Frequent Flyer Master – Chris Guillebeau

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The revolution to democratize travel will help you:

• Earn up to 200,000 Frequent Flyer miles a year without flying
• Use miles to book free travel anywhere in the world
• Repeat.

The Travel Revolution: How to Visit 100+ Countries and Counting

Thanks for checking out the Frequent Flyer Master project. If we haven’t met before, my name is Chris, and I’m on a personal quest to visit every country in the world. So far I’ve been to 141 180—now almost done! On average, I visit 20 new countries a year, in addition to a lot of places I keep going back to year after year.

Everyone always asks, “How much does it cost?” Well, I’ll tell you.

To be fair, I do spend a decent portion of my income on travel. It’s something that I’ve deliberately chosen to value, and I have no regrets about choosing to invest in seeing the whole world.

However, I also have a not-so-secret method of arranging about half of my flights around the world: I use a war chest of Frequent Flyer Miles. A lot of them, in fact, on eight different airlines and all three airline alliances.

Between earning and redeeming, over the past year I’ve been through well over half a million miles. My current balance is 676,583 miles in eight accounts – and if you’d like to see the detailed proof, watch this 7-minute video or check out the screenshots below (click to enlarge).

(Note that about 50% of these miles have been earned without flying and without credit cards. I travel a lot, but even if I didn’t, I’d still earn a lot of miles.)

I have no shame when it comes to feeding my mileage addiction. I’ve carried $8,000 in one-dollar coins to the bank (long story, you’ll learn more in the guide), gone to a hair-loss clinic for a free consultation that included 20,000 Delta SkyMiles, signed up for 13 credit cards just to get the mileage bonuses, and much more.

But Enough About Me… How Does this Help YOU?

Perhaps you’re not as travel crazy as me. (OK, you’re probably not.) But that’s alright—even if you don’t travel very often and don’t want to get your head examined in exchange for free flights, I’m assuming you’d still like to head out of town once in a while.

If you’re excited about travel as an adventure or lifestyle choice (like me), you can be as active in chasing down miles as I am and accumulate a big balance of 100,000 or more, probably in less than a year. If you DON’T travel that often or aren’t interested in seeing the world, you can still earn enough miles to travel once or twice a year for free.

In fact, that’s really the most important message: the opportunity to travel creates freedom.

When you can travel for nearly free, you have a lot more freedom than when you’re stuck at home. Even if there’s just one place in the world that you’d like to visit, travel hacking with Frequent Flyer miles can get you there within a year.  

Also, it’s not just about the one-time thing. After you earn a free ticket this year, I have no doubt you can do the same next year. If there’s more than one person in your household, you can earn more than one ticket. So while Frequent Flyer Master is NOT a continuity program (you’ll only pay once and there are no recurring charges), I fully expect you’ll be able to benefit from it for years to come.

By the way, what IS Frequent Flyer Master? Without further ado, here it is.

Introducing Frequent Flyer Master: Your guide to an overflowing mileage account that allows you to travel anywhere

This is our latest Unconventional Guide, and probably the last one I’ll ever write by myself as I move on to new projects. I haven’t held anything back—this guide contains literally everything I know about creative travel using Frequent Flyer Miles.

A Few of the Topics We’ll Cover:

• The Big Opportunities that can quickly add 15,000, 20,000, or 30,000 miles at one time
• Redeeming Miles for High-Value Awards
• Opportunities for Southwest, United, British Airways, American, and 8 other airlines
• Goal-Setting and Mileage-Earning for the Travel Rewards that matter the most to YOU
• Mileage Mall and Finance Bonuses to help you earn miles for things you already buy
• The Cost of Free Flights (and how to limit it)
• The Best First and Business Class Mileage Redemptions
• What to Do when the Airline Says No
• How to Get Help if You Don’t Want to Do this Yourself
• Mileage Optimization
• How to bypass outsourced (and often unhelpful) airline customer support

Frequent Flyer Master includes the following resources:

A detailed, 60-page travel hacking manual written in several different countries and on more than a few airplanes.

After I wrote an exhaustive outline based on my own experiences, I asked for input from other expert travelers—from my site, from journalists, from the FlyerTalk forums, and heard even more stories, including these:

• The story of Aaron, who earned 250,000 miles in one program without ever getting on a plane. (When he finally did, he flew First Class to Australia thanks to the miles.)
• The story of Sean, who took his dad to Ireland and Scotland in Virgin Atlantic’s Upper Class cabin thanks to a nice bonus from American Express Membership Rewards points
• The story of Jamie, who redeemed so many coins from the U.S. mint (65,000) in exchange for miles that her bank asked her to schedule an appointment before making the next drop-off

I’ve added many of these stories (and accompanying tips) to the guide, so you’ll benefit not only from my experience but also from other non-conformist world travelers.

A 20-minute audio download (will work on both PC and Mac computers) that covers evergreen strategies of mileage earning + redeeming

A 4-part report on Priceline Booking Strategies to help you book discount hotels to go with all the free flights you’ll be taking

At least six free updates with additional travel hacking opportunities over the next six months. See below on why the updates are so important.

Why the Updates Are So Important

We offer an ongoing update series for all of our products. Art & Money, for example, now has an update series that is longer than the original product. For this project, however, the update series is even more important due to the rapidly-changing nature of the mileage industry. With these updates, I’ll be focusing on late-breaking news and travel hacks you can use to get more miles and more perks, usually just by filling out a web form.

A few examples of recent travel hacks I’ve taken advantage of are listed below. It’s hard to say exactly what the Frequent Flyer Master updates will include, but I’d expect them to be comparable to these recent opportunities:

• Complimentary Elite Status on your choice of Star Alliance airlines (United, Air Canada, Lufthansa, Air New Zealand, etc.)
• $40 Hilton Hotels credit (with seemingly no limit on multiple requests)
• 10,000 Delta SkyMiles or 10,000 Air Canada Aeroplan points bonus
• A new 30,000 miles opportunity for British Airways

In short, Frequent Flyer Master is a great product, priced well below market value. I’m proud to have my name on it, and I know it will help a lot of people. To make it even more fun, though, I decided to create the best possible guarantee I could think of. Here’s everything you need to know about the surprisingly low cost and the iron-clad guarantee.

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