Well a few short hours into December 31, reports came in that United TravelBank had been taken offline<\/a>. There was an ensuing panic in just about every forum that I\u2019m affiliated with. Fortunately the panic was short-lived, TravelBank came back yesterday afternoon<\/a> and hundreds of hackers rushed to cash out credits within minutes.<\/p>\n Was rushing to cash-out a mistake? Honestly I think so even though it\u2019ll probably work out just fine.<\/p>\n I have a compulsive urge to knock out all of my yearly credit card annual credits as early as possible at the start of a new year so that I don\u2019t have to think about them all the way until December 31, and I have zero doubt that many of you are exactly the same. That said, I\u2019ve learned to hold back and wait for data-points to come in regarding what works in the new year and what doesn\u2019t, and I hope you\u2019ll do the same. There are legion travel hackers out there who have already all tried to cash out their 2022 credits in non-perscribed ways for:<\/p>\n But, there isn\u2019t yet a datapoint that any of the opportunities that worked last year continue to work now, simply because not enough time has passed for a credit to post. In fact, many things change when the calendar does, like, I don\u2019t know, United TravelBank going offline. <\/p>\n So, maybe wait a few days so we know that what worked last year will continue to work so that you\u2019re not stuck with an unreimbursed $200 charge? If you\u2019ve already become the data point, I sincerely appreciate it and I understand it at my core, but that\u2019s not how I\u2019m playing it (anymore). We\u2019ll all learn from your hard work and we\u2019ll all be grateful for your data-point.<\/p>\n Happy travel credit hacking!<\/p>\n Foreward In 2021, the simplest way to cash out travel incidental credits on American Express cards, PenFed Pathfinder cards, Bank of America Premium Rewards, and<\/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":2,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505","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=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7127,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions\/7127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Being Level-Headed<\/h4>\n
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