{"id":9062,"date":"2024-01-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=9062"},"modified":"2024-01-24T23:30:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T06:30:22","slug":"thursday-triple-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/25\/thursday-triple-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Triple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delta.com\/us\/en\/skymiles\/medallion-program\/status-match-challenge\">Delta introduced a new status challenge<\/a> that gives you 90 days of status and lets you keep it through January 2026 completely with credit card spend. You can match up to Platinum, and that&#8217;s the only level on here that&#8217;s worth while in my opinion, specifically for <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delta.com\/content\/www\/en_US\/skymiles\/medallion-program\/choice-benefits\/choice-benefits.html\">Platinum Choice Benefits<\/a> and Comfort+ seats at booking.<br><br>Assuming you challenge to Platinum, you&#8217;ll need to earn $3,750 MQD to retain it through January 2026. Since we&#8217;re us around here, that probably means $37,500 of manufactured spend in the next 90 days on a Delta Reserve card. Yes, if you know what you&#8217;re doing that can be knocked out in a single day.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heb.com\/digital-coupon\/coupon-detail\/50020668\" class=\"ek-link\">H-E-B stores have<\/a> $10 H-E-B gift cards free with the purchase of $50 or more in Vanilla Visa gift cards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heb.com\/digital-coupon\/coupon-detail\/50020668\" class=\"ek-link\">with a digital coupon<\/a>, limit one per account.<br \/><br \/>Liquidation of these cards is currently rather constrained for in-person channels, often you&#8217;re limited to three at a time per store, per random time unit. (Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/gcgalore.com\/h-e-b-buy-50-vanilla-visas-gift-cards-get-10-h-e-b-gift-cards-free-ends-1-30-24\/\" class=\"ek-link\">GCG<\/a>)<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jal.co.jp\/en\/jmb\/financial-point\/?r=inbound\">Barclays has a 30% transfer bonus for JAL Mileage Bank<\/a>, the San Francisco 49ers of mileage programs given its ability to scoop up business and first class awards and upset the competition. The bonus runs through February 15, and won&#8217;t post until after the promotion completes.<br><br>The transfer ratio is normally 11,500 Arrival points to 5,000 JAL miles, which works out to be a 23:10 ratio (a number obviously chosen because Barclays hates its customers). With a 30% bonus, that becomes a much more standard 23:13 ratio.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-16-1024x721.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9065\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-16-1024x721.png 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-16-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-16-768x541.png 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-16-1536x1081.png 1536w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-16-1320x929.png 1320w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-16.png 1696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Ratios visualized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ratios visualized.<\/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":[19,6,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miles","category-quick-hits","category-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062","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=9062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9067,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062\/revisions\/9067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}