Trent Swanson

Generally, these award charts are static in terms of price, don't change very much.

From time to time, there's an overnight inflation or a price increase, which you have to watch out for.

But if you're loyal to the right programs that have a low propensity to do that, you're somewhat, I guess, immune from inflation.

Well, you know, we as a test method last year, we earned advantage executive platinum, like the highest status except for concierge key, which is invite only.

And so we did it by flying zero miles.

On American?

Right.

Tell them how you did that.

So they're Americans Program Rewards, and Delta's getting more this way.

They have partnerships anywhere from meal kits to hoteliers to different tangential travel companies to muffin manufacturers.

So if you're a partner ecosystem and you spend your money using a Citi AA card, you will earn this concept of loyalty points.

And if you reach $150,000, is it?

you become city executive platinum.

So I found a way to,

by looking at all their partners and all their price lists of their stuff.

And I did, okay, combination of what's the cheapest, what's the most utility to the family.

So don't buy junk just to get that.

To buy something that has high utility to the family and which gives you the biggest multiple of those points.

So I built like a little three-way algorithm and I found out a technique where I could buy over and over and over again.

And we made executive platinum.