{"id":14158,"date":"2026-08-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=14158"},"modified":"2026-08-19T22:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:45:32","slug":"thursday-big-flyingblue-devaluation-grocery-promos-jetblue-merchant-offer-and-equinox-footnote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/thursday-big-flyingblue-devaluation-grocery-promos-jetblue-merchant-offer-and-equinox-footnote\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: Big FlyingBlue Devaluation, Grocery Promos, JetBlue Merchant Offer, and Equinox Footnote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Air France \/ KLM FlyingBlue is devaluing mileage redemptions by introducing three fare classes for all cabins on September 8<\/a>: Light, Standard, and Flex. Light means fewer or no checked bags, no refunds, seat assignments carry a fee, lounge access isn’t included. Standard is fairly close to the status quo, and Flex includes free changes and refunds. How is this a devaluation? Let’s look at low-level business class transatlantic award redemption costs:

    – Light: 60,000 miles
    – Standard: 75,000 miles
    – Flex: 110,000 miles

    So what you used to get for 60,000 miles will now cost you an extra +15,000 miles. It brings me absolutely no pleasure to report that     I thought we’d see a devaluation when Tiffany Funk took over<\/a> as the FlyingBlue leader. I also think we haven’t seen the last FlyingBlue devaluation in the coming year. Spend any FlyingBlue miles you have quickly.
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  2. Kroger stores will have a 4x fuel points promotion Friday through Sunday<\/a> on third party gift cards excluding Amazon and fuel retailer gift cards.

    Best Buy is still hard out there, but Best Buy also isn’t the only game in town.
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  3. Meijer mPerks has a promotion for 10,000 points with $100+ in Mastercard gift cards<\/a> through Tuesday, limit one per mPerks account.

    These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.
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  4. Citi Merchant Offers has a card linked offer for $50 off of $400+ in JetBlue spend <\/a>through September 30.
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  5. Bilt added Equinox redemptions for its Itchy and Scratchy money for classes and spa sessions<\/a>. The redemption amount is tied directly to your Bilt Status. There are also coupons for new Equinox memberships which are, uhh<\/em>, something.

    Coming soon: An Equinox credit card. Source? I made it up, but watch for it anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Happy Thursday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Equinox personal training session, courtesy of Bilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Thursday! Equinox personal training session, courtesy of Bilt.<\/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":[60,53,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-gift-cards","category-miles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158","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=14158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14161,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14158\/revisions\/14161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}