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60K points after $3K spend within first 3 months and an additional 60K after $15K total spend within first 9 months. This card is subject to Chase's 5/24 rule (click here for details). Earning rate: 3X Southwest ✦ 2X Rapid Rewards(R) hotel and car partners ✦ 2X rideshare ✦ 1X...

Southwest Business Card 120K Offers: Get a Companion Pass with One Card (for two years?)

In February, we posted about “enhancements” that were on the way for the Chase Marriott Bonvoy Bold card. Now, those changes are live and along with them comes a best-ever welcome offer of 60,000 points and a 50k free night certificate after $2K spend. Given the minimum spend required, this is a very good offer, much better than the previous one of 30k points with no free night certificate.

Marriott Bonvoy Bold Card Best Ever Offer: 60K points + 50K Free Night Cert

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Why I Canceled My Amex Gold Card After 3 Years

Update 6/26/24: This increased welcome offer on the Chase Ink Business Preferred card is now available in-branch. There is a new offer out for the Chase Ink Business Preferred that is good for 120,000 points after $8,000 in purchases in the first 3 months. The Deal. There is a new...

(Now In-Branch) 120K points with new Chase Ink Preferred bonus

Earn double elite night credits at Hilton properties when enrolled in the Hilton for Business program. Direct link to join Hilton for Business. Offer is limited to owners and employees enrolled in the Hilton for Business program. Owners and employees who have successfully been accepted into the Hilton for Business program will automatically be added to this promotion. To register your business for Hilton for Business, you must first connect your Honors account here and then successfully create your business profile here https://www.hilton.com/en/business/login/.

Hilton for Business double elite nights promo – useful even if you have Diamond status

Las Vegas, NV

Atlantic City, NJ

Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, NJ has long offered a status match for those with competing casino status all the way up to Ocean Prime status. We’ve covered that match pretty extensively in our post about How to get free cruises by gaming casino status matches. One of the other benefits of Ocean Prime status was a complimentary 2-night stay at Resorts World Las Vegas (I reviewed my complimentary stay at Conrad Las Vegas here). As of today (7/1/24), the partnership with Resorts World has ended, but some will be excited to see that Ocean is back to partnering with Wynn Las Vegas — so Ocean Prime members now get a complimentary 2-night stay at Wynn Las Vegas, which can be an incredibly valuable benefit.

Ocean Prime now offering 2 free nights at Wynn Las Vegas + $50 dining credit

Chase is incorrectly denying cardholders Sapphire Preferred welcome offer points, Hyatt buys a new brand and a trick for booking cheaper business class awards. All that and more in this week’s Saturday Selection, our weekly round-up of interesting tidbits from around the interwebs (links to each article are embedded in the titles).

A trick for cheaper business class awards, Chase incorrectly denying bonus points and a new Hyatt brand (Saturday Selection)

Doctor of Credit is reporting on some rumored changes to the Amex Gold card. Apparently, the CEO of American Express recently teased an announcement about Amex’s “refreshed U.S. Consumer Gold Card in the coming weeks” and now Doctor of Credit has also reported on what those changes might be. I want to emphasize that all of this is rumor at this point and there has been no official communication from Amex about specifics changing on the card. That said, if these turn out to be the actual changes, I think the Amex Gold card might come out better for me but I have to question the broader market for it.

Rumored changes coming to the Amex Gold card

Mark your calendars: if you have Bilt points, Monday will be a great day to consider transferring them. If you’d like to fly Air France or KLM in business class, we published a couple of helpful tricks this week, whether that’s how to find a calendar of availability or how to book via chat with Virgin Atlantic. Read about all that and a lot more in this Frequent Miler Week in Review.

Bigness from Bilt, tricks for booking Air France & KLM, updated hotel point values and more [Week in Review]

Amex has long had rules against getting a new welcome bonus for a card you’ve had before. Now, they’ve expanded those rules to include “families” of cards. In this episode we’ll help you navigate this confusing and tedious concept. Watch the full episode below, or...

Podcast: Navigating Amex’s Welcome Bonus Family Rules | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep261 | 6-28-24

Limited Time Offer: 5 x 60K Free Night Certificates ⓘ Affiliate. Five 60K free night certificates after $4K spend in 3 months. This card is subject to Chase's 5/24 rule (click here for details). Recent better offer: 175K after $3K in spend (expired 4/6/23) Earning rate: 10X IHG ✦...

Chase IHG Premier Card: Best-ever welcome offer of 5 x 60k free night certificates

Earn 5,000 bonus points for every three nights you stay at Hyatt properties in the Caribbean and Latin America. You must be a World of Hyatt member in good standing and register for the promotion between July 1 at 8:00 a.m. CT and September 30, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. CT to participate. To join World of Hyatt, visit hyatt.com/join, and to register for the promotion, visit hyatt.com/5kpoints.

Hyatt promo: Earn 5k bonus points for every 3 nights in Caribbean & Latin America

If those MastercardGiftCard.com deals aren’t appealing as you’d rather deal with Visa gift cards, TheGiftCardShop has a similar offer on VGCs instead. Get a 100% discount on $50+ Visa gift card purchase fees from TheGiftCardShop when using promo code 100GIFT. Direct link to offer. Key Terms. Expires July...

TheGiftCardShop giving 100% off Visa gift card purchase fees with promo code 100GIFT

It is probably a coincidence that both major British airlines destroyed sweet spots long enjoyed by North American members during the week in which we celebrate the anniversary of our independence. However, you didn’t need to depend on those programs to get great value, so this week we cover how you can break free from those now-dead sweet spots, how you can maximize the value you get from your Platinum card, why you shouldn’t take a siesta on Sonesta, and a lot more.

The British are coming (for your favorite award sweet spots), maximizing Platinum, dumping Gold, and more [Week in Review]

DC News Now

Southwest is offering major deals on flights for Amazon Prime members during Prime Day 2024.

Southwest announces first-ever Prime Day deal for travelers

Virgin points are often the cheapest option for booking Air France or KLM flights. For example, for a trip to Paris I’m planning, I found a great Air France business class award that was available. If I booked through Air France Flying Blue, I’d have to pay 303,000 miles plus $225 per passenger. No thanks! Meanwhile, Virgin Atlantic showed the same flight for 48,500 points plus $281 per passenger. Much better! Exciting right?

Solved: Problem booking Air France/KLM with Virgin points

Hawaii State

Save up to 40% on flights to/from Hawaii with Southwest when using promo code HAWAII40. Up to 40 percent promotion code savings valid for round trip Wanna Get Away and Wanna Get Away Plus fares booked on Southwest.com from July 9-11, 2024 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (the “Booking Period”) and flown between August 13-December 17, 2024 (the “Travel Period”).

Southwest Hawaii sale: Save up to 40% with promo code HAWAII40

In sadly unsurprising news, Virgin Atlantic has finally done the seeming inevitable and devalued one of its few remaining sweet spots. Thrifty Traveler has spotted that if you’d like to book Delta flights to Europe in business class, those will now require more miles in most cases. That’s not...

Virgin Atlantic devalues Delta, destroying deal

Receive $300 after opening a new Chase Total Checking account and setting up a direct deposit. Receive $200 after opening a new Chase Savings account, depositing a total of $15,000 or more in new money within 30 days, and then maintaining a $15,000 balance for 90 days. Receive $900 by...

$900 bonus with a new Chase checking and savings account

NewsBreak

New link for the Amex Business Platinum 250K welcome offer (targeted)

There’s another link available that allows you to check if you’re targeted for the 250K Membership Rewards offer on the Amex Business Platinum card that’s been...

New link for the Amex Business Platinum 250K welcome offer (targeted)

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