Introduction Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen credit card companies and loyalty programs introduce many consumer-friendly changes. There have been so many that it’s hard to keep up with everything! Last week, we published a summary of the consumer-friendly…
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Read MoreIntroduction Earlier this week, Marriott announced a sale on its gift cards, where GCs can be purchased in designated denominations at 20% off, plus a points sale starting next week, where Bonvoy points can be purchased with a 60% bonus,…
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Read MoreIntroduction & Background For many months, we’ve wanted to conduct a Citi ThankYou Points (TYPs) experiment to determine whether it would be possible for a single person to get the 10,000-TYP rebate from the Citi Rewards+ card twice per year.…
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Read MoreIntroduction This morning, we’re seeing some new airline shopping portal bonuses from Alaska, American and United. The structure of the bonuses is interesting and allows for some very nice mileage returns on purchases at or near the $50/$75 minimum purchase…
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Read MoreIntroduction The Bravo “Tip or Pay” app has been a very good friend to Middle Age Miles over the past couple of years. It’s a P2P payment app that allows an app user to pay another user without the exchange…
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Read MoreIntroduction While we’ve been on our housemoving-induced hiatus for the past few weeks and continuing even through today, we’ve seen credit card companies and loyalty programs introduce many consumer-friendly changes. There have been so many that it’s hard to keep…
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Read MoreHappy Star Wars Day from Middle Age Miles – May the Fourth be with you! Following up on Friday’s big announcements from Amex and Chase, especially with respect to earning bonus points for grocery store spend, we’re already seeing another…
The post Middle Age Miles News & Notes 5/4/2020 – MCGC deal; Rakuten 15%/15x (and 10%/10x for Dell); Amex Biz Plat credit; UPromise appeared first on Middle Age Miles.
Read MoreIntroduction Over the past couple of days, we’ve seen Amex and Chase come out with numerous bonus offers for spend at supermarkets. We wanted to line up all the bonuses and compare their points-earning rates, so we can analyze how…
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Read MoreIt’s a big day here at Middle Age Miles, as we come back online after about 5 weeks off, and it’s the first day that our home state of Texas is beginning to cautiously re-open after our coronavirus lockdown. We’re…
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Read MoreIntroduction First, I apologize for the continued large gaps between posts. Sometimes real life takes precedence over the blog, and I’ve been buried in activities related to selling our current house and moving into our new townhouse. Today, though, there’s…
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Read MoreExecutive Summary In our opinion, the keep-or-cancel decision on the Amex Marriott Bonvoy Business card comes down to a single question (barring a good retention offer): Do you think it’s worth the $125 annual fee to get a 35,000-point Marriott…
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Read MoreWe’ve been very quiet at Middle Age Miles over the past few days, as the evil coronavirus continues to spread and the world does its best to cope. Frankly, it’s been hard to find joy in writing articles for Middle…
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Read MoreExecutive Summary Here’s a heads-up that tomorrow morning (Thursday, March 12), Southwest will open its schedule for ticket purchases for flights through October 30, 2020. Why are we so excited about this particular schedule opening? Because it extends the schedule…
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Read MoreIntroduction If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you already know that AA terminated my AAdvantage account recently, as part of their recent waves of account shutdowns. I’ve been reporting at each stage of my lockdown and eventual termination,…
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Read MoreIt’s been a while since we’ve seen a Visa Gift Card (VGC) or Mastercard Gift Card (MCGC) sale at Office Depot/Office Max. To our knowledge, this is the first sale of 2020. This week’s deal is the one we’ve grown…
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Read MoreSometimes the small wins bring us a lot of joy. Last week, Amex released a new Amex Offer for QuikTrip (QT) convenience stores. The basic terms are that if you spend at least $10 in-store at a QT store on…
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Read MoreIntroduction At Middle Age Miles, we love status matches, and we especially love program partnerships that allow status to be re-matched again and again. The two major Las Vegas resort chains (Caesars and MGM) each have ongoing partnerships with major…
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Read MoreSummary of the Promotion Marriott Bonvoy has announced its Spring 2020 chainwide promotion, called “Unlimited Bonus Points.” Key details are as follows: Earn 2,000 Marriott Bonvoy bonus points for each stay during the promotional period, starting with your second stay…
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Read MoreOn this Super Tuesday election day here in Texas and in other states, let’s take a much-needed break from AA shutdowns and cover several other topics of interest in the travel, credit card and points-and-miles world: 1 – Last Day…
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Read MoreIntroduction As you probably know if you’ve clicked into this article, AA terminated my AAdvantage account last Friday. We recounted the details here and provided some initial thoughts on how we might proceed in order to get my account reinstated…
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