“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.”
Everything I’ve learned about frequent flier miles and other travel hacks, I learned from Chris Guillebeau. Chris runs the massively popular blog The Art of Non-Conformity, all about unconventional strategies for business and life, and I literally get my hands on every product he puts out.
Chris has traveled the globe, earning his own way with his online business, with the goal of visiting every country in the world. He’s already been to 151 countries! So if there’s one person you should be getting your travel advice from, it’s Chris Guillebeau.
Frequent Flyer Master is a detailed manifesto that will put you on the fast track to becoming a travel expert yourself, giving you all the insider tips and travel hacks to get the better of the airlines, find the best deals, and use Frequent Flyer miles to travel anywhere in the world nearly for free!
The guide comes with a detailed, 40-page travel hacking manual, filled with detailed strategic and tactical info on how to get started, as well as outlines for 8 different kinds of businesses you can set up. Along with the book are a 20-minute audio download with more evergreen strategies for earning & redeeming miles, and an expert 4-part report on Priceline Booking Strategies to help you nab discount hotels on your travels.
I purchased Chris’ original guides, the Unconventional Guide To Discount Airfare (since discontinued) and Travel Ninja in 2009 before he rolled them into this new comprehensive product for expert travelers, and I have to say the audio lessons alone are worth the price of this guide!
What you’ll learn with Frequent Flyer Master:
- Earning miles and cashing them out for free travel
- The Big Opportunities that can quickly add 15,000 to 30,000 miles at a time!
- The fast-track to airline elite status
- Redeeming Miles for High-Value Awards
- What to Do when the Airline Says No
How one reader amassed over 300,000 miles
Since learning from Chris, one of my blogger buddies has earned over 300,000 miles, putting some of them to use already for a Business Class ticket from Detroit to Mumbai, India, and another Business Class flight from Bangkok to Warsaw, Poland. Just the value of those two flights alone are worth about $7,000!
Here’s a screengrab of his current mileage balance even after cashing out miles for those 2 Business Class flights, still with over 191,000 miles left:
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My overall thoughts on the guide:
Frequent Flyer Master isn’t 100% perfect. The guide helped me to learn a tremendous amount about award redemption, but I’m still not totally clear on how Chris transfers his award flights from one program into a different partner airline.
And it should be said that the mileage-earning strategies in this book work best for readers from the United States. You’ll get some valuable hacks and ideas from it, but if you’re a traveler outside the U.S., then Frequent Flyer Master might not give you the same results.
But just like all of the Unconventional Guides series, Chris’ guide to master travel hacking is extremely professionally put together, and it’s jam-packed with valuable ideas. Even for someone like me, after traveling and living abroad for awhile now, I always get incredible insights and new strategies from Chris.
Why you should buy Frequent Flyer Master
The bottom line is: for just 49 bucks, you’re getting a guaranteed free roundtrip domestic ticket, otherwise Chris will give you your money back. Or, if you really apply the lessons in this guide, you’ll be looking at thousands of dollars in international travel for just the cost of taxes.
Do you want to fly for free? Do free Business Class upgrades sound nice? Click here to get your copy of Frequent Flyer Master now!
If you want to go further, make sure to also check out the Travel Hacking Cartel, and Chris’ other Unconventional Guides.
