{"id":12011,"date":"2025-06-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12011"},"modified":"2025-06-17T23:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T05:34:46","slug":"wednesday-quad-second-tier-airline-sales-sapphire-overload-and-mesa-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/wednesday-quad-second-tier-airline-sales-sapphire-overload-and-mesa-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Quad: Second Tier Airline Sales, Sapphire Overload, and Mesa Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. I’m sure you’ve seen Sapphire news everywhere<\/a>. Here’s a bit of tl;dr so you don’t have to read a bunch of thousand word promotional essays:

    – 1.5 cents per point and 1.25 cents per point travel booking uplift is going away
    – Targeted up to 2.25 cents per point bookings on some hotels and premium cabin flights
    – You can get both the business and personal card
    – You can get both a Preferred and a Reserve card
    – Approvals will be driven by an algorithm, no more 48 month language for bonus eligibility
    – The coupon overload is legit and real
    – Personal AUs will carry a $175 annual fee and will include lounge access

    For a great breakdown without blogger fluff, see     this excellent reddit post for the personal side<\/a>, and this adequate post for the business side<\/a>.
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  2. Southwest has a targeted offer for 6,000 bonus points for flying on a new business booking or 5,000 bonus points for flying on a new leisure booking<\/a>, and the offer is valid for 90 days once you activate it. You’ve got until December 31 to start.

    The offer was also emailed with the subject “We\u2019ve got a \ud83c\udf81 just for you!” (Thanks to Larry)
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  3. The Mesa Mastercard added Aeroplan and SAS EuroBonus as transfer partners<\/a>, the latter of which is a unique in the US Market and is a great frequent flyer program for redemptions. (Thanks to FM<\/a>)
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  4. Second tier airlines are running second tier fare sales:

    –     Breeze 35% off<\/a> with promo code SUNSHINE<\/em> book by Friday
    –     Southwest fares<\/a> “starting from $39”, book by tomorrow
    –     JetBlue Award sale<\/a>, book today

    No word from Allegiant or Spirit. Either that or I just didn’t care, who can tell?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Have a nice Wednesday!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Striving for adequacy and succeeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have a nice Wednesday! Striving for adequacy and succeeding.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-credit-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011","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=12011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12016,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011\/revisions\/12016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}