{"id":11122,"date":"2025-01-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11122"},"modified":"2025-01-23T18:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T01:22:26","slug":"thursday-new-ihg-bonus-airline-updates-and-cheap-gift-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/thursday-new-ihg-bonus-airline-updates-and-cheap-gift-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: New IHG Bonus, Airline Updates, and Cheap Gift Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/creditcards.chase.com\/a1\/ihg\/PremierOnPropertyAEP\">Chase IHG Premier Visa has an increased sign-up bonus of five free night certificates<\/a>, each good for 40,000 points a night, with $4,000 spend in three months. The $99 annual fee is <em>not<\/em> waived for the first year.<br><br>40,000 points in the IHG program is good for average, mid-tier hotels, and<s> if you stack the free night certificates with fourth night free, you can make this effectively a six night free sign-up bonus<\/s>.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/qantas-frequent-flyer\/2184188-new-benefits-program-changes-coming-up-20-devaluation.html\">Qantas will devalue its points program on August 5<\/a>, raising redemption costs between 5% and 20%. Redemption fees will increase too, because duh. (Yes, some short haul Qantas metal redemptions will decrease in cost; no, that doesn&#8217;t make it any better.)<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heb.com\/digital-coupon\/coupon-selection\/digideals?int=coupon-home-shortcuts-weekly-ad\">H-E-B stores have a digital coupon for a $20 H-E-B with every $100 Visa, Mastercard, or AmEx gift card purchased in-store<\/a> through Tuesday, limit one per H-E-B account.<br><br>If only it were possible to have multiple H-E-B accounts through some miracle of modern technology called multiple email addresses.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwest.com\/air\/booking\/index.html?slp=SALEPAID&amp;departureDate=2025-03-04&amp;returnDate=2025-03-11\">Southwest has a fare sale for paid and award bookings made by tonight<\/a> for travel between February 11 and May 22.<br><br>No blackout dates are listed unless you&#8217;re traveling to Hawaii or Puerto Rico, then black out days are longer than an <em>entire month<\/em>.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flybreeze.com\/page\/promo-terms-and-conditions\">Breeze Airways has 50% off of base fares with promo code <em>GONOW<\/em><\/a> for travel through May 22, sort of. They took a page from Southwest&#8217;s book and added a blackout periods of over an entire month, but decided it&#8217;d be funner to apply it to all destinations and not just non-continental US destinations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"802\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/two-emails.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11124\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/two-emails.png 900w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/two-emails-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/two-emails-768x684.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Techno-lord mug of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techno-lord mug of the day.<\/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":[60,54,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11122","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=11122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11150,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11122\/revisions\/11150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}