{"id":9919,"date":"2024-07-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=9919"},"modified":"2024-07-03T08:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:54:29","slug":"wednesday-news-dump-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/03\/wednesday-news-dump-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday News Dump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The US Bank Triple Cash Rewards card has a $750 sign-up bonus after $6,000 spend in 180 days<\/a>. The card has no-annual fee, or a negative annual fee if you’re a gamer<\/a>. A few US Bank notes:

    – Hard pulls with US Bank will be combined in the same day
    – Different businesses can get the same card on the same day
    – The     Leverage card<\/a> pairs well with this one, and also has a $750 bonus

    For more about US Bank gaming,     see this article<\/a>.
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  2. The American Express Schwab 1.1 cents per Membership Rewards point cash-out will be limited to the first million points per year<\/a> starting October 1. Afterward, points will be cashed out at 0.8 cents each.

    You’ll still, as of this writing, have uncapped cash-out with the Morgan Stanley Platinum card at 1.0 cents, and American Express’s Business Checking cash-out is also at 1.0 cents each. Of course, brokers gonna broke and bypass the whole system. Mini #rant brewing for the near future. (Thanks to DDG and jnjustice)
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  3. Do this now (if you hold a United credit card)<\/strong>: Check for a targeted spend bonus<\/a> for spend through July 30. Offers include TravelBank credit, PQPs, and miles.
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  4. Do this now (if you hold United or Marriott status)<\/strong>: Register for Marriott and United’s reciprocal earning promotion for stays or premium cabin flights:

    –     Marriott registration link<\/a> (For Ambassador, Titanium, or Unobtainium status)
    –     United registration link<\/a> (For Gold, Platinum, 1K, Global Services, or Moon Walkers)

    If you haven’t linked your United status to Marriott,     you can link here<\/a>, and vice-versa here<\/a>. (Thanks to FM<\/a>)
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  5. The AirFrance \/ KLM FlyingBlue program has promo awards from the US to Europe<\/a> in the following cities through the end of July: Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, and Raleigh Durham. There’s wide economy availability for the promotion, and spotty 50,000 point business class availability too.
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  6. The Citi Shop Your Way Rewards Mastercard<\/a>, the Larry Bird<\/a> of credit cards, sent a few targeted offers:

    – 10% statement credit on up to $1,000 in travel and entertainment, monthly in 2024
    – $150 statement credit with $1,000-$1,999 in spend or $250 with $2,000+ at gas, grocery, and restaurants, monthly in 2024

    These offers stack together and with other ongoing offers from the card. If you maximized just these two, you’ve got [launches massively parallel calculation on a supercomputer]<\/em> $2,100 in statement credits on a no-annual fee card. If your favorite credit card blogger never talks bout this card, ask yourself “why not?” (Thanks to Tyler, Jay, and Fish)
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  7. Virgin Atlantic devalued its transatlantic business class Delta partner awards<\/a> in two ways, first with approximately $1,000 in new surcharges and second, an increase of up to 55% mileage redemption cost with the introduction of a new variable award chart.
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  8. The Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles Visa card has been unveiled in the US<\/a>:

    – 40,000 bonus miles after $3,000 spend in 90 days
    – 2x on dining, groceries, entertainment, and hotels
    – $99 annual fee, not waived the first year.

    I think the card is only interesting because it is issued by First Electronic Bank. When a bank you’ve never heard of issues a card, it’s usually a green light for shenanigans because (1) their systems are different than big bank systems, (2) smaller banks usually have interesting payment methods, and (3), if you’re shutdown by First Electronic Bank, literally who cares?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    Warning sign posted at First Electric Bank’s headquarters isn’t the least bit creepy, why would you say that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Warning sign posted at First Electric Bank’s headquarters isn’t the least bit creepy, why would you say that?<\/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":[60,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-credit-cards","category-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919","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=9919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9928,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919\/revisions\/9928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}