{"id":2162,"date":"2021-08-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:23:37","slug":"chase-wednesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/04\/chase-wednesday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move straight out of American Express\u2019s playbook, Chase stole the show in the last 24 hours:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> The travel hacking blogosphere blew up yesterday with article heads like:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-ek-indent\" style=\"--ek-indent:20px\">\u201c<em>ZOMG!!!! Aeroplan Transfers have come to Chase and they\u2019re launching a MIND-BLOWING Aeroplan credit card soon too!!!1!!<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true, you can now transfer your Chase points to Aeroplan which is mildly useful and somewhat complimentary to Star Alliance awards with Chase\u2019s transfers to United, especially when 1) used for domestic United flights and for 2) flights with a stop-over. Just make sure you run the numbers on both United and Aeroplan before deciding where to transfer your miles for an award. You\u2019d never transfer miles without a particular award booking in-mind, right?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also true that an Aeroplan credit card is coming to Chase, and at some point it may be something you want to include in your portfolio for the sign-up bonus. Toward that end, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aircanada.com\/us\/en\/aco\/home\/aeroplan\/credit-cards\/chase.html\">register here for a bonus 10,000 points<\/a> on top of the normal sign-up offer at launch, in case you end up going for it. Just promise me you won\u2019t buy into the hype, ok?<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> The <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/owziaw\/daily_discussion_thread_august_03_2021\/h7jpf5l\/\">referral bonus for Southwest cards<\/a> has increased to 20,000 points per referral with a cap of 100,000 points earned from referrals per calendar year. <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/19\/weekend-bit-of-wisdom\/\">Never refer yourself<\/a>, but by all means refer a Player 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chase.com\/mybonus\/\">Check your Chase Southwest cards<\/a> for a spending bonus of 1,000 Rapid Rewards points for spending $1,000 at restaurants, home improvement stores, and drug stores before October 31. (<a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chase.com\/mybonus\/swa21\">Thanks to DoC<\/a>, though <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chase.com\/mybonus\/swa21\">the link<\/a> in his article doesn\u2019t seem to be correct as of this writing.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A picture of a drawing pad with a child's drawing of a girl on one side and practice words on the other. \" class=\"wp-image-2163\" height=\"298\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/amex-playbook.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/amex-playbook.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/amex-playbook-300x199.jpeg 300w\" width=\"450\"\/><figcaption>The American Express playbook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move straight out of American Express\u2019s playbook, Chase stole the show in the last 24 hours: 1. The travel hacking blogosphere blew up<\/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":[54,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2162","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\/2162","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=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7235,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/7235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}