{"id":8017,"date":"2023-07-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2023-07-29T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T17:12:10","slug":"wekend-triple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/28\/wekend-triple\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Triple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. United has a new round of targeted MileagePlay promotions<\/a>, check yours and rebook any flights as necessary since pre-existing bookings won’t count. These typically range between awful and decent, with a moderate bias toward the former.

    I beat the     Poisson distribution<\/a> on this one though, and got a decent offer for 5x bonus miles for booking and flying a single trip through September 20, minimum $100. That one will actually move the needle on a booking for me, so bravo United.
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  2. On Tuesday August 1 you’ll be able to transfer Bilt points to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles<\/a> with rather sizable bonuses of between 75% and 150% depending on your status level with the program<\/a>, which is based on the number of points earned in a calendar year.

    Normally I wouldn’t speculatively transfer miles to any airline that I wasn’t flying on a dozen times a year or more, but I could see my way into doing so with this permission given the high transfer bonuses. Things to keep in mind:

    – Virgin Atlantic is due for a devaluation after they     tried and failed in 2021<\/a>
    – Virgin Atlantic has fees for cancelling and redepositing award tickets ($41-$50)
    – Flying business class on ANA or Delta are the typical sweet spots
    – You’ve often got to call customer service to book award tickets

    So with those caveats, I’d look at what you might book in the next 2-3 months and transfer over enough miles to cover just those bookings, but you do you.
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  3. Do this now (if you have a Marriott co-branded credit card):<\/strong> Register for 10,000 bonus points after $7,000 or more in spend<\/a> through September 30. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Have a nice weekend!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Top: US Airline on-time performance distribution
    Bottom: Spirit Airlines on-time performance distribution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have a nice weekend! Top: US Airline on-time performance distributionBottom: Spirit Airlines on-time performance distribution<\/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":[60,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-miles","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017","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=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8021,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions\/8021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}