{"id":13480,"date":"2026-04-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13480"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:28:36","slug":"thursday-april-showers-bring-transfer-bonuses-atmos-redux-lulu-nerf-chase-news-and-american-express-axes-etihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/thursday-april-showers-bring-transfer-bonuses-atmos-redux-lulu-nerf-chase-news-and-american-express-axes-etihad\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: April Showers Bring Transfer Bonuses, Atmos Redux, Lulu Nerf, Chase News, and American Express Axes Etihad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Chase has a new transfer bonuses for the end of April<\/a>:

    – 20% to Air Canada Aeroplan, making the ratio 1:1.2
    – 70% to IHG, making the ratio 1:1.7

    One of these is a good deal, which one is left as an exercise to the reader.
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  2. Capital One has a 30% transfer bonus to Japan Airlines MileageBank<\/a> through the end of April, which makes the transfer ratio 1:0.975
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  3. The Bank of America Alaska Atmos cards have new offers different than the new offers from a few days ago:

    –     Summit<\/a>: 100,000 miles and a 50% flight discount after $6,500 spend in 90 days
    –     Ascent<\/a>: 80,000 miles and a 50% flight discount after $4,000 spend in 120 days
    –     Business<\/a>: 85,000 miles after $5,500 spend in 90 days

    The 50% discount has to be flown between September 8 and November 18 with lots of other asterisks, so cool I guess. (Thanks to Jerry)
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  4. Mixed data-points are coming in about Lululemon physical stores implementing new gift card rules<\/a> to presumably combat American Express Platinum exact value cashouts. The rules:

    – Gift card face values must be in multiples of $50
    – One credit card per gift card purchase
    – One gift card per customer per day

    These aren’t implemented at the register level though, so your success level may be tied to your rizz level. Data points specifying rizz are needed to confirm.
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  5. March’s Chase Air India offer<\/a> for 10% back on $100-$500 in spend has a new, April version<\/a>. The March warning still applies: The best game for this one is to not fly Air India under any circumstances, ever, which should make your game clear.
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  6. Chase Pay Yourself Back has several changes for Q2<\/a>:

    – Personal: grocery stores, pet stores, veterinaries, annual fee, and select charities
    – Business: select charities

    Businesses don’t need cash-back I guess?
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  7. If you like glamping and have a Chase Hyatt card, register for Hyatt’s promotion for 20 points per dollar at Under Canvas and ULUM locations<\/a> for stays between June 1 and September 8.
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  8. American Express is ending two relationships:

    –     The Amazon Business card portfolio is moving to US Bank<\/a> in August
    –     They’re ending transfer to Etihad Guest<\/a> at the end of June

    Reportedly American Express dumped both with the cliche, “It’s not you, it’s me”, because creativity is hard.
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  9. AirFrance \/ KLM FlyingBlue has released its April promo rewards<\/a> for discounted award travel. US cities include: New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Miami, Detroit, Boston, Atlanta, San Diego, Austin, Orlando, and San Francisco.

    I didn’t see any promo award business class availability in the two cities I checked which is worse than normal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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

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    Fun fact: Thanks to the Lego+Lulu partnership, your $75 can be cashed out for two bricks instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Thursday! Fun fact: Thanks to the Lego+Lulu partnership, your $75 can be cashed out for two bricks instead.<\/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":[60,54,53,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-miles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480","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=13480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13485,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions\/13485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}