{"id":14362,"date":"2026-10-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=14362"},"modified":"2026-10-01T22:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:55:13","slug":"weekend-news-dump-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/weekend-news-dump-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend News Dump: Watch Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Buckle in for this one, it’s a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Do this now (if you have a Chase United Card)<\/strong>: Register for bonus MileagePlus miles in Q4<\/a>. I got spend $9,000, earn 5,000 miles \ud83d\ude44.
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  2. Bilt is dropping the transfer ratio for Hyatt points from 1:1 to 1:0.75<\/a> starting on January 1. Why? There are several reasons (I assume):

    – Hyatt charges Bilt more than its other partners
    – Chase paved the road with     its devaluation<\/a>
    – They wanted to see how affiliates downplay the devaluation
    – Richard Kerr doesn’t like puppies

    To Bilt’s credit, you’ve got three months notice of impending doom.
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  3. The Citi ThankYou Mastercard has new targeted offers<\/a> that apparently haven’t been emailed or mailed out, but are showing up on the offers dashboard<\/a>. New offers include:

    – 1,500 ThankYou Points after $750+ spend, can be earned twice
    – $50 after $750+ spend, can be earned twice

    Thanks to reader Lance for prodding me to check the dashboard.
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  4. Chase’s Q4 Pay Yourself Back categories changed slightly<\/a>, adding grocery, department stores, and wholesale clubs as eligible categories on personal cards. They removed gas, pet supply, and veterinary services.
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  5. Chase’s United cards have increased bonuses<\/a>, each of which has 10,000 bonus miles for adding an authorized user:

    – Club: 90,000+10,000 miles after $5,000 spend in three months
    – Quest: 80,000+10,000 miles after $4,000 spend in three months
    – Explorer: 70,000+10,000 miles after $3,000 spend in three months
    – Gateway: 40,000+10,000 miles after $1,000 spend in three months

    Use a referral for these friends!
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  6. Chase changed its IHG cards<\/a>:

    Business<\/strong>
    – Annual fee increased from $99 to $200
    – Free night worth 50,000 points
    – Lots of stupid coupons including $25 quarterly in food credits at IHG
    – $100 airline credit with $250+ annual airline spend
    – 15 elite nights annually

    Premier<\/strong>
    – Annual fee increased from $99 to $150
    – Gold status instead of previous platinum
    – Free night worth 50,000 points
    – Lots of stupid coupons including $25 quarterly in food credits at IHG
    – $100 airline credit with $250+ annual airline spend
    – 15 elite nights annually

    Premier Select (new card)<\/strong>
    – Annual fee increased from divide-by-zero to $350
    – 200,000 points after $5,000 spend in three months
    – 6x on dining and travel, 3x elsewhere
    – Free night worth 60,000 points and another <\/em>after $40,000 annual spend
    – Lots of stupid coupons including $75 quarterly in food credits at IHG
    – $200 airline credit with $250+ annual airline spend
    – 20 elite nights annually, earn more with spend
    – Another Global Entry credit to throw in the pile

    One<\/strong>
    – Five elite nights annually

    The new Premier Select card is a great card for the first year (only).
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  7. United has a new status match through October 15 that includes 1K for Delta Diamonds and AA Executive Platinums<\/a>. You get 90 days of status and a challenge to keep it through the end of January 2028 based on your spend and travel in those 90 days.
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  8. American Express Business Gold cards have an annoying $20 per month credit<\/a> usable at office supply, Grubhub, and starting yesterday, UPS. Just don’t forget to enroll<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Did you make it this far? You earned an endurance cookie. What’s an endurance cookie?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    This.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Buckle in for this one, it’s a lot. Did you make it this far? You earned an endurance cookie. What’s an endurance cookie? This.<\/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":[54,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362","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=14362"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14371,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362\/revisions\/14371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}