{"id":12585,"date":"2025-10-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12585"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:35:05","slug":"thursday-strata-elite-goes-legit-aa-2-5x-at-giftcards-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/thursday-strata-elite-goes-legit-aa-2-5x-at-giftcards-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: Strata Elite Goes Legit, AA 2.5x at Giftcards.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The Citi Strata Elite Card has a public heightened sign-up bonus of 100,000 ThankYou points<\/a> after $6,000 spend in three months, no weird links or other in-branch shenanigans that may or may not involve eating pudding with a fork<\/a> are needed.
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  2. The AA eShopping portal currently has giftcards.com at 2.5x earning<\/a>. You may be surprised to learn that giftcards.com sells things like gift cards.

    AA in particular is interesting because you’ll also earn Loyalty Points toward status through the shopping portal.
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  3. Discount airlines are running sales:

    –     Frontier<\/a>: Sale on paid and award bookings made today, travel through December 18
    –     American Express Offers<\/a> for Frontier: $50 off of $200+ by December 31
    –     Southwest<\/a>: Sale on paid and award bookings made today, travel 21 days out

    The Frontier deals will be specifically great for churning legend Alan, but have utility outside of Alan too.
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  4. Blit Rewards (sp) added Etihad Guest as a 1:1 transfer partner<\/a>. I’m glad to see new partners, but this one adds about as much incremental value as mayonnaise does to pizza.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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

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    Bilt adds Etihad, but as a pizza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Thursday! Bilt adds Etihad, but as a pizza.<\/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":[54,53,76,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-portals","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585","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=12585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12591,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions\/12591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}