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Off-topic but related: https://scottscheapflights.com is _amazing_. The Premium sub is worth every penny...my wife and I will be doing a ton more overseas travel in 2019 purely because of the deals this site finds.

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I got into churning airline miles then manufactured spending (generating spend on credit card to earn miles) and now have over 10 million miles. I also heard one of the biggest groups of manufactured spend are developers within Google.

I belong to a private slack with over 80 folks doing this as a hobby so we can do first class/business class international travel and hotel stays for free.

If anyone is into it as as well and would like to join a private Slack and contribute, hit me up. A big majority of the group are engineers.

NOTE: this group is for advanced folks only who have been doing this for a while. Think "r/churning level 2"

I would be interested but I am in the UK, not the US

@micahgoulart - I am in the US and very interested in getting started. I didnt see how to contact you privately on your profile. My email is diego898 AT gmail DOT com

I'd like to give this a try.

I've started churning (love /r/churning), but have been looking to get into manufactured spending. Would love to join your slack. Email in profile :)

Would definitely be interested. Email should be in my profile.

Hi, this sounds interesting. Would love to be a part of it. Email is kurtosisshah@gmail.com

Interested! Shoot me an email qbaler@gmail.com

Also very interested. Email in profile. Thanks!

Would be very interested -- Will@Cascade.bio

Very interested : public [at] proxmark.com Thanks

Interested to know, please send me details at siva@yopmail.com

Churner, curious for more. Email's in my profile. Thanks!

Super interested in joining this Slack - steve at stevedomin dot com. Thanks!

I'd be very interested in this to pass on to my wife - she's been playing this game for a long time now. My e-mail's in my profile.

I'm interested.

I'd be interested as well, I've written a few private scrapers for *A/OW award search, currently have small scale MS going on, would love to connect with more fellow MS-ers. my email is nopctoday at gmail.

Very interested! sierpinski9321 [at) gmail.com

Love the intersection between engineering and churning. Long time churner at r/churning and flyertalk. james93472@gmail.com

I'm interested in joining your slack group!

would definitely be interested... milan <dot> ramaiya <at> gmail

Very interested. Have been churning for awhile - benmanns at gmail.

Hello, I am interested in this group as well. I was unable to find any contact information in your profile. I can be reached at nick@launchpotato.com . thank you.

I’d be interested in this!

jashua DOT sf AT gmail

I would be interested! the.angrybaby -at- gmail

sign me up too, please. kawfey@gmail.com

Consider me interested as well - email in profile.

very interested, email in profile.

I miss the good old days when manufactured spend was as easy as ordering 10k in sacajawea coins from the treasury.

Me too please. Email is in my profile :)

This Slack group sound awesome - my email is in my profile. :)

Would love to join, Mantas at Vidutis dot com

I'm interested as well -> one23johnson at gmail

Can you say what is churning? How does it differ from manufactured spending?

Super interested. Email in profile. Thanks!

Been a user of r/churning -particularly the weekly MS threads - for a while now. I’d love to chat and contribute to a group with more advanced folks. My email is seanchurns612@gmail.com

I'm interested, please invite. MS is one of my hobbies. alex.897007 at gmail

interested! alexhu1719 at gmail

Please add me ashishb AT ashishb.net

@micahgoulart I'm interested in the slack group - davidmhowe at protonmail

Hey,

i'd be interested as well. could you add me to the slack? thank you

barbadosmercury@protonmail.com

Also off-topic, I would pay a premium for the deals to be pre-searched for my specific cities/dates. I already pay for scotts premium. But would pay even more if I was able to actually have it look at my calendar and see when I could go on these trips. I miss out on too many due to not being quick enough.

I've had the same issue and have been building a tool to further filter and curate flight deals. Right now you can select departure airports and airlines. Date filtering will be coming next in the next 5-7 days if not sooner. https://producthunt.com/posts/altitude

I hope you don't mind the feedback: There's no way I'm signing up for a service that I don't get to try first. See what Scott's is doing: You get a 1/3 of the deals--this whets the appetite.

For a typical overseas trip, how does your (ordinary, non-discounted) airfare generally compare to your food and boarding expenses?

You don't book with Scott's Cheap Flights, it's just an e-mail that says what is on sale and the best way to book. I haven't had any issues not getting a meal or being charged for bags on an international flight using their tips

My assumption is the OP was talking about "food and boarding expenses" in the context of your hotel and food when you reach your destination - e.g. how much is saving on your airfare worth it vs optimising your hotel price.

Yes, I meant food and boarding for the trip, not for the flight. My instinct is that taking "a lot more international travel" due to cheaper airfare will result in spending a lot more money; I don't quite see why the cheaper airfare makes it make sense.

Similarly I use https://www.secretflying.com which has a bit more non-paywalled.

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