{"id":13860,"date":"2026-06-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13860"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:03:02","slug":"wednesday-credit-cards-versus-cases-of-bananas-some-jal-award-context-and-paze-doesnt-want-to-paze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/wednesday-credit-cards-versus-cases-of-bananas-some-jal-award-context-and-paze-doesnt-want-to-paze\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday: Credit Cards versus Cases of Bananas, Some JAL Award Context, and Paze Doesn’t Want to Paze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The American Express Delta co-branded credit cards have new no-lifetime language (NLL) links found on the dashboard for Delta SkyMiles Business site<\/a>. The offers:

    – Business Gold: 90,000 SkyMiles after $4,000 spend in three months, annual fee waived first year
    – Business Platinum: 110,000 SkyMiles after $6,000 spend in three months
    – Business Reserve: 125,000 SkyMiles after $10,000 spend in three months

    These are available via referral, but you’ll lose the NLL boon.
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  2. The Chase Sapphire Preferred card has a 100,000 Ultimate Rewards bonus after $5,000 spend in three months.<\/a> This is also available via referrals, so use a friend’s and make their day.
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  3. The Chase Marriott Bonvoy Boundless card has an increased sign-up bonus of 125,000 Bonvoy points and a free-night certificate worth up to 50,000 points<\/a>. This is also available via referrals.

    Last I checked, 125,000 Bonvoy points was still worth more than a couple of cases of Costco bananas,     but that might be changing<\/a>?
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  4. Cathay Pacific AsiaMiles hasn’t been able to book low level Japan Airlines premium cabin awards<\/a> since about two weeks ago and now the problem is becoming more public<\/a>. Compounding, it’s not just AsiaMiles: AAdvantage availability shrunk in the same timeframe though it wasn’t completely eliminated. AA and other oneworld airlines have seen phantom JAL premium cabin awards<\/a> for several months. In other words, things are spiraling<\/a>.

    The fact that this happened about 8 months ago <\/a>and eventually fixed itself leads me to believe it’s a bug, though it’s possible it could have been a test back then.
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  5. United Airlines has a partner drive for donated miles to Give A Mile<\/a>, worthy 501(c)(3) charity that helps reconnect families facing an imminent death. This drive runs through June 21, and even a few thousand miles helps (Thanks to Gary at VFTW<\/a>)
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  6. The Paze frenzy in the churning space<\/a> has been unmatched since the Great Premium Hyatt credit card rumor frenzy of February 2026<\/a>. The major updates:

    – Each Paze eligible card now has ten $10 off of $10+ statement credits through the end of the month
    – 10x earning on up to $1,500 spend monthly on Chase cards is still there
    – Newegg was removed from eligible Paze merchants for most purchases thanks to blatant abuse
    – Newegg will be removed entirely from Paze on July 1
    – Other banks have Paze eligible cards with Paze games waiting

    Can I Paze someone to have everyone stop talking about it now?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Happy Wednesday, friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    (Cases of) banana for scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Wednesday, friends! (Cases of) banana for scale.<\/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":[60,54,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860","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=13860"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13867,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860\/revisions\/13867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}