{"id":13614,"date":"2026-04-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13614"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:52:55","slug":"monday-united-is-a-bully-american-express-blue-business-cards-and-quick-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/monday-united-is-a-bully-american-express-blue-business-cards-and-quick-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday: United is a Bully, American Express Blue Business Cards, and Quick Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Air Canada Aeroplan will devalue in June<\/a>. The churnosphere is largely blaming this on rising oil prices which I think is a contributing factor, but I believe a bigger factor is United exerting pressure on its partners for price parity, one such datapoint is here<\/a>. The changes:

    – Atlantic business redemptions rising 5,000 – 10,000 miles on average
    – Atlantic first redemptions rising 10,000 miles
    – Pacific business redemptions rising 2,500 – 10,000 miles on average
    – Pacific first redemptions rising 10,000 miles

    Some of the edge cases have prices going down, and some have higher than 10,000 mile increases too.
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  2. Avianca LifeMiles also devalued over the weekend<\/a>:

    – Some partner business redemptions rising 15%
    – Some partner economy redemptions rising 21%

    Again, this honestly reeks of United.
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  3. The generic Blue Business Plus and Blue Business Cash links currently have no-lifetime language (NLL) targeted offers:

    \u2013     Blue Business Plus<\/a>: 75,000 Membership Rewards after $6,000 spend in four months
    \u2013     Blue Business Cash<\/a>. $750 after $6,000 spend in four months

    Both cards have no annual fee, and these offers are not<\/em> available via referrals.
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  4. Hyatt’s May 20th category changes have been announced<\/a>, and their point devaluation is happening on the same date. I hope it goes without saying, but book speculative stays now.
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  5. Stop & Shop<\/a>, Giant<\/a>, and Martins<\/a> have 10x points on Lowes cards through Thursday. Giant Food<\/a> stores on the other hand are only earning 6x because the corporate overlords hate Maryland, I can only assume because one of the corporate executives has a shellfish allergy.
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  6. Staples stores have fee-free $200 Mastercard gift cards through Saturday<\/a>, limit nine per transaction.

    These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.
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  7. The Delta SkyMiles shopping portal has a promotion for 500 bonus miles<\/a> with $100+ in purchases at giftcards.com, or I guess if you’re basic any other store on the portal works too.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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

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    Souvenir button available at Giant Food regional corporate headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Monday! Souvenir button available at Giant Food regional corporate headquarters.<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614","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=13614"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13625,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions\/13625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}