{"id":13876,"date":"2026-06-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13876"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:48:00","slug":"friday-catchup-q3-5x-portal-bonus-credit-card-updates-airline-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/friday-catchup-q3-5x-portal-bonus-credit-card-updates-airline-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Catchup: Q3 5x, Portal Bonus, Credit Card Updates, Airline News,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Do this now: Register for 5x Q3 categories:

    – Chase Freedom (Flex)<\/a>: Gas, EV charging, public transit, “select” live entertainment, and the United Way
    –     Discover IT<\/a>: Gas, transportation, and drug stores
    –     Citi Dividend<\/a>: Gas and home improvement
    –     US Bank Cash+<\/a>: I choose utilities and electronics

    Gas stations are the obvious angle for gamers.
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  2. The Southwest Rapid Rewards Shopping portal has a 2,000 bonus miles with $200+ spend<\/a> through June 29.

    Giftcards.com is the obvious angle for gamers.
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  3. Barclays re-tooled its Wyndham card portfolio<\/a>. The highlights:

    – New     Wyndham Rewards Earner Premier Visa<\/a> 4x on dining, grocery, and travel; $395 annual fee; 90,000 points after $6,000 spend in four months, 30,000 more points after $750+ at Wyndham hotel properties; lots of stupid coupons; Diamond status
    – Updated personal and business cards: annual fees go up, manufactured spend friendly category multipliers go down, sign-up bonuses go up, new stupid coupons, miles don’t expire
    – Existing cardholders retain existing benefits and spending category multipliers, will be able to switch to the new versions of the cards in the nebulous future

    There’s a lot of minutiae in this one,     for more detail see this Doctor of Credit post<\/a>. The tl;dr though is that this sucks for gamers.
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  4. Qatar Avios restricted award bookings<\/a>, specifically:

    – Bookings are restricted to first party and a maximum of 10 other people
    – 6 of the other people are from your “    Family & Friends<\/a>” pool
    – 4 of the other people are form your “    My List<\/a>” profile
    – Those 10 accounts must have a Qatar credit card or flight credited to the Avios account and be at least 30 days old, though transfers from FinnAir also seem to work

    Now is a good time to create accounts for other players that don’t have them yet.
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  5. The AA eShopping portal has giftcards.com at 2.5x as of this writing<\/a>, great for AA status gamers. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    How does this one affect gamers? There’s way too much here to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How does this one affect gamers? There’s way too much here to know.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876","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=13876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13881,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions\/13881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}