{"id":12368,"date":"2025-08-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12368"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:08:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:08:50","slug":"tuesday-hy-vee-goes-big-southwest-companion-pass-american-express-offer-and-a-tiny-singapore-inspired-psa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/tuesday-hy-vee-goes-big-southwest-companion-pass-american-express-offer-and-a-tiny-singapore-inspired-psa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday: Hy-Vee Goes Big, Southwest Companion Pass, American Express Offer, and a Tiny Singapore Inspired PSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Southwest has a promotional companion pass valid for travel between January 6, 2026 and March 6, 2026<\/a>. To earn it:

    –     Register at this link<\/a>, or at the bottom of your ‘My Account’ page
    – Book a two one-ways or one round-trip by Thursday, non basic economy
    – Fly by November 15

    Existing bookings don’t count. Both paid and award tickets are eligible.
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  2. Hy-Vee stores have $10 off of $150 in Visa and Mastercard gift cards<\/a> through Monday. Hy-Vee $10 off coupons typically work in multiples, always be probing.

    These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.
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  3. More Citi cards can transfer to AA Advantage miles<\/a>:

    – The Strata, Preferred, Double Cash, and Custom Cash transfer at 1:0.7
    – The Strata Premier, Strata Elite, and Prestige cards transfer at 1:1

    (Thanks to     DoC<\/a>)
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  4. Citi ThankYou Points has a 25% transfer bonus to Wyndham Rewards<\/a> through September 20. In semi-related news, Wyndham Vacasa booking windows have dropped to six months<\/a>.
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  5. American Express offers has a targeted offer for $180 back on $1,200+ at Eva Air<\/a> for flights originating in the US. It may be possible to turn this into discount Southwest Airlines travel through their interline agreement announced yesterday<\/a> if you want to make life hard and ticket changes even more frustrating.
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  6. Capital One Shopping has targeted referral bonuses that offer $40<\/a> to both the referrer and referred.

    Capital One Shopping has gotten better about recognizing self-referrals, but good hygiene continues to pay dividends.
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  7. Singapore Airlines changed award redemption rates<\/a>. Most rates are going up 5%-10%, though Asia and South Pacific redemptions drop 5% in price. Flights to Africa and the Middle East are getting 10-20% increases, and there’s new, variable pricing for non-saver awards.

    PSA to travel bloggers: It’s possible to summarize this sort of thing in less than 1,250 words, I promise.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Another helpful PSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Tuesday! Another helpful PSA.<\/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":[60,53,64,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-gift-cards","category-points","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368","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=12368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12373,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions\/12373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}