{"id":13784,"date":"2026-06-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13784"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:45:11","slug":"wednesday-flyingblue-twice-atmos-junk-fee-gets-junkier-and-best-western-opaque-pool-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/wednesday-flyingblue-twice-atmos-junk-fee-gets-junkier-and-best-western-opaque-pool-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday: FlyingBlue Twice, Atmos Junk Fee gets Junkier, and Best Western Opaque Pool Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Do this now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyndhamhotels.com\/wyndham-rewards\/hotel-deals\/2-free-nights-summer-rewards\">Register for Wyndham&#8217;s promotion for bonus points on 2+ night stays booked by September 3<\/a> for stays through September 30. You&#8217;ll earn between 7,500 &#8211; 15,000 bonus points per stay and you&#8217;re limited to 15,000 total bonus points with the promotion.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/rewards\/transfer\">American Express Membership Rewards has a 25% transfer bonus to AirFrance \/ KLM&#8217;s FlyingBlue<\/a> through June 30.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingblue.us\/en\/spend\">AirFrance \/ KLM&#8217;s FlyingBlue released its June promo awards<\/a>. US Cities include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, New York, Seattle, San Jose, and Washington DC. Economy flights are 18,750 miles each way, and business class flights &#8230;. exist at absurdly priced levels.<br><br>Summer to Europe via SkyTeam in business looks bleak. <br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskaair.com\/atmosrewards\/content\/use-points\">Alaska Atmos will raise its partner redemption fee to $20 on July 1<\/a>. <br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/giftcard.gianteagle.com\">Giant Eagle Grocery stores have a promotion for 550 perks points with a $100 One4All Ultimate or Favorites gift card<\/a>, both in-store and online, seemingly unlimited.<br><br>The resale market for Giant Eagle points is tiny, but with the right finesse this is effectively a 10% rebate plus grocery store credit card spend.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestwestern.com\/en_US\/offers\/hotel-discounts\/special-offer\/email-campaigns\/us250yrs.html\">Best Western has promotion for 2,500 bonus points per night<\/a> between July 1 and 7 at US and Canadian properties, registration required, limit 10,000 points. If you need a sales pitch to entice you to book: I&#8217;ve only heard of one opaque Best Western swimming pool this year.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-1-1024x472.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13786\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-1-1024x472.png 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-1-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-1-768x354.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">&#8220;Opaque blue&#8221; beats almost any other opaque color in a pool at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Wednesday! &#8220;Opaque blue&#8221; beats almost any other opaque color in a pool at least.<\/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":[60,61,13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-hotels","category-louse","category-ms-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784","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=13784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13791,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions\/13791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}