{"id":5473,"date":"2022-10-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=5473"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:21:35","slug":"wednesday-airline-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/05\/wednesday-airline-frenzy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Airline Frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Southwest is having a nationwide fare sale<\/a> for travel from November 29 through February 15 until tomorrow. It\u2019s worth double-checking any bookings you\u2019ve got during that time too, I had one particular flight drop from approximately 4,800 points to 1,111 points. The new price is the equivalent of a $16 fare, which frankly is bananas. (Thanks to Javier via MEAB slack)<\/li>\n
  2. Bask bank accounts increased the earning rate on deposits<\/a> to 1.5 AA miles per dollar on deposit. That\u2019s nice I guess, but with interest rates climbing above 3% (or much higher with a little effort<\/a>) I\u2019d take this news item as a good point to evaluate whether or not your money is still best parked at Bask. I\u2019d say it\u2019s probably not.<\/li>\n
  3. With the new month, there are new airline transfer bonuses running:\n

    \u2013 30% Ultimate Rewards to Virgin Atlantic<\/a>, use for business class to Europe or ANA business and first to Southeast Asia through November 12
    \u2013     25% Membership Rewards to Choice Hotels (targeted)<\/a>, use Citi points instead for the Ascend collection through October 31
    \u2013     20% Membership Rewards to Marriott Hotels (targeted)<\/a>, don\u2019t bother. Instead, cash-out<\/a> and use that to pay for your stay. <\/li>\n

  4. Barclays has again increased its sign-up bonuses on business co-branded airline cards, including a statement credit that offsets the annual fee:\n

    \u2013 JetBlue 80,000 TrueBlue miles and a $99 statement credit<\/a> after $2,000 in spend in 90 days
    \u2013     AA 80,000 AAdvantage miles and a $95 statement credit<\/a> after $2,000 in spend in 90 days<\/p>\n

    The Hawaiian business card also has an elevated 90,000 mile sign-up bonus<\/a> after $8,000 in spend, but no statement credit. Don\u2019t forget to read about clowning with Barclays<\/a> to maximize your applications.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n

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    An airline frenzy \u2014 given the state of the airframes I\u2019d guess these are meant to be Allegiant planes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Southwest is having a nationwide fare sale for travel from November 29 through February 15 until tomorrow. It\u2019s worth double-checking any bookings you\u2019ve got during<\/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":[60,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-credit-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473","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=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6931,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions\/6931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}