{"id":14398,"date":"2026-10-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=14398"},"modified":"2026-10-11T22:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:26:46","slug":"monday-aa-double-status-amex-gets-slapped-gift-cards-and-amex-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/monday-aa-double-status-amex-gets-slapped-gift-cards-and-amex-offers\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday: AA Double Status, AmEx Gets Slapped, Gift Cards, and AmEx offers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exploreamerican.com\/globalsales\/aadvantage-business-loyalty-points-promotion\/\">One of the Citi AA Business Mastercard&#8217;s soft, often under-reported perks is that spend on employee cards earns loyalty points<\/a> for both the employee AA account and the account holder&#8217;s AA account.<br><br>I was surprised when the feature was extended from 2025 into 2026, so color me double surprised that it&#8217;s now been extended through the end of 2028.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?s=bbt\">Ye-olde American Express BBT<\/a> seems to have died, or at least is in long term cryo-storage bug mode. Don&#8217;t know what that is? That&#8217;s ok, it won&#8217;t affect you in that case.<br><br>Possibly related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.occ.gov\/news-issuances\/news-releases\/2026\/nr-occ-2026-87.html\">American Express was fined $350 million last week for insufficient anti-money laundering oversight<\/a>. Also, before you ask: No, the prior paragraph wasn&#8217;t even tangential money laundering, but different people with different focus are sailing the ship now, so keep your game changing.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staples.com\/lp\/easyrewardsoverview\">Staples stores have fee-free $200 Mastercards through Saturday<\/a>, limit nine per transaction.<br><br>These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/giantfood.com\/savings\/weekly-ad\/print-view\">Giant Food has 2x points earning on Mastercard gift cards<\/a> through Thursday, limit $1,500 per account. Meanwhile, sister-stores <a href=\"https:\/\/stopandshop.com\/savings\/weekly-ad\/grid-view\">Stop &amp; Shop<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/giantfoodstores.com\/savings\/weekly-ad\/grid-view\">Giant<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/martinsfoods.com\/savings\/weekly-ad\/grid-view\">Martins<\/a> have 8x points on Zillions gift cards, but the limit is a stupidly low $500 per account.<br><br>These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalone.com\/learn-grow\/money-management\/venture-miles-transfer-partnerships\/\">Capital One has a 20% transfer bonus to British Airways Avios<\/a> through October 31.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/en-us\/benefits\/offers\/\">American Express offers has an offer for $225 off of $1,250+ in spend<\/a> at ITA Airways through November 30 for US originating fares.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Monday, friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-5.png 375w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-5-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-5-300x298.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Next time: Manufactured spend with Ye Olde Mint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday, friends! Next time: Manufactured spend with Ye Olde Mint.<\/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":[54,53,12,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-ms-hints","category-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14398","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=14398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14401,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14398\/revisions\/14401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}