I’ve split today’s post up into (1) interesting items, and (2) other, I guess?
- Kroger stores have 4x fuel points on third party gift cards other than Amazon and flexible fuel cards, and on fixed value Visa and Mastercard gift cards. Both promotions are running through Tuesday, April 7.
For reasons no one has been able to discern, fuel points are worth quite a bit more than normal right now. - The American Express Graphite charge card has been released, and American Express’s random number generator for the sign-up bonus is in full swing:
– $1,500 (or $2,000) sign-up bonus after $50,000 spend in six months
– $295 annual fee
– 2% cash back everywhere, (except 5% on AmEx Travel flights and hotels)
– Cash back is not convertible to Membership Rewards
If you don’t see the heightened bonus, try VPNs, incognito browsers, mobile, letting the application timeout and reload, or summoning SideShowBob233. This card replaces the infamous Plum card, also a charge card. - Two Incomm gift card sites have fee-free gift cards:
– VanillaGift.com: No purchase fees on Visas with code VGEASTER26
– MasterCardGiftCard.com: No purchase fees on Mastercards with code EASTER26
Clearly this is because of the lack of oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz. - Delta has an award sale to its Asian destinations, but especially Taiwan and Hong Kong, running through today. Economy flights are 30,000-50,000 miles round trip, and in theory there are sale Delta One fares but they’re not exactly widely available so I wasn’t able to verify pricing.
And:
- American Express Business Gold and Business Platinum cards will soon have an annual $300 ChatGPT credit. Before you get excited, they’re likely for the two user $600 annual ChatGPT business plan.
- Cathay Pacific is devaluing long-haul business class redemptions by 3%-5%.
- JetBlue is reportedly shopping around for buyers, despite assuring everyone they weren’t last week. Since United CEO Scott Kirby said just last week that United wasn’t interested in buying JetBlue at all, there’s a good chance that United is currently in advanced discussions with JetBlue (or maybe I’m just cynical about Kirby).
- Bilt added Wyndham as a 1:1 transfer partner. In a sea of bad ideas in travel hacking, transferring more than a de minimus number of Bilt points to Wyndham is a shark sized bad-idea.
Happy Thursday friends!
More shark-sized bad ideas.