{"id":8954,"date":"2024-01-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=8954"},"modified":"2024-01-04T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:13:31","slug":"thursday-quad-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/04\/thursday-quad-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Quad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Editor’s note<\/em>: I have a few straggler guest posts ready to go and a few more on the way, so for January and perhaps beyond we’ll be doing guest post Saturdays, making this a six day a week blog, or a 20% increase in content. Hooray for progress<\/s> science<\/s> math<\/s> Stanley cups<\/s> guest authors!.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Do this now:<\/strong> Check for targeted spending bonuses on your Chase cards<\/a>, both co-brand and first party. Offers reported:

    – 10x points at grocery, gas, and Amazon for up to $1,000 in spend
    – 5x points at grocery, gas, and Amazon for up to $1,000 in spend
    – 10,000 bonus points on $110 or more in hotel bookings in 2024
    – $35 back on HBO<\/s> Max after $99 in cumulative spend through September \ud83e\udd21\ud83e\udd21\ud83e\udd21

    It’s best practice with these to use a new incognito tab for each card in your portfolio. (Thanks to     TIP<\/a>)
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  2. Alaska has a paid and award flight sale<\/a>, and it’s one of the better ones in recent memory. I’m seeing:

    – Short-haul to medium-haul domestic: 4,500 miles
    – Long haul domestic: 9,000-10,000 miles
    – Hawaii: 9,000 miles
    – Mexico: 9,000-10,000 miles

    Book by tomorrow night. The sale seems to cover travel through the end of March, but I can’t find that written anywhere so look around.
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  3. Southwest also has a paid and award flight sale running through tomorrow night<\/a>, but it’s not a heavy-hitter sale like Alaska, but more of a lightweight 90 pound hot-dog leg kind of sale. This one is valid for travel between January 26 and May 22.

    For those keeping track at home, I repriced six upcoming flights all booked in the last week. Two were significantly cheaper, two were the same price, and two were slightly more expensive.
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  4. Kroger is running a 4x fuel points promotion on third party gift cards<\/a> and fixed value Visas and Mastercards Friday through Sunday, and brokers are lining up with fresh inventory like Starbucks shoppers lining up for pink Stanley cups<\/a> I expect rates to be strong.

    Side note: I was today years old when I learned what a Stanley cup was, hockey jokes aside.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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

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    Southwest’s award sale in humanoid-food form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Editor’s note: I have a few straggler guest posts ready to go and a few more on the way, so for January and perhaps beyond<\/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-8954","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\/8954","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=8954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8958,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions\/8958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}