{"id":10036,"date":"2024-07-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=10036"},"modified":"2024-07-26T07:07:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:07:41","slug":"weekend-followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/26\/weekend-followup\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Followup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s lots of follow-up news to go over today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. AA’s shopping portal finally has a back-to-school bonus for 2,000 miles after $1,200+ spend through August 8<\/a>, which was predicted by my made up sources a week ago<\/a>. That makes those sources right half of the time.

    Giftcards.com     remains absent from major airline shopping portals<\/a>.
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  2. As you’ve no doubt heard since just about every news outlet in North America picked up the story, Southwest announced a few things<\/a>:

    – They’ll soon offer assigned seating
    – They’ll soon offer extra leg room seats
    – Red-eye flights *shudder*<\/em> start in February 2025

    They still won’t charge for checked bags. Will this make me fly Southwest more? Actually, definitely. (Thanks to Brian M)
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  3. The personal American Express Gold revamped<\/a>. The quick reference card:

    – $325 annual fee (up from $250), existing cardholders pay the new price after 10\/1
    – 4x dining is now limited to $50,000 spend per calendar year
    – $50 semi-annual Resy restaurants credit (    gaming info here<\/a>)
    – $10 monthly dining credit shifts to 5 Guys from Shake Shack
    – $7 monthly Dunkin’ Donuts credit (lulz)

    The new card is available via both referrals with a 90,000 Membership Rewards sign-up bonus or through luck and a random number generator you might get 100,000 Membership Rewards by applying directly. Just try different browsers, incognito, a VPN, mobile instead of desktop, or going through different search engines until it shows up.
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  4. Do this now:<\/strong> Register for new American Express Gold card credits: $50 semi-annual Resy credit<\/a> and $7 Dunkin’ Donuts monthly credit<\/a> (lulz)
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  5. Kroger has a 4x fuel points promotion<\/a> running today only on third party gift cards and fixed value Visa and Mastercards, excluding Amazon cards. GCG<\/a> notes that there’s also a coupon for $8 off of two $100 Visa gift cards.<\/a>

    Fuel points and gift card rates remain more or less steady with last week.
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  6. Pepper Rewards<\/a>, which has effectively tanked most bulk gift card resale rates<\/a>, has finally devalued its program. As of today, most major brands will earn 1% back in points, rather than the 5% or 10% that they’ve been earning since the beginning of the year.

    My made-up sources say bulk gift card rates will recover by the end of August, and we all know how good they are.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    Follow-up recipe from \u201cChurning, Travel Hacking, and Selected Croissant Recipes\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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