{"id":7805,"date":"2023-06-16T09:29:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T15:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=7805"},"modified":"2023-06-16T09:29:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T15:29:41","slug":"weekend-quad-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/16\/weekend-quad-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Quad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delta.com\/us\/en\/skymiles\/airline-credit-cards\/american-express-business-cards\" class=\"ek-link\">The American Express Delta personal and business cards both have increased offers<\/a>, but the business ones are the juicier versions and don&#8217;t affect 5\/24:<br><br>&#8211; Business Gold: 70,000 SkyMiles after $3,000 spend in three months<br>&#8211; Business Platinum: 90,000 SkyMiles after $4,000 spend in three months<br>&#8211; Business Reserve: 100,000 SkyMiles after $6,000 spend in three months<br><br>Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dansdeals.com\/points-travel\/airlines\/delta\/delta-continues-massively-devalue-skypesos\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Delta SkyMiles can suck<\/a>, and yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/25\/hot-take-skymiles-are-valuable\/\" class=\"ek-link\">they can be great too<\/a>. Don&#8217;t use them for business class out of the US and you&#8217;ll probably get decent value, and worst case co-brand cardholders can use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delta.com\/us\/en\/skymiles\/airline-credit-cards\/pay-with-miles\" class=\"ek-link\">pay with miles<\/a> for a floor of 1 cent per mile.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staples.com\/lp\/weekly-ad\" class=\"ek-link\">Staples continues the endless stream of office supply store gift card deals<\/a> with fee-free $200 Mastercard gift cards starting Sunday and running through Saturday of next week, limit eight per transaction. <br><br>Call me a rebel but I prefer the Mastercards, even if they&#8217;re issued by Pathward like these.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimaterewardspoints.chase.com\/transfer-points\/list-programs\" class=\"ek-link\">There&#8217;s a 20% Ultimate Rewards transfer bonus to Air Canada Aeroplan<\/a>  through July 31. Aeroplan is now arguably the best Chase airline transfer partner for international trips even without the bonus, so the 20% is icing on the cake. <br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/18\/on-devaluations\/\" class=\"ek-link\">I wouldn&#8217;t transfer speculatively<\/a> though: you&#8217;ve got a month and a half to transfer and book trips, and if that doesn&#8217;t work out another bonus will show up soon enough.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/creditcards.chase.com\/business-credit-cards\/IHG\/business-premier\" class=\"ek-link\">Chase IHG Business card has a sign-up bonus of 165,000 points<\/a> after spending $3,000 in the first three months. I know some of y&#8217;all like the recently increased Chase Marriott bonus offers, but I&#8217;d take this $99 annual fee card and bonus over those any day. Now we just need to lobby to bring back <a href=\"https:\/\/loyaltylobby.com\/2020\/02\/03\/goodbye-point-breaks-what-was-your-favorite-ihg-point-breaks-award-since-inception\/\" class=\"ek-link\">IHG PointBreaks<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7806\" width=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3.png 970w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Office supply stores reflecting on gift card sales this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office supply stores reflecting on gift card sales this year.<\/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":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805","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=7805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7807,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805\/revisions\/7807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}