Brian Kelly

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Morning Brew Daily · The Points Guy: Airlines Make More Money Selling Miles Than Flying Planes · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

To answer your question, it's funny because at every point in time, every year, there's always so many people saying points are dead.

In 2010, when I started the Points Guy, which as we have foresight now to look back, things were actually really great, but people called it dead, blackout dates, you can't use points anymore, all these crybabies.

And when I started the Points Guy, I finally was like, okay, all these moronic travel experts who don't even know points going on Good Morning America saying points are dead, it's all blackout dates.

It was actually the heyday

But people just needed to learn how to like, you know, in the airline websites, I mean, in 2026, they're still broken.

In 2010, you couldn't really book awards.

So it was complicated, but there has always been opportunity for those who decide to spend a little bit of time and learn the system.

And that is the same today.

Today, I would argue that it's the platinum age even better because you can now earn points on rent, mortgage, all of these crazy categories that we could only dream about in 2010.

So the industry is evolving.

At the same time, there's inflation happening.

So if you just look at one piece of the points puzzle, you might say, oh, flights today are just so much more expensive, it's not worth it.

But that's not the case.

You just need to work a little bit harder.

I mean, there's just incredible competition.

I mean, the fact that today we've got Chase as a behemoth, you know, and, you know, the Sapphire Preferred helped launch the points guy.

And in 2016, because I had been working with Chase for years as a trusted partner, I

The points guy was the exclusive launch partner for the Sapphire.

I knew about that product months in advance and we worked with them to make that viral.

It ran out of metal.

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