{"id":13797,"date":"2026-06-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13797"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T00:29:49","slug":"thursday-two-small-promotions-and-three-bigger-devaluations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/thursday-two-small-promotions-and-three-bigger-devaluations\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: Two Small Promotions and Three Bigger Devaluations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meijer.com\/shopping\/mPerks.html\">Meijer stores have 10,000 bonus MPerks points with a $100 One4All gift card<\/a>, limit one per MPerks account through Tuesday.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.alaskaair.com\/loyalty\/introducing-atmos-members-day\/\">Alaska Atmos has a new monthly marketing push for discounted award redemptions in economy<\/a>. This month&#8217;s redemption options are Mexico City (7,500 miles), Paris (20,000 miles), Helsinki (15,000 miles), Tahiti (20,000 miles), Bangkok (25,000 miles), Taipei (30,000 miles). You&#8217;ve got to book by Friday for travel between September 1 and November 15<br><br>Most of these flights will necessarily be partner redemptions, and I doubt it goes uphill from here so if you&#8217;re not excited for this, well I guess prepare to be more not excited next month. (Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/1tvjqdf\/comment\/opltn2p\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">LiftBroski<\/a>)<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskaair.com\/atmosrewards\/content\/earn-points\/flights\">Alaska Atmos decided to devalue mileage accrual and elite status credit on revenue saver tickets<\/a>: &#8220;Saver fares (X class) earn 30% of miles flown for travel through July 31, 2026, or for trips booked before June 11, 2026. Saver fares booked on or after June 11, 2026 and flown on\/after August 1, 2026 do not earn Atmos Rewards points. For eligible travel on\/after August 1, please allow 4\u20136 weeks for points to post.&#8221;<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/awardtravel\/comments\/1tqc53w\/aa_has_stealth_devalued_tatl_flights_on_metal_by\/\">AA seems to have devalued its transatlantic business class redemptions<\/a> by at least 5,000 miles, with the minimum redemption cost on AA metal moving from 65,000 to 70,000 miles.<br><br>Awards that include non AA metal flights haven&#8217;t changed in price, so think on that for a moment when constructing your routing.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/awardtravel\/comments\/1tvnh49\/singapore_airlines_adds_seat_selection\/\">Singapore Airlines is adding advance seat selection fees<\/a> for most award business class flights on Singapore metal. At T-96 hours, seat selection is free.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Talk about oof-day, eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"804\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13798\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3.png 804w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-768x623.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Another upcoming devaluation: American removes milk and butter from its flagship first mac &amp; cheese plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about oof-day, eh? Another upcoming devaluation: American removes milk and butter from its flagship first mac &amp; cheese plate.<\/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":[60,53,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-gift-cards","category-whomp-whomp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797","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=13797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13799,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13797\/revisions\/13799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}