{"id":8476,"date":"2023-10-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=8476"},"modified":"2023-10-26T21:46:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T03:46:54","slug":"news-dump-weekend-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/27\/news-dump-weekend-style\/","title":{"rendered":"News Dump, Weekend Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s time to jump into the pre-Halloween weekend, but before you turn into a pumpkin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Southwest has extended its schedule through August 4th<\/a>, which includes most of summer’s travel season. As a general rule, booking summer travel in autumn often means there will be schedule changes, and with Southwest schedule changes often mean a free change to any other flight between the same city pairs \u00b12 weeks.
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  2. Chase Southwest cards have increased sign-up bonuses of 75,000 Rapid Rewards<\/a> points on the personal cards, or 80,000 points on the Rapid Rewards Business card. These offers aren’t all-time highs, but they are interesting getting two of them and hitting the spend threshold for the bonuses after January 1, 2024 will earn you a Companion Pass through 2025.

    No one out there seems to remember the downside of the Companion Pass though: you’re still on Southwest.
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  3. Office Depot\/OfficeMax stores have $15 off of $300 in Visa gift cards<\/a> starting Sunday and running through the following Saturday. To maximize:

    – Consider that maybe multiples of $300 might behave strangly
    – Link your credit cards to     Dosh<\/a>
    – Try for multiple transactions back-to-back
    – Don’t forget about the American Express Business Gold $20 credit, which you can use twice during the promotional period

    These are Pathward gift cards, and often only work with PIN transactions for a total of $480 every six minutes per store. (Thanks to     DoC<\/a>)
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  4. Do this now:<\/strong> Register for double Avios on up to 10 flights booked<\/a> by November 21 for travel by January 14, 2024. Surprisingly this works with AA, Iberia, and Finnair paid flights credited to BA too.
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  5. Sebastian notes that Bank of America’s Business Unlimited Cash Rewards Mastercard still has a $500 sign-up bonus<\/a> available with $5,000 spend in 90 days. This card is useful because:

    – In conjunction with Bank of America Preferred Rewards Platinum Honors status, this is a 2.625% everywhere card
    – You probably still have time to get it before     More Rewards Day on November 9<\/a>

    Don’t forget that with Bank of America, one card is nice, but more is better. (Vague much, MEAB?)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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

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    Pictured: Your 23 year old companion after the fourth leg on Southwest between Eugene, OR and Greenville, SC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s time to jump into the pre-Halloween weekend, but before you turn into a pumpkin: Have a nice weekend! Pictured: Your 23 year old companion<\/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":[60,54,53,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-ms-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476","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=8476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8479,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions\/8479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}