{"id":7999,"date":"2023-07-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=7999"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:54:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T04:54:53","slug":"7999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/7999\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Grab Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
    \n
  1. Alaska and American’s shopping portals now have spending bonuses to match United and Southwest’s:

    – Alaska: 1,200 bonus miles for $600 or more in spend<\/a> through August 14
    – AA: 2,000 bonus miles for $700 in or more in spend through August 13

    For AA Loyalty Point hunters, remember that portal bonuses don’t become Loyalty Points but regular spend does, often even when it shouldn’t.
    <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Alaska Airlines has a great promotion for flights between Kona, Hawaii<\/a> and the continental US with promo code KONABOGO<\/em>: Buy one, get one free tickets booked by this evening for travel between August 13 and October 31. There are day-of-week requirements but they’re not too onerous. Given Alaska’s route map, this should be extra exciting for best coasters<\/s> west coasters.

    Word on the street is that the BOGO isn\u2019t actually coding properly in the buyer’s favor, don’t be afraid to experiment.
    <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Alaska also has a 10% off flights to and from other Hawaiian cities<\/a> using the same promo code, KONABOGO<\/em>.
    <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. American Express Offers<\/a> has new Delta airfare statement credits:

    – $75 off of $250 or more
    – $150 off of $500 or more

    The absolute simplest way to game these is to book a non-basic economy flight, wait more than 24 hours, then cancel it. You’ll have a flight credit valid for a year, effectively locking the offer in for later. That concludes offer gaming 101. Now, study for 201 and 202.
    <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Everyone seems to be really excited that American Express Fine Hotels and Resorts bookings can now be changed<\/a>. I guess it’s not unexciting, but personally I think that the true hack this could unlock won’t actually work. Go ahead AmEx, prove me wrong.
    <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. In theory American Express has targeted more people at last year’s link for the Personal Gold card<\/a> with 100,000 Membership Rewards after $4,000 in spend in three months; I haven’t been able to independently confirm this one though. (Thanks to DoC<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n\n\n

    \n
    \"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

    American Express is out there playing 1D chess to outwit our puny 2D chess playing, FHR booking brains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Tuesday! American Express is out there playing 1D chess to outwit our puny 2D chess playing, FHR booking brains.<\/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":[64,76,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-points","category-portals","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999","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=7999"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8004,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions\/8004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}