{"id":1513,"date":"2021-05-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:33:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:33:36","slug":"tuesday-double-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/04\/tuesday-double-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.<\/strong> <a aria-label=\"Avianca LifeMiles has a 15% transfer bonus (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lifemiles.com\/deals\/detail-page\/0521US01?\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avianca LifeMiles has a 15% transfer bonus<\/a> when transferring from American Express Membership Rewards between now and May 31, 2021. The LifeMiles award chart has some sweet spots, and it\u2019s a currency that you can game; in fact this was perhaps the most gameable airline mileage program after US Airways ceased to exist, though some of the best loop-holes have since closed. The current award chart has relatively decent prices to Europe at 63,000 miles for Business class or 87,000 miles in International First class, with lots of availability through Star Alliance partners. <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/\">AwardWallet<\/a> has a nice tabular LifeMiles <a aria-label=\"Partner Award Chart (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Avianca-LifeMiles-Partner-Award-Chart.png\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Partner Award Chart<\/a>, and <a aria-label=\"Region Definition (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Life-miles-Regions-New.png\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Region Definition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Make sure that you\u2019ve added a Membership Rewards earning credit card to your Amazon account, then <a aria-label=\"Check here for a widely targeted offer (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=20906611011\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">check here for a widely targeted offer<\/a> of between 20 and 40% off at Amazon when using at least one membership rewards point. I would buy a BestBuy gift card, use exactly one point at checkout, and resell instantly for 96% (or higher with a consignment sale). Correction, I wouldn\u2019t do that, I did do that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A picture of a king chess piece laying down on a chess board, with lots of opposing chess pieces tying it down with string.\" class=\"wp-image-1514\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/checkmate.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/checkmate.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/checkmate-300x260.jpeg 300w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Avianca LifeMiles trying to hold down loop-holes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Avianca LifeMiles has a 15% transfer bonus when transferring from American Express Membership Rewards between now and May 31, 2021. The LifeMiles award chart<\/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":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-quick-hits","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","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=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7301,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/7301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}