{"id":13656,"date":"2026-05-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13656"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:42:43","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 $300 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, but do earn Membership Rewards with debit spend. (Thanks to David and Holly for the update)
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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\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":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13673,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions\/13673"}],"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}]}}