{"id":11030,"date":"2025-01-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11030"},"modified":"2025-01-07T18:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T01:03:26","slug":"wednesday-quick-hits-portals-credit-cards-and-hotel-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/wednesday-quick-hits-portals-credit-cards-and-hotel-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Quick Hits: Portals, Credit Cards, and Hotel Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Two airline portals have bonuses for online spend:

    – United MileagePlus Shopping<\/a>: 1,000 miles with $300+ through January 15
    –     AA eShopping<\/a>: 1,000 miles with $500+ through January 12

    Giftcards.com is on both of these portals<\/a>, so you can take a Kudos college break.
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  2. The Alaska Airlines business card has a heightened sign-up bonus of 70,000 miles after $4,000 spend<\/a> in three months, and the $95 annual fee is not<\/em> waived in the first year. Pair a few of these with the personal 75,000 miles offer<\/a> for more cowbell. (Thanks to DoC<\/a>)
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  3. Do this now<\/strong>: Register for double Hyatt elite night credits at Under Canvas Resorts<\/a> for stays between March 7 and June 15. I hesitated to put a “do this now” on this one because y’all don’t seem like the glamping under a canvas tent type, but I mean you never know when you might accidentally end up in a tent I guess.
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  4. Choice Hotels have devalued redemptions<\/a> and added some dynamic room pricing. There’s still value to be had, but this change moves it from a secondary program to a tertiary program in my mind.
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  5. Southwest has a fare sale for travel between January 28 and May 7 booked by tomorrow night<\/a>, with some variability on those dates for Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Based on my extremely limited searches, early and late flights carry most of the discounts with mid-day travel at regular pricing.
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  6. JetBlue has a fare sale for travel between January 11 and April 9 booked by January 14<\/a>, and this one has teeth in a way that most JetBlue sales don’t, for example $89 LAX-BOS fares, $99 BOS-SAN fares, and $49 short and medium haul fares. Mint fares look higher than normal though, so there’s that.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    How do we know this JetBlue plane isn’t Mint-equipped? Bees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How do we know this JetBlue plane isn’t Mint-equipped? Bees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,54,61,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-credit-cards","category-hotels","category-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11032,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11030\/revisions\/11032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}