{"id":13650,"date":"2026-05-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13650"},"modified":"2026-05-03T17:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:37:24","slug":"monday-a-great-card-offer-another-bad-prediction-transfer-bonuses-and-spirit-airfare-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/monday-a-great-card-offer-another-bad-prediction-transfer-bonuses-and-spirit-airfare-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday: A Great Card Offer, Another Bad Prediction, Transfer Bonuses, and Spirit Airfare Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’ve no doubt heard it in 1,000 other places so I won’t belabor the point, but Spirit shutdown over the weekend. I’m sure any of you that had Spirit plans had a backup, and I’m sure you already know to do a chargeback for outstanding fares if you don’t already have an automatic refund. For those keeping score at home, my prediction was wrong: I’d guessed in January that we’d lose them by April<\/a>, but they held out until May 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The Citi AA Platinum Select personal Mastercard has an offer for 80,000 AA miles<\/a> after $1,000 spend in three months, and the annual fee is<\/em> waived for the first year. Any random six digit number will work on the application, but I’m partial to 311437 for reasons.
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  2. The Chase IHG personal cards have a targeted bonus of 3,000 bonus points on $1,000 spend <\/a>through June 25.
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  3. Staples has two Visa gift card promotions:

    –     $200 Visas for $199.05 online<\/a>
    –     $200 Visas fee-free in-store<\/a> through Saturday

    These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.
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  4. Chase Ultimate Rewards has two transfer bonuses<\/a>:

    – 65% to Marriott Bonvoy through May 15
    – 20% to AirFrance \/ KLM FlyingBlue through May 27

    The 65% transfer bonus to Bonvoy brings it into the realm of an ok deal, but still not in the range of a speculative transfer.
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  5. Capital One has a 20% transfer bonus to Qantas Frequent Flyer<\/a> through May 31. This one has great utility for Emirates First redemptions specifically.
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  6. Major US airlines have airfare deals for stranded Spirit passengers for travel in the next week or two<\/a>. Most of these work whether or not you’re actually a stranded Spirit passenger, and some of them are actually sort-of a good deal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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

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    The MEAB prediction machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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