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‘Points Guy’ Explains How To Get The Most Value On Airline Tickets, Flyer Miles | Megyn Kelly TODAY - YouTube
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Kelly it's great to have you here today
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we have got one of the most famous
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mentalists in the country owes Perlman
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this guy is going to blow your mind and
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make you believe in psychic powers plus
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Elizabeth - Elizabeth High School she's
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gonna be here with some New Year's Eve
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cocktails for you maybe a hangover cure
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as well we'll see and low cash is gonna
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be performing live fire miles yeah and
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and have no idea how to cash them in no
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idea I feel like they make it
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intentionally hard you know with so many
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airlines travel websites blackout dates
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restrictions of up about using those
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points can be very confusing and here to
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help us get a little bit more bang for
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our travel bucks is Brian Kelly he's the
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CEO and founder of the website
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come on over first of all do you believe
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as I believe that is by design that is
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so hard to cash in those points it is
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hard to cash in the points but
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definitely not impossible I mean I I
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think this year I've saved $70,000 on
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flights just by redeeming for her Wow
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that's it anyone can do it too I mean I
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think the thing is people just give up
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you know people think oh I can never use
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my points but you can and they're so
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valuable all right number one you say
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that there's some website that can
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really help us what's that well I think
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so there's two different things I want
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to talk today one is saving on airfare
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right because even if you don't have
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points who hates paying too much money
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to the Airlines for airfare right so the
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biggest thing and searching for airfare
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so there's just a website it's free I'm
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obsessed it's called Google flights and
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what Google flights will let you do who
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here has ever been like I just need to
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get away I don't care where it like if
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it's freezing cold you're like I just
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need to get to a beach so Google flights
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has a map feature where you can say ok
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I'm leaving from Chicago and it'll show
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you all the cities where you can fly and
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the prices that you can go so you may
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see a city in Florida that you've never
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been to and my tip is go somewhere new
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go don't you know don't keep going to
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the same old spots that are really
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expensive even Puerto Rico it's back up
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for business it may not be exactly what
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it was but let's support Puerto Rico you
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also say I know that we should we should
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try booking on on foreign websites is I
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would have websites for an airline so
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this is the crazy thing ok so here's
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this is like an insider tip and it may
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take a second to wrap your head around
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it but there are websites the u.s.
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dollar is really really strong right now
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so if you book in foreign currencies so
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here's an example say you want to go to
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London New York to London on Norwegian
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air so they fly to tons of places where
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we just like one of the top like
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expanding Airlines in the u.s. they've
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got really cheap fares so it's three
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hundred ninety dollars if you booked in
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US dollars if you click that your
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country is Norway and it will change the
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website into Norwegian you can save 20
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percent by paying in Norwegian Crona
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and this is totally legal like this is
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totally legal people always like trust
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me
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done it so literally a $390 ticket drops
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instantly same exact flight to 322 do
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you navigate the language Oh Google
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Translate it's actually pretty simple it
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sounds crazy but it's like saving money
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it's like putting you know it's like
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saving 20 percent that is very good to
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know yeah all right what about the the
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dreaded non-refundable ticket okay that
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you know you're gonna lose money if you
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can't no but sometimes you have to
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cancel so here's the thing with airline
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tickets so the airlines are gonna charge
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you $250 to change your ticket it could
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be more than the actual price I've
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actually called the airline they're like
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you owe us money to cancel the ticket
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right I refuse but what I've done is so
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I booked flights all the time never if
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you know your tickets gonna get
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cancelled wait because if there's even
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so the airlines can change the schedule
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around they do that all the time even if
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they change the schedule by five minutes
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you can call and be like no that
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five-minute change doesn't work for me
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and they'll refund you so then if
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there's a but you're playing the odds
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and you know you have to cancel you're
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not gonna show your trip you're betting
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that they're gonna do so if you're gonna
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cancel and lose all the value you've
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already lost so watch that flight if
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there's a big Blizzard coming you can
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call and say hey there's this Blizzard
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coming do you mind canceling and you
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would be shocked and especially I mean
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my main tip today is be nice if you're a
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jerk I mean that's in life right but you
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would be I've called airline agents you
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know you charm them a little bit and you
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just say look I know today's been crazy
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for you but if you ask it never hurts to
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ask and the same thing in the airport
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like if your flights cancelled I know
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you want to just scream at that person
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and I see it all the time but the nice
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people win if you're actually nice to
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those people who work so hard they don't
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get paid a lot of money and trust me
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they don't want your flight to be
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canceled you know so change your mindset
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and you can get that last seat on the
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next one time my husband and I are
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checking into a hotel with our kids our
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young kids and they had given away our
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room even though we had paid already for
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the night in advance we'd already paid
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and we had so we have three little kids
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we don't know where we're gonna go what
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we're gonna do and I got a little rude
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with the woman who was rude with me she
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was not apologetic and eventually they
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found us some other room whatever so we
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went to a room it was good we got in I
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went back down I said I'm sorry I
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just dressed out my three kids and I
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didn't mean to be and then she was nice
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it was like I felt better and she felt
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better sometimes you know you you're
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better angels aren't there when you need
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them and then they come they come later
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it doesn't matter who you are hotels can
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still walk you from that's what we call
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it in the industry you're getting walked
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so if you're checking in late at a hotel
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always call and say hey I'm checking in
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late because that's the day goes on they
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think oh this person's not going to show
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up let's charge someone else let's talk
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about points yes points because that's
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what I don't know how to catch them and
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it's overwhelming to me yes so points
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you need to think of points as currency
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right so when you fly everyone here like
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put your frequent flyer count on your
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flight right so then a lot of people I'm
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not saying you're a points hoarder a lot
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of people have poison that's what we
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call people who have crew points and
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then never use yes but points are really
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valuable and the thing is there's a lot
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of myths around them people think they
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can't use them they won't even check but
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even when you check an airline websites
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you use your miles airline websites lie
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that may come as a shock but they're not
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showing you all of the award
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availability so airlines have partners
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so they have alliance partners and all
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these other partners but the systems
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don't talk to each other so if you're
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searching on a certain airline website
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to go to Hong Kong you know there may be
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an Asian carrier that has award
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availability but it doesn't show up on
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that Airlines website how do you figure
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that get up and call I know it's crazy
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to think about in this day and age
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calling an airline but being nice and
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calling an airline and specifically say
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can you please search on partners and
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here's the crazy search on partners so
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call up and say I would like you to
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search I'm trying to go to Hong Kong can
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you search on your partner and as nice
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as you are and the more information you
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can give them so if you do a little bit
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of research and you know who those
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partners are to begin with and here's
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the kicker
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when you book using miles on partners
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it's always at the lowest level possible
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so that's another reason why you think
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well why aren't the airline systems
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talking to each other because they don't
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really want you to know that it's the
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cheapest using arrows so I think what
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we've learned here today is you should
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probably have a glass of wine before you
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make a call you should put on some good
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TV to ride you through the three hours
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it's gonna take to get through it and
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maintain you happy yes thank you so much
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that's really helpful
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