{"id":3610,"date":"2022-01-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:59:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:59:47","slug":"monday-deluge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/17\/monday-deluge\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Deluge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What started out as a slow weekend turned into a landslide:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> In September there was a backdoor way to turn an American Express Clear credit into $100 in United TravelBank credit through a promotion for a new Clear account. <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clearme.com\/partner\/united-trial-clr-tcwldui\">The offer is now back<\/a>, and it\u2019s still a way to turn a Clear statement credit into a quick TravelBank hundo. The caveats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The $100 TravelBank credit expires after six months<\/li>\n<li>You <em>have<\/em> to fly United or United Express to pay for airfare with TravelBank funds<\/li>\n<li>TravelBank funds can\u2019t be used to pay for therapy or liquor, even on a United flight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last time you didn\u2019t actually need to complete enrollment at an airport for the $100 credit to show up in your account, likely it\u2019ll be no different this time. <\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Check <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chase.com\/personal\/merchant-offers\">your Chase Offers<\/a> for 10% or 15% back up to $37 for charges at a Hyatt property from now through Valentine\u2019s day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> The demise of the Citi Premier 80,000 points bonus has been greatly overstated. <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/citicards.citi.com\/usc\/Multi\/tab\/SL\/Featured\/PS\/DV\/default.htm?tab=rewards\">You can still find it at this link<\/a>, and don\u2019t forget that <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?s=citi+premier\">you can get this bonus multiple times<\/a> as long as you space your applications out by more than 8 days and you hit the bonus spending threshold after all of your applications are in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Since around Christmas time reports have surfaced that the American Express Blue Business Plus card has been eligible for the 1.9 Million Membership Rewards offer for adding employee cards (20,000 points per employee card that meets the minimum threshold spend, up to 99 employees). To see if you\u2019re eligible, you\u2019ll have to call American Express and ask if there are any offers for adding employees to your card.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Business Plus variant of this offer is better than <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?s=99\">the Business Platinum variant<\/a> though, because the threshold for earning 20,000 bonus Membership Rewards is $2,000 in spend versus the $4,000 spend requirement on the Business Platinum. If you maximize this deal it becomes a 12x everywhere offer for up to $50,000 in spend and 11x everywhere for the remaining $49,000 in spend, wowza.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/freequentflyerbook.com\/\">The Free-quent Flyer<\/a> has an excellent post on how to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/freequentflyerbook.com\/blog\/2022\/1\/10\/matching-hyatt-explorist-or-globalist-status-to-mlife-gold-status-in-9-words\">match your Hyatt status to MGM Resorts MLife gold status<\/a>, and the instructions clock in at seven words. I admire the brevity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3613\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/landslide.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/landslide.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/landslide-300x225.jpeg 300w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Pictured: The weekend news dump.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started out as a slow weekend turned into a landslide: 1. 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