Tuesday Whoppers

1. Do this now: Register for 6,000 bonus Aeroplan miles on “select” Air Canada flights to Canada. Based on the terms and conditions, it looks like “select” flight mostly means paid non-basic economy flights booked after registration, and for travel through March 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM.
   
   What happens if your flight is delayed past 11:59 PM on March 31, 2025? I dunno, but I image it wouldn’t be fun to clean up. (Thanks to Vince for sending me the correct promotion end date)
   
2. Meijer MPerks has $10 off of the purchase price of $150 or more in Mastercard gift cards through Saturday. A few tips:
   
   – There are Chase Offers and BankAmeriDeals for Meijer currently floating around
   – You have to clip the coupon in your MPerks account
   – This looks like the kind of deal that you can reclip after buying to repeat
   – Sometimes Meijer gas stands also sell gift cards
   
   Meijer sells Pathward and Sunrise gift cards.
   
3. Delta Stays and Delta Car Rentals have a promotion for MQD earning on hotels and car rentals booked directly through the portal by September 30 for travel by October 31, earning at one mile per dollar spent. A few random thoughts:
   
   – You can book VRBO bookings through Delta Stays
   – You can list things on VRBO, and sometimes VRBO runs promotions
   – Delta Platinum and Delta Reserve American Express cards have a Stays credit
   – For upcoming travel where status doesn’t matter, you might as well earn MQD
   – Delta Stays is not the same thing as Delta Vacations, don’t confuse them
   – Delta gift cards do not work at Delta Stays
   
   Always be probing. Am I playing this one, asked no-one? No, because I have Diamond through 2030 thanks to prior shenanigans and as a result MQDs are effectively worthless for me until then.
   
4. Delta Vacations has a tiered $75-$250 off of a flight+hotel booking promotion that seems available for all Delta Medallion members using promo code SMMED2024 booked by January.
   
   Again, remember that Delta Vacations is different than Delta Stays even though they’re technically the same company, so your AmEx credits won’t work here because I guess late-stage capitalism, or something.
   
5. Stephen Pepper at GCG has a thoughtful opinion piece on Pepper Rewards. As usual, my strategy with Pepper is to avoid floating more (rewards in this case), than I could stand to lose.
   
   Side note: John Reeder challenged me once on my position about “floating what I could afford to lose”, and his counter-point is that in advantage play, the Kelly betting method governs your bets (or as an analog, money at risk) in order to maximize potential profit and indirectly minimize the risk of loss. There’s something there for churners; stand-by for a future post on the topic. Or don’t; you do you.

AirCanada Aeroplan’s customer service center, but as a bedroom.