- Air Canada Aeroplan will devalue in June. The churnosphere is largely blaming this on rising oil prices which I think is a contributing factor, but I believe a bigger factor is United exerting pressure on its partners for price parity, one such datapoint is here. The changes:
– Atlantic business redemptions rising 5,000 – 10,000 miles on average
– Atlantic first redemptions rising 10,000 miles
– Pacific business redemptions rising 2,500 – 10,000 miles on average
– Pacific first redemptions rising 10,000 miles
Some of the edge cases have prices going down, and some have higher than 10,000 mile increases too. - Avianca LifeMiles also devalued over the weekend:
– Some partner business redemptions rising 15%
– Some partner economy redemptions rising 21%
Again, this honestly reeks of United. - The generic Blue Business Plus and Blue Business Cash links currently have no-lifetime language (NLL) targeted offers:
– Blue Business Plus: 75,000 Membership Rewards after $6,000 spend in four months
– Blue Business Cash. $750 after $6,000 spend in four months
Both cards have no annual fee, and these offers are not available via referrals. - Hyatt’s May 20th category changes have been announced, and their point devaluation is happening on the same date. I hope it goes without saying, but book speculative stays now.
- Stop & Shop, Giant, and Martins have 10x points on Lowes cards through Thursday. Giant Food stores on the other hand are only earning 6x because the corporate overlords hate Maryland, I can only assume because one of the corporate executives has a shellfish allergy.
- Staples stores have fee-free $200 Mastercard gift cards through Saturday, limit nine per transaction.
These are Pathward / BlackHawk Network gift cards. - The Delta SkyMiles shopping portal has a promotion for 500 bonus miles with $100+ in purchases at giftcards.com, or I guess if you’re basic any other store on the portal works too.
Happy Monday!
Souvenir button available at Giant Food regional corporate headquarters.