{"id":13486,"date":"2026-04-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:04:25","slug":"friday-mileage-play-be-your-own-bofa-affiliate-airlines-collude-before-your-eyes-and-a-big-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/friday-mileage-play-be-your-own-bofa-affiliate-airlines-collude-before-your-eyes-and-a-big-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday: Mileage Play, Be your Own BofA Affiliate, Airlines Collude Before Your Eyes, and a Big Bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Do this now<\/strong>: Check for your targeted United MileagePlay offer<\/a>. Mine was book and fly a $100+ trip through June 9 and earn 3,000 bonus miles.
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  2. Bank of America has credit cards available via the Rakuten shopping portal:

    –     Travel Rewards<\/a>: $150 from Rakuten plus 25,000 points after $1,000 spend in 90 days
    –     Customized Cash<\/a>: $75 from Rakuten plus $200 after $1,000 spend in 90 days

    The business versions of the cards have higher offers than the portal and sign-up bonus put together, so keep your enthusiasm appropriately calibrated. (Thanks to     DoC<\/a>)
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  3. JetBlue raised bag fees a couple of days ago. I didn’t mention it because I was sure the list would grow within the week, and indeed it’s happened. So now we’re at:

    –     JetBlue increasing checked bag fees<\/a>
    –     United increased checked bag fees<\/a>

    AA, Alaska, and Delta are sure to come in the next week, but they’ll stagger it for optics. Who says there’s collusion in the industry? This is just about fuel, duh.
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  4. The AmaZing Business Visa card has an increased $1,000 sign-up bonus or 100,000 point sign-up bonus depending on the version, but is only available in some states:

    –     Arizona<\/a>
    –     California<\/a>
    –     Colorado and New Mexico<\/a>
    –     Nevada<\/a>
    –     Texas<\/a>
    –     Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho<\/a>

    Underwriting is a manual process, and there isn’t actually a difference between the points card or cash back card other than the extra step to redeem your points for cash back.
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  5. Chase Offers has a targeted offer for $100 off of $600+ in travel<\/a> booked through the end of June, and this offer stacks with Sapphire Reserve $250 Edit hotel credits too.
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  6. PayPal offers has a targeted offer for 5% back at GiftCards.com<\/a>, up to $20 back.
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  7. Raley\u2019s, Nob Hill, and Bel Air stars have 15x points on Apple gift cards<\/a>, some of which convert to Home Depot, through Tuesday.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Have a nice weekend friends!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Recommended enthusiasm base-line calibration setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have a nice weekend friends! Recommended enthusiasm base-line calibration setting.<\/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-13486","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\/13486","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=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13489,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions\/13489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}