{"id":9709,"date":"2024-05-23T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=9709"},"modified":"2024-05-23T11:32:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:32:56","slug":"thursday-quad-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/thursday-quad-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Quad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s a roller coaster today friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Cardless has launched its co-branded Avianca Lifemiles cards<\/a>. Both are third party American Express cards which are typically interesting in their own rite, and both give you Star Alliance Silver which isn’t even good for a free checked bag. Both<\/s> Elite also gives you a complimentary Lifemiles+ Lite subscription which gets you a 10% rebate on award bookings. The cards:

    Lifemiles<\/a>:
    – 40,000 miles after $3,000 spend in 90 days
    – 2x on groceries and restaurants
    – $99 annual fee

    Lifemiles Elite<\/a>:
    – 60,000 miles after $4,500 spend in 90 days
    – 40,000 more miles after another $20,500 spend in the first year
    – 2x on groceries on restaurants (with a negligible bonus at times)
    – $249 annual fee

    Unless you have special American Express shenanigans, both of these cards should probably be a pass. Just get an American Express, Capital One, or Citi card with better benefits and earning potential that can transfer to Lifemiles instead.
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  2. Chase has targeted mailers and in-branch business bank offers for 120,000 Ultimate Rewards on the Chase Ink Unlimited card<\/a>. Typically these targeted mailers and in-branch offers bypass 5\/24 and work up to 8\/24.

    Side note for those of you who don’t concern yourselves with social constructs like account longevity: You can also often buy mailers on ebay.
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  3. Southwest has a companion pass promotion<\/a> that’s a little too specific:

    –     Register for the promotion<\/a>
    – Book two one-ways or one trip by tomorrow night, but they can’t be 100% points bookings
    – Travel to and from Hawaii in June or July
    – Earn a companion pass valid from October 5 to November 15

    Existing bookings don’t count, and the companion pass travel period is rather lame too. In other Southwest news, yes     you can find Southwest on Google Flights now<\/a>, and yes every blogger out there will right no fewer than one articles about it, even though if you’re a regular Google Flights user you’d discover it yourself really quickly. Hooray for capitalism right?
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  4. Giftcards.com is currently 2.5x on the AA shopping portal<\/a>, and 2x on other major airline portals.

    These are Pathward gift cards.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    A MEAB reader prepares for today’s post; picture snapped before disappointment set in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s a roller coaster today friends. A MEAB reader prepares for today’s post; picture snapped before disappointment set in.<\/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":[60,54,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-credit-cards","category-portals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9709","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=9709"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9716,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9709\/revisions\/9716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}