{"id":14509,"date":"2026-10-30T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=14509"},"modified":"2026-10-29T23:08:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:08:05","slug":"weekend-triple-southwest-cards-meijer-and-the-gift-card-calm-before-the-holiday-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/weekend-triple-southwest-cards-meijer-and-the-gift-card-calm-before-the-holiday-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend: Southwest Cards, Meijer, AA F Discount, United F Downgrade, and the Gift Card Calm Before the Holiday Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The Chase Southwest Rapid Rewards Priority and Premier Visa cards<\/a> have increased sign-up bonuses, and both should be available for referrals either today or Monday:

    – Priority: 90,000 points after $3,000 spend in three months, $229 annual fee is not<\/em> waived the first year
    – Premier: 85,000 points after $2,000 spend in three months, $149 annual fee is not<\/em> waived the first year

    Getting two of these cards and hitting spend before the end of the year is likely your last opportunity for a Companion Pass before the program no longer counts sign-up bonuses toward qualification in 2027.
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  2. Meijer stores have 10,000 mPerks points<\/a> with the purchase of $100+ in Visa or Mastercard gift cards through November 10.

    These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.
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  3. AA has a buy-one-get-one-20%-off discount on paid First tickets to and from ORD<\/a>, booked by November 4 and flown by February 28, 2027. There are blackouts around the holidays.
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  4. United “First Base” fares have now launched domestically<\/a>. What are we looking at?

    – Seat assignments aren’t free
    – Only one checked bag
    – $199 change fees
    – Non-Base fare upcharges are     reportedly exceedingly high<\/a>

    Scott Kirby also claims they’re more fun.
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  5. Stop & Shop<\/a>, Giant<\/a>, Martins<\/a>, and Giant Food<\/a> stores have 6x points on third-party gift cards through Thursday.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Have a nice spooky weekend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The calm before the costume storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have a nice spooky weekend! The calm before the costume storm.<\/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-14509","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\/14509","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=14509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14514,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14509\/revisions\/14514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}