place where we can say, “Do I really need another card?” 
  • Upon a denial or rejection, what would you do next? Try to get it overturned? Rethink your life? What would it take for you to just accept it and move on
• Tariq
  • If you could choose a city to live solely based on how well it would work with your travel game preferences, which would you pick, and why?
• RJ
  • How do you handle travel delays, tracking flights, contingency planning when things go wrong on the road?