{"id":14463,"date":"2026-10-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=14463"},"modified":"2026-10-21T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:52:08","slug":"thursday-alaska-cards-southwest-plus-and-minus-gift-cards-30-to-virgin-atlantic-and-new-long-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/thursday-alaska-cards-southwest-plus-and-minus-gift-cards-30-to-virgin-atlantic-and-new-long-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday: Alaska Cards, Southwest Plus and Minus, Gift Cards, 30% to Virgin Atlantic, and new Long Haul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The Bank of America Alaska cards have increased sign-up bonuses:<\/a>

    – Summit: 100,000 miles and a 25,000 mile companion award after $6,000 spend in 90 days
    – Ascent: 80,000 miles and a $99 companion fare after $5,000 spend in 90 days
    – Business: 70,000 miles and a $99 companion fare after $4,000 spend in 90 days

    The good news? It’s not Southwest.
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  2. The Southwest Rapid Rewards Plus Visa<\/a> has an increased sign-up bonus of 80,000 miles<\/a> after $1,000 spend in three months.

    The bad news? Well, Southwest.
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  3. Kroger stores have a 4x fuel point promotion on third party gift cards<\/a> other than Amazon and flexible fuel cards through November 3.

    For those keeping track at home, things are bleak but not dead in Kroger fuel points land.
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  4. Giftcards.com has a bonus $10 gift card with a $100 Visa Virtual gift card<\/a> using promo code TREATMORE<\/em>, limit three per account.

    This promo code is showing on the portals, so make sure to     use one<\/a>.
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  5. Capital One has a 30% transfer bonus to Virgin Atlantic<\/a> through November 20, making the ratio 1:1.3.
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  6. Alaska is adding two new long-haul flights:<\/a>

    – Seattle – Osaka, 4x weekly starting May 14, 2027
    – Seattle – Tahiti, 3x weekly starting June 11, 2027

    Availability is often best right at route launch.
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  7. InComm Incentives launched new promos<\/a> for gift card purchases:

    – 1% off and no fees on $25,000 for existing customers using JOY26<\/em>
    – 1% off and no fees on $50,000 for new customers using WELCOME26<\/em>

    These are Incomm gift cards. (Thanks to     GCA<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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

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    Let’s be Southwest positive for a change: At least the party seats are gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Thursday! Let’s be Southwest positive for a change: At least the party seats are gone.<\/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-14463","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\/14463","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=14463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14468,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14463\/revisions\/14468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}