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The American Express Business Platinum Card currently refunds 50% of your Membership Rewards points when you use their Pay with Points feature. This benefit gives you an effective value of 2 cents per MR point. Starting June 1, 2017, this refund will be reduced to 35%, reducing the effective value of MR points to 1.538 … Read more
PayPal Digital Gifts via Ebay is selling the following gift cards for $92, but with a special promotion of $5 when you spend $50+. Discount will be reflected in cart. $100 Southwest Airlines Gift Card for $87 $100 American Airlines Gift Card for $87 Limit for each of these is 5 per person. To get … Read more
Direct Link 80,000 points after $1,000 spend in 3 months. Annual fee of $49 is waived the first year. “I have and keep this card because of the free anniversary night every year you pay the annual fee.” Update: Via Doctor of Credit, after you are approved, you may be able to match to this … Read more
Where are the Canary Islands? I mean, they’re technically part of Spain, but they’re off the coast of Morocco. So… what do you think? The point here is that none of the airlines agree with each other either. American Airlines, for example, considers them to be part of Europe, while United Airlines thinks they are in … Read more
Yesterday, Singapore Airlines announced a series of award redemption changes for Singapore Airlines and SilkAir operated flights, effective March 23, 2017: There will be a new award chart (link). The 15% award mileage discount is being eliminated. Fuel surcharges will no longer be assessed. Note that no changes are being made to partner (i.e. Star Alliance) … Read more
Note: Read the primer on Earning Miles if you have not already. Credit Cards The best way to earn Avios is with the Chase British Airways Visa Signature card. There will occasionally be an offer to earn an additional 50,000 Avios (so 100,000 Avios total) for spending a total of $20,000 in the first year. If you … Read more
I’ve been on vacation for the past few weeks, so this post is a little late; however, the optimal time to do all of this will be in early 2017, so no harm done. A few weeks back, Marriott and Starwood began allowing rewards members to link their accounts together and to transfer points between the two programs at a … Read more
Let’s assume you’re not flying anywhere soon or planning any big redemptions, but you need to keep your miles from expiring. First, let’s review the expiration policies for the airlines covered on this website: Airline Expiration Policy American Airlines 18 months of no earning or redeeming miles British Airways 36 months of no earning or redeeming miles … Read more
Back in August, I posted about some negative changes that United was making to stopovers on award flights, effective October 6th of this year. That date has come and gone, and in short, stopovers are no longer allowed unless they occur in the same region as your destination. This has certainly been bad news, but otherwise things have mostly been business … Read more
Bonus has been increased to 35,000 Starpoints after $7,000 spend in 3 months. This is about as good as this bonus ever gets. I’ve provided a referral link above (you get the same bonus for a referral link vs. a direct link). Offer ends March 28, 2018