{"id":13656,"date":"2026-05-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13656"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:00:30","slug":"tuesday-american-express-dominates-the-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/tuesday-american-express-dominates-the-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday: American Express Dominates the Headlines, Best Western (Fire) Promotion, and 10% TrueBlue Bump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. American Express has a 30,000 bonus for new personal<\/em> checking accounts<\/a> after receiving at least $7,500 in cumulative direct deposits in the first 90 days. These accounts are unfortunately not churnable.
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  2. American Express has new targeted offers for:

    –     10,000 Membership Rewards for adding an authorized user<\/a> to the personal Gold card and spending $2,000 in six months
    – 15,000 Membership Rewards for adding employee cards to the     business Gold<\/a> or business Platinum<\/a> and spending $4,000 in three months

    Watch out and make sure you see the offer before applying on the employee card side, the same links also have non-bonused versions.
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  3. The Rakuten American Express card has an increased sign-up bonus of $200 after $2,000 spend<\/a> in 90 days, provided you apply by today (or apply next month when the offer inevitably returns for two days). This card is useful for multiple reasons, including:

    – It’s a third party American Express (which also has     AmEx Offers<\/a>)
    – With the right Bilt status, it’s an uncapped 2x grocery Hyatt card
    – It can also be an uncapped 2x grocery Membership Rewards card

    The +4x on all Rakuten spend looks enticing too until you see its annual $7,000 cap.
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  4. Best Western has two stackable promotions in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean, registration required for each:

    –     1,000 bonus points per night<\/a> between May 11 and September 7
    –     5,000 bonus points per two nights<\/a> between May 10 and September 7

    You (unfortunately?) also have to stack these with stays at Best Western.
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  5. American Express has a 10% transfer bonus to JetBlue TrueBlue through May 11<\/a>, making the transfer ratio 1,000:880 because #americalovesmath.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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

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    Best Western already held its traditional hotel fire<\/a> in 2026, so statistically speaking your stays should be fire-free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Tuesday! Best Western already held its traditional hotel fire in 2026, so statistically speaking your stays should be fire-free.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656","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=13656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13660,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions\/13660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}