{"id":11631,"date":"2025-04-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11631"},"modified":"2025-04-08T21:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T03:07:28","slug":"wednesday-quad-smartly-about-to-be-nerfed-ana-devaluations-and-alaska-award-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/wednesday-quad-smartly-about-to-be-nerfed-ana-devaluations-and-alaska-award-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Quad: Smartly About to be Nerfed, ANA Devaluations, Kroger 4x, and Alaska Award Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The US Bank Smartly Visa is changing on Monday:<\/a>

    – Boosted 4x, 3x, and 2.5x earning will be capped at $10,000 spend monthly
    – Funds in brokerage, savings, or retirement accounts will no longer be eligible for boost
    – There are new exclusions to boosted spend including education, gift cards, bill payment services, and tax payments

    You can still get the older, better version of this card through Sunday night, so consider going for it now if it’s been on your radar, and especially so if you don’t have an Altitude Reserve.
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  2. ANA will be devaluing on June 24<\/a>. The changes:

    – High season redemptions all increase in cost, in the worst cases at 50%
    – One way award bookings will be supported
    – Round-the-world tickets will no longer be bookable

    American Express Membership Rewards transfer to ANA but it’s not instant. If you want a round-the-world ticket, there’s still time for one last hurrah.
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  3. Alaska has a paid and award ticket sale<\/a>, and the redemption values are great:

    – Mid-continental flights at 6,500 miles
    – Trans-continental flights at 9,000 miles
    – Mexico flights at 12,500 miles

    Travel is valid through June 17 and there are route specific blackout dates.
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  4. Kroger has a 4x fuel points promotion on third party gift cards starting today and running through April 22<\/a>. Amazon gift cards are excluded.

    Pepper continues to push the market for many third party cards down, but brands that Pepper doesn’t sell like lululemon and brands that Pepper limits like BestBuy are currently good options.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    A soon to be collectors item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A soon to be collectors item.<\/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-11631","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\/11631","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=11631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11639,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631\/revisions\/11639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}