The American Express Delta cards have increased offers:
Personal cards: – Personal Gold: 70,000 SkyMiles after $3,000 spend in six months, waived annual fee – Personal Platinum: 90,000 SkyMiles after $4,000 spend in six months – Personal Reserve: 100,000 SkyMiles after $6,000 spend in six months
Business cards: – Business Gold: 90,000 SkyMiles after $6,000 spend in six months, waived annual fee – Business Platinum: 100,000 SkyMiles after $8,000 spend in six months – Business Reserve : 110,000 SkyMiles after $12,000 spend in six months
Cobrand cards like this remain easier to play popup games than non-cobrand cards.
The Chase Marriott Bonvoy cards have new sign-up bonuses, also available via referrals so use those instead:
– Bonvoy Boundless: Five free night certificates, 50,000 points each after $5,000 spend in three months – Bonvoy Bold: 60,000 points and one free night certificate worth up to 50,000 points after $2,000 spend in three months
The Bonvoy Bountiful card, one of the three most ridiculously named Chase Bonvoy cards, has no increased bonus.
Have a nice weekend friends!
The head of Chase’s Bonvoy credit card naming team.
Note that you’ll need a promo code, and reportedly 110662 works, though generally with these any six digit number starting with a ‘1’ also works. (Thanks to DoC)
Science is still trying to determine what the reason for this promotion is. We may never know. We do however know that these cards work better than others for certain big box retailers, in certain circumstances with certain velocity limits.
Note that if you change any flights booked before May 28, you’ll lose the pre-Elliott benefits of those flights like free checked bags, same day changes, and non-expiring paid flight credits.
– San Diego – Las Vegas – Denver – Orlando – New York
Economy flights are 18,750 miles and business flights are 60,000 miles between the US and Europe. Don’t forget train stations for faux-direct flights to Paris or Amsterdam.
Giftcards.com has had a storied past with shopping portals, with rules that spanned the entire distance between “rewards on nothing” and “rewards on everything”, and plenty of stops in-between. Most recently, they’ve only awarded spend on a rolling $20,000 in purchases in a rolling 365 day period. Terms didn’t make it clear about whether that was per loyalty account, per shopping portal, per giftcards.com account, or something else. While science made progress in answering the question, the point is now moot because that weird language is gone. All the major airline shopping portals have reverted to the following terms:
Orders over $2,000.00 are not eligible. To qualify for rewards, you must complete your purchase within the same session you start the purchase without exiting your browser. Opening a new tab or returning later will result in rewards not tracking.
Changing it again is a bold strategy Cotton, we’ll have to see if it pays off for them.
Barclays+[Frontier,JetBlue,Arrival+]
Today, Barclays has both card linked and shopping portal offers for card holders under a program named “Barclays Simple Earn”. Maybe giftcards.com will show up here too? I’ve been able to find press releases about Frontier, JetBlue, and Arrival+ cards, but I’d be surprised if they don’t show up on AA and Hawaiian co-brand cards even though both will soon be leaving the Barclays portfolio.
Barlcays has had “Barclays Card Rewards Boost” for a long time, and from the outside it appears to be run by the exact same technology and backend provider as the US Bank shopping portal. My educated guess is that they’ll use the exact same thing for co-brand cards, so tricks that work at US Bank’s portal will probably work here too. (Thanks to David)
Southwest T-0
Today is the last day for the old Southwest way of doing things. Basically, you’ve got until midnight in who-knows-which timezone to do the following:
Book travel that includes free bags on all fares
Consolidate Ticketless Travel Funds (TTF) now, because they’ll have expirations if issued after today
Book Wanna Get Away or Wanna Get Away+ fares before they pumpkin
Convert LUV vouchers to flight credits which are transferrable and have no expiration
Add any companions to existing reservations to ensure they’ve got old-school benefits too
Thanks to Southwest guru Brian M for the comprehensive list!
Happy Tuesday!
Giftcards.com’s analysis team uses cutting edge technology to calculate its optimum rewards strategy.
The Marcus version of this card had a better bonus and earns 4x everywhere. The Marcus cards will convert to Barclays cards soon, but the earning structure for conversions is unclear.
– $100 statement credit with $1,000+ in online spend – $75 statement credit with $750+ in online spend – 10% back on home improvement spend up to $100 back monthly for May, June, and July
– If you’re shut down at Capital One, getting a Discover card may be a backdoor in – Discover cards may turn into more lucrative Capital One cards – Credit lines at Discover may become transferrable to other Capital One cards – Games that Capital One hates may soon be games that Discover hates
For those with Discover Miles cards, maybe you’ll get lucky and Discover miles will become transferrable to Capital One mileage transfer partners, so hedge your hoard.
The best response gets a free vintage airline postcard of your choice at the thrift store of your choice, paid for by any card of your choice in your current possession.
– Customized Cash: Double cash back in the first year with $2,500 quarterly cap on bonus category earn – Unlimited Cash Rewards: Unlimited 2% base earning instead of 1.5% base earning
It may look like a sleeper, but with the right precious eyes, that second one is an outstanding offer. Also, why mention weeks before June 1? So you can lower credit lines and flush your existing Bank of America portfolio to prepare.
The best options will be cards that convert to BestBuy or Home Depot for the long promotion, or Lululemon, Marshalls, and Apple for the Friday promotion.
Honorary Southwest CMO Brian M also reminds us that you’ve got to book before May 28 to avoid new Southwest’s new bag fees, basic fare classes, flight credit expiration, and other airline castoff ideas.
The newest dress code violation guidelines(*) on Southwest Airlines start on May 28 (*)I assume
“If your JAL Mileage Bank account is less than 60 days old, there will be up to a 7 day hold before you can use JAL miles to book travel.”
It turns out that Bilt is inadvertently teaching us another lesson, which is that unseasoned accounts can often cause you to be unable to use your miles until your account is old enough or until you jump through hoops like:
Having older accounts with some activity mitigates these problems, so when you do your churning spring cleaning, consider seasoning mileage accounts that you may use in the future.
