{"id":13679,"date":"2026-05-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13679"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:19:47","slug":"tuesday-loyalty-shakeup-2-on-5-million-amex-upgrades-unfunny-capitalism-jokes-and-quick-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/tuesday-loyalty-shakeup-2-on-5-million-amex-upgrades-unfunny-capitalism-jokes-and-quick-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday: Loyalty Shakeup, 2% on $5 Million, AmEx Upgrades, Unfunny Capitalism Jokes, and Quick Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. AirFrance \/ KLM FlyingBlue has a new leader<\/a>, and the most surprising part is that the leader is a relatively well-known travel hacker, Tiffany Funk<\/a>. Tiffany co-founded point.me, ran a paid award booking service, and oversaw parts of the business operations at One Mile at a Time.

    My crystal ball is famously nothing more than a ball made of crystal; but it tells me that this is bad news for serious travel hackers and good news for the median regular family putting all their spend on Delta credit cards and booking economy awards with SkyMiles to Rome. I do think we’ll see more business class availability on the worst routes at the worst times, but less availability when and where you want to fly in premium cabins. I sure hope I’m wrong. Today’s action Well, remember that the site’s name ends in “and Burn”.
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  2. SoFi has a 2% ACATS transfer bonus on both new and existing pre-tax or post-tax accounts<\/a>, limit $5 Million in transferred funds.

    To keep the bonus, you’ve got to hold the funds for 5 years otherwise     you may pay out more in penalties than the original bonus<\/a>.
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  3. American Express has more targeted offers for upgrading a Business Gold or Business Green card to a Business Platinum<\/a>. You’ll earn 120,000 Membership Rewards after $10,000 spend in three months, and you’ll be effectively locked into the card for a year unless you like pop-up jail.
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  4. Meijer mPerks has 50,000 bonus points with the purchase of a $500 third party gift card<\/a> other than Amazon and phone cards through today, limit 50,000 points per mPerks account.

    This is what economists call a great value, which is defined as when capitalism accidentally does something nice. (Thanks to     GCA<\/a>)
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  5. OfficeDepot \/ Office Max has $15 off of $300+ in Mastercards through Saturday<\/a>. As usual, buy in even multiples of $300 for the best oomph.

    These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.
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  6. If you’re a Frontier flyer, register for a bonus 5,000 miles per round-trip flight through August 31<\/a> with a maximum of 20,000 bonus miles earned.

    You’ll need to rebook existing travel to qualify for the promotion, otherwise known as when capitalism does what it’s supposed to.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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

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    The fine print matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Happy Tuesday friends! The fine print matters.<\/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":[60,69,54,53,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-bank-bonuses","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679","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=13679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13688,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions\/13688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}