{"id":12219,"date":"2025-07-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12219"},"modified":"2025-07-24T23:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:41:10","slug":"friday-skymiles-redux-southwest-cards-disappoint-me-aa-portal-bonus-and-hawaiianmiles-sunset-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/friday-skymiles-redux-southwest-cards-disappoint-me-aa-portal-bonus-and-hawaiianmiles-sunset-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday: SkyMiles Redux, Southwest Cards Disappoint, AA Portal Bonus, and HawaiianMiles Sunset Date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The Delta American Express SkyMiles cards have new, targeted no-lifetime language (NLL) offers<\/a>:

    – Personal Gold: 70,000 SkyMiles after $3,000 spend in six months, annual-fee waived
    – Personal Platinum: 100,000 SkyMiles after $5,000 spend in six months
    – Personal Reserve: 100,000 SkyMiles after $6,000 spend in six months
    – Business Gold: 90,000 SkyMiles after $4,000 spend in six months, annual-fee waived
    – Business Platinum: 110,000 SkyMiles after $6,000 spend in six months
    – Business Reserve: 125,000 SkyMiles after $10,000 spend in six months

    Obviously the business cards are better options for most. (Thanks to     DDG<\/a>)
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  2. The AAdvantage eShopping portal has a back-to-school spend bonus for 2,000 extra miles after $1,200+ cumulative spend<\/a> through August 11.

    If you’re buying, uh<\/em> let’s say screwdrivers, from giftcards.com, you can think of this as +1.67 miles per dollar on exactly $1,200 worth of screwdrivers, but +0 bonus loyalty points because bonuses don’t count for those.
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  3. The annual fees on the Southwest personal cards all jumped yesterday, and in case you missed it, they also dropped their annual $75 Southwest credit in exchange (I guess?). The bonuses are all heightened at 100,000 Rapid Rewards points<\/a>, but we’ve seen that on personal Southwest cards in the past with lower fees and with the annual credit, so let’s just file this as lame. Notes:

    – You have five months to hit the sign-up bonus
    – The offer lasts through September 17
    – The offer is also available via referrals

    If you wait until mid-September to apply via referral and wait until January to finish the bonus spend, you’ll earn the points in 2026 setting you up for a huge Companion Pass head start. That of course assumes the Companion Pass will still exist then, I wouldn’t put it past them to #bonvoy you somehow, Lubbock style.
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  4. HawaiianMiles, and their ability to be used to upgrade flights on Hawaiian metal, will be gone on October 1<\/a>. After that date, your Hawaiian credit cards will earn Alaska MileagePlan miles. (Thanks to revenue_management<\/a>)
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    Have a nice weekend friends!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Unboxing your giftcards.com purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have a nice weekend friends! Unboxing your giftcards.com purchase.<\/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":[60,54,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-credit-cards","category-portals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219","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=12219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12223,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219\/revisions\/12223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}