Trent Swanson

Two weeks later, I had enough points for these free tickets in hand.

And I thought it was the greatest thing in the world because I thought the Nirvana, the best place to be was flying in a recliner seat on American Airlines for a two-hour flight.

I thought that was the pinnacle because I didn't know.

Total newbie.

So we did it, loved it.

Then I started to think, wait, are these techniques scalable?

such that I can outsize, upsize, upscale, up elegant for similar amount of work.

Can I do that and really make this thing phenomenal?

And so that's how Miles Husband, the hobby was born.

I think the branding came from Darren a couple of years later.

So back in the day, I guess it's going back 12 years now, almost 2012.

Yeah.

So you could achieve loyalty status by the number of stays at a given hotel in a hotel chain.

The amount of dollars per night didn't matter.

It's just, did you get a stay credit?

You compile enough of these stay credits, you get the elite status, which gives you upgrades, big suite rooms, nice big breakfasts, especially internationally.

So there's a technique that used to work, still somewhat does work.

is where you can check in to a hotel and not stay.

So you get a great rate.

You check in, you leave, and you check out by phone or not check out at all, and you just go to your account and you see your elite status credits posting pretty soon.