- Hyatt sent targeted spending bonuses via email and in-app pop-up yesterday. Offers reported:
– 1,000 – 1,500 bonus points for night multiples, up to 15-30 nights total
– 20% back on award stays, up to 150,000 points spent / 30,000 points back
– double or triple elite nights on up to five or ten nights
– a free night certificate after a two or three night stay
– double or triple points on up to 30,000 points earned
Note that many of these require registration by June 6 and have a 90 day window for the promotion runtime, so it probably only makes sense to register the day before your first stay, as long as that’s before June 6. There is a collection of links here, but if you’re not targeted they won’t work. - Southwest’s schedule is now open through March 5, 2025. On an related news item, if you book and board a Southwest flight, you’ll be flying Southwest so know what you’re getting yourself into. (Are they perfectly fine? I mean, mostly – but that’s not high praise.)
- The American Express Business Platinum card has a new 300,000 Membership Rewards sign-up bonus after $20,000 spend in three months. To find it, you may need to try all the gyrations:
– Go incognito
– Try different browsers, like Brave, Qikfox, Firefox, or Edge
– Try both desktop and mobile devices
– Connect to a VPN in various cities
– Burn an old green employee card in effigy
(Thanks to Heather) - American Express has a new version of the Delta Reserve and Delta Reserve Business card that’s partially made out of the airframe of an old 747. Existing cardholders can request that version of the card by using the app’s “replace card” functionality, and if you’re not an existing card holder but you really want one, you can get one with AmEx and still be on good terms by either:
– Applying for a new card, never hitting the sign-up bonus, and closing it within 30 days for no annual fee
– Upgrading an existing card to a Delta Reserve without an upgrade bonus, getting the 747 card, then downgrading back to your existing card
Of course if you care enough to run through all of this just for a card made out of an alloy that partially once had metal from a 747’s airframe, you’re an avgeek. Sorry, not sorry. - Kroger online has 5% off of Visa and Mastercards with promo code SPRING24. I was only able to get this to work with physical gift cards, but I could get 10 total cards in a single order with the promotion applied.
These are US Bank cards, and you’ll earn fuel points for the purchase too. It won’t code as grocery though. - Staples stores have fee free $200 Visa gift cards starting Sunday and running through the following Saturday, limit eight per transaction.
These are Pathward gift cards, so have a liquidation plan in place. - Kroger stores have 4x fuel points promotion on fixed value Visa and Mastercards and third party gift cards, but this one is today only. (Thanks to GCG)
- Ramp Capital’s corporate charge card program has launched travel partner points transfers with a transfer ratio of 1 ramp point = 0.667 mile. Like the card’s flat 1.5x points per dollar earning structure, the travel partners are completely uninspired. I only bring it up today because reading a couple of sentences about it here will save you from reading a couple of pages about it on a dozen other blogs only to figure out that it’s probably not worth your time. (Thanks to sammyph200)
Have a nice weekend!
The room where it happened: Ramp Capital’s inspiration room for finding airline transfer partners.