The Bank of America Atmos Ascent Visa business has a new inflight sourced sign up bonus of 85,000 Atmos miles after $5,000 spend in three months, which is 5,000 miles more than the current public link. The personal card’s similar bonus is still available:
Both require a flight attendant code (not to be confused with the flight attendant code), or most any six digit random number that starts with 10. (Thanks to Remster32)
Alaska has a 15% off of a flight promotional code after signing up for text alerts by texting FLY to 252752 by the end of the day. The code will be delivered tomorrow, and doesn’t work for first class tickets but does work on Hawaiian flights.
– Register at this link, or at the bottom of your ‘My Account’ page – Book a two one-ways or one round-trip by Thursday, non basic economy – Fly by November 15
Existing bookings don’t count. Both paid and award tickets are eligible.
Capital One Shopping has gotten better about recognizing self-referrals, but good hygiene continues to pay dividends.
Singapore Airlines changed award redemption rates. Most rates are going up 5%-10%, though Asia and South Pacific redemptions drop 5% in price. Flights to Africa and the Middle East are getting 10-20% increases, and there’s new, variable pricing for non-saver awards.
PSA to travel bloggers: It’s possible to summarize this sort of thing in less than 1,250 words, I promise.
– $0 annual fee – $35 sign-up bonus after $75+ spend in 30 days – 5% for Walmart+ members or 3% back at Walmart otherwise – 1.5% cash back elsewhere
This card is compelling for scaling buyer’s group activities, at least to the extent that Walmart lets you get away with it and the credit line allows, and also to the extent that Synchrony lets you cycle (they don’t).
– Buy in even multiples of $300 – Try for multiple transactions back-to-back – Look for the lower fee “Everywhere” cards, which despite the name, don’t work everywhere – Cry about Dosh being gone
These are Pathward / BlackHawk Network cards.
Alaska MileagePlan Atmos has free points for residents that live within 75 miles of several cities:
You earn 100 miles per goal scored by your local soccer team for the season, and San Diegans have chances with two teams, probably because one of those teams sucks? Idk, I just work here.
Just: (1) set a reminder in your phone to cancel the automatic renewal of the subscription after the bonus pays out, and (2) be ready for the frustration of figuring out how to take address off of their email spam list. It sounds easy, but it’s really not. (Thanks to DDG)
Note: This offer was emailed to certain members, but I was able to extract the link and strip away the member specific identifying parts of the URL. I don’t think the link is risky, but always know a link’s provenance.
Obviously if you thought 10x was good on its own, 10x + $10 in a slightly annoying to use grocery certificate is slightly better. (Thanks to SideShowBob233)
The concept of “base fares” didn’t used to matter much with Southwest, but now that we’re in the “Southwest-is-basically-Ryanair” era of travel, I’d like to share a reminder that anything not included in the fare itself won’t be discounted, like seat selection fees and checked bag fees. Sometimes booking a bundle that’s 40% off that includes seats and checked bags in the fare is cheaper than booking basic and paying for add-ons, but only sometimes.
– Business Essentials: $400 bonus with $5,000 deposited – Platinum Business: $1,000 bonus with $25,000 deposited
Both require five transactions (even five $1 ACHs is fine), and that you have the money present between days 30 and 60 after opening. If you’re good with a calendar, both of these are slam dunks, earning either 8% or 4% respectively with a 30 day money lock-up.
Hyatt has new targeted promotions, you can look for one on your Hyatt Offers dashboard, or try the following links compiled by DDG if you like disappointment:
I got exactly zero of them to work on my account, does that mean I win?
Safeway, Albertsons, Vons, and other Just4U rewards stores have a digital coupon for 10x points on Zift Zillions cards through Saturday. If you’re going for this deal, the blue ones tend to work best. Why those? I guess because they’re made with genuine artificial Zillions powder.
I didn’t realize that July 31 was national weird credit card offer day, but here we are. Since we’re not savages, we’ll start with a Hyatt promotion as an amuse bouche before the deluge.
The Marriott Bonvoy American Express card line-up has increased bonuses, and all are available through referrals so go that route first:
– Brilliant: 185,000 Bonvoy points after $6,000 spend in six months – Bevy: 155,000 Bonvoy points after $5,000 spend in six months – Business: 125,000 Bonvoy points after $8,000 spend in six months
These are all time high offers, but Marriott properties are also at all time high points redemption cost, so maybe check a couple of bookings to decide if these really make sense for your travel patterns.
– 10% back on $800+ (max $80 back monthly) – 10% back on $800+ (max $100 back monthly) – 10% back on $1,000+ (max $100 back monthly) – 15% back on $1,000+ (max $175 back monthly)
They’ve excluded grocery, wholesale clubs, and home improvement stores from the promotion, but explicitly included office supply stores, department stores, and miscellaneous general merchandise stores as eligible, in addition to some more niche merchant types. (Thanks to K, Shmuel, Fish, Matt, and Josh)
There are increased sign-up bonus for the American Express Business Gold and Platinum cards, some of which are no-lifetime language (NLL):
– Business Gold (via referrals): 200,000 Membership Rewards after $15,000 spend in three months – Business Platinum (via referrals): 250,000 Membership Rewards after $20,000 spend in three months – Business Gold (NLL): 175,000 Membership Rewards after $15,000 spend in three months
If you don’t have another player for a referral, reach out to a churning friend and use theirs.
