{"id":5924,"date":"2022-12-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:12:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:12:22","slug":"thursdays-airline-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/08\/thursdays-airline-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday\u2019s Airline News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. There\u2019s a short window to book Emirates economy and business class awards with Aeroplan miles<\/a> at a lower than normal rate and with no fuel surcharges. In a few weeks they\u2019ll be publishing an Emirates specific award chart with higher cost, and some unspecified time after that the cost will get even higher, so now is a decent time to lock in any awards. (Thanks to VFTW<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  2. JetBlue is revamping its frequent flyer plan for 2023<\/a> and adding new status tiers. There\u2019s a lot of \u201cblah blah blah\u201d in here, but there\u2019s also a nugget for gamers: top tier status will include six Mint upgrade certificates and four Blade helicopter airport transfers in New York, and you can earn top tier status completely with manufactured<\/s> spend on a co-branded JetBlue card, much like with AA and with Delta. To compare:\n

    \u2013 Delta Diamond: $250,000 co-branded credit card spend and earning 125,000 MQM (gaming is possible with AmEx shanigans)
    \u2013 AA Executive Platinum: $200,000 co-branded credit card spend (gaming is very possible with portals and SimplyMiles)
    \u2013 JetBlue Mosaic 4: $250,000 co-branded credit card spend<\/li>\n

  3. British Airways has added a way to pay more Avios and less cash<\/a> for surcharges with the poorly named \u201cReward Flight Saver\u201d tier for award redemptions. Travel hackers should note that this is probably a bad deal on flights leaving the UK, but may be a decent deal on flights to the UK which have higher surcharges.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Yesterday\u2019s JetBlue press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There\u2019s a short window to book Emirates economy and business class awards with Aeroplan miles at a lower than normal rate and with no fuel<\/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":[60,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924","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=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6885,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}