{"id":13830,"date":"2026-06-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13830"},"modified":"2026-06-11T06:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:10:49","slug":"thursday-chase-devalues-the-ink-and-sapphire-preferred-portal-games-4x-sneak-attack-and-southwest-footnotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/thursday-chase-devalues-the-ink-and-sapphire-preferred-portal-games-4x-sneak-attack-and-southwest-footnotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: Chase Devalues Ink and Sapphire Preferred, Portal Games, 4x Sneak Attack, and Southwest Footnotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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  1. Chase is changing the Sapphire Preferred card<\/a>:

    – Transfers to Hyatt will be 4:3 on June 15 for new cards and October 1 for existing cards
    – The annual 10% rewards bonus ends on June 15 for new cards and October 1 for existing cards
    – 3x earning on gas, EV charging, Airbnb, and VRBO
    – A new Global Entry \/ PreCheck credit since the other 14 you have aren’t enough
    – Changed travel insurance
    – A one-time Apple TV coupon

    Generally speaking this is a negative change, but don’t worry if you want a positive spin from lala land, TPG has your back: “And at a time when many travel cards are becoming increasingly expensive and complicated, there’s a strong argument that the Sapphire Preferred just became an even better fit for casual travelers.<\/em>” Erm, ok.
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  2. The Chase Ink Business Preferred card will also devalue transfers to Hyatt starting on June 15<\/a> for new cards, and October 1 for existing cards. Side note: Reportedly the sign-up bonus for several Ink cards and the Sapphire Reserve Business card will be increased on June 15, I guess to counter bad-press?
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  3. Chase Ultimate Rewards has a 30% transfer bonus to Virgin Atlantic <\/a>through July 7.
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  4. For those of you that like it when portal-like companies that you’ve never heard of team up with business banks that you’ve never heard of, there’s a $300 promotion between Finder and Grasshopper<\/a>. To earn a $300 Finders<\/a> gift card which can apparently be turned into a Visa e-gift card:

    –     Open a new Grasshopper business checking account<\/a> via Finders
    – Depot $100+

    In theory the Finders gift card arrives quickly, and it might be clawed back if you don’t keep the account open 150+ days. (Thanks to     DoC<\/a>)
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  5. Kroger, Fry’s, Ralphs, Harris Teeter, and other family stores have a 4x fuel points promotion on third party gift cards excluding Amazon and Flexible fuel cards<\/a>, and on fixed value Visa and Mastercard gift cards<\/a>, running through Tuesday, June 23.

    Fuel points demand is currently through the roof for probably obvious reasons.
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  6. Two airline portals have a summer bonus promotion:

    –     Alaska Shopping<\/a>: 500 miles with $200+ spend by June 19
    –     United Shopping<\/a>: 750 miles with $250+ spend by Sunday

    Giftcards.com is a quick way to knock these out.
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  7. Southwest has 40% off both award and revenue flights using promo code FLYWOW<\/em><\/a> for travel between August 4 and December 16 and booked by today.

    Blackout dates? You betcha. Only select flights on non-blackout dates? Of course, this is Southwest after all.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Have a nice Thursday friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Preview of upcoming Chase automation, built to address their most common customer request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Have a nice Thursday friends! Preview of upcoming Chase automation, built to address their most common customer request.<\/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":[54,53,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-portals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13830","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=13830"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13836,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13830\/revisions\/13836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}