{"id":9557,"date":"2024-04-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=9557"},"modified":"2024-04-22T23:52:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T05:52:27","slug":"tuesday-quad-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/tuesday-quad-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Quad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. American Express Membership Rewards has a 30% transfer bonus to Virgin Atlantic<\/a> through the end of May. These are best for:

    – Delta One to and from Europe in business
    –     Necker Island trips<\/a>
    – Air New Zealand business to and from the US

    They have decent availability on their own metal for premium cabin space too, but fuel surcharges are high so it’s usually a more useful mental model to think about those as roughly the same price as a coach ticket plus some miles for business class redemptions.
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  2. Express (unrelated to the American version; also both a clothing store and a former a medium tier gift card on the resale markets) has filed for bankruptcy<\/a>. It’s time to think seriously about what to do with inventory you’re holding, and to reinforce that holding inventory carries risk. (Thanks to GCG<\/a>)
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  3. Virgin Australia flights are now bookable with Qatar Avios<\/a> at attractive rates, especially for short and medium haul economy.
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  4. Kent Brockman famously said that democracy doesn’t work<\/a>, and reddit added a datapoint to that debate<\/a> after I declared that US Bank is the most ghetto bank<\/a>. According to the popular vote<\/a>, the most ghetto banks in decreasing order are:

    – Citi
    – Bank of America
    – Barclays

    US Bank didn’t even make the top three. Why is Citi less ghetto than US Bank? Because pay by phone friends, pay by phone.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    US Bank’s corporate landscaping signage presents additional evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    US Bank’s corporate landscaping signage presents additional evidence.<\/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":[53,64,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift-cards","category-points","category-shenanigans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557","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=9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9567,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557\/revisions\/9567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}