 Citi ThankYou points are useful for transfer to various airlines partners with most notable use for travel to/from Hawaii using Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles program (7.5k points each way) if you have their Citi Premier Card or Prestige Card. Due to COVID-19 though most travel is down due to travel restrictions in place and so getting an alternate way of redeeming points is a great plus. With Citi Premium card Ideally you could redeem your Citi ThankYou points for 1:1 ratio for gift card's. But on 11/30/2020 starting at 12 a.m. EST for 24 hours you can redeem your Citi ThankYou points for certain gift cards at 20% discount and more importantly it includes the "Apple gift card". Since Apple recently changed their gift card so that it can be used for both Itunes as well as Apple products it could represent screeching deal to purchase those at 20% discount. In addition if you hold Citi Reward+ Card then you would get 10% ThankYou points back as rebate. So if you are redeeming for $100 Apple gift card with 20% discount you would pay 8,000 Citi ThankYou points which will further reduce to just 7,200 points if you hold Citi Reward+ card thus essentially making it 28% discount on Apple gift card (1000 points = $10).  Redeem Citi ThankYou points for 20% discount on Apple gift card! So, if you have healthy stack of Citi ThankYou points and no immediate idea of where to use it this might be a great deal to redeem those points.
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 With the onset of the week of Thanksgiving it amazes me how COVID-19 has affected us and people around us in this year of 2020. Yet, here we are resilient and giving our fight to this pandemic.
Although the commercial forces have made this week a week of shopping for ourselves and family, it should not pass away without we giving our thanks to all the lovely family and friends, the front line workers and all the people who strive for good and have made a difference to our lives!! The number of journey's we take to travel and connect with people, understand without prejudice and all the expression of gratitude we have for what life brings to us is what makes us. This all is possible due to the numerous airlines, hotel's, B&B's, Public transport, consulate's around the world where people work to connect us and make our journey more meaningful. Although these are challenging times for hospitality industry but the myriad changes made by the industry participants to make our travel more flexible and rewarding needs a big thanks! May we seek out the best of nature and the world has to offer and be ready for our next travel soon. Thank You for being a part of my journey!! Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website.  In this digital age where everything is online most of the website including that of Airlines and Hotel program requires you to have a password. While most banking related platform's strive for multi pronged security the same cannot be said for most mileage/points program. So, for those of us who collect these virtual currencies it is more imperative to protect the account and thus it begs a question: Is your Airline / Hotel program account login protected? One of the first things you can do is to have "strong password" to avoid your account being hacked! To begin with below are couple of things you should check:
The reason both your email and password might be highly likely being compromised would be because of past "data breach" or "hacks" which are now more norm than exception's. So, where do you start? Here is one popular website "Have I been pwnd!" which not only gives information if your email was compromised in past data breaches but also allows you to check your password to see if it has already been known or compromised.  Check the website for email and "Passwords"! As you can see from above, you can just enter your email address and it will let you know if your email has been already compromised in past data breach or hack. It also has an option on the top "Passwords" which allows you to search your password to see if it is already a known password and thus something you should immediately change if its present in any of your accounts. Usually in data breach it's possible that your password is associated with your email and if your email show's up as compromised you account's which use those combination are already at risk.
One other thing you should do is to enable Multi-factor authentication of which Two-factor authentication is a subset. Though make sure you do not use your phone number as a Two-factor authentication method. As of recent past it has been possible for hackers to easily transfer your phone number to another device and thus easily authenticate the request going to your phone number. A more secure approach is to have a authenticator app such is Google Authenticator. So, please check your email and password's and use additional authentication methods to protect your airlines miles and hotel points account from wrong-doers!! Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website.  Alaska Airlines is running their amazing offer of converting your wallet funds to miles at 1 cent/mile again and it last's till November 13th, 11:59 PM (PST). They ran this offer earlier in Oct, 2020 and similar to last time this offer is only valid for folks who have funds in their wallet prior to the announcement of the offer. You can access the offer here and will see the offer if there are any wallet funds in your Alaska Airlines account. So, if you have funds in your wallet for any of your earlier cancelled flights this might be a great offer as it not only gives longer time to use your money/miles but also gives you are great value for redeeming the miles on some of the nice business class partner redemption's. Alaska Airlines miles do not expire for at-least 24 months from the account activity and this conversion is currently counted as account activity!! Since they are running this offer the 2nd time it is also highly likely that they might run it again in the future. So, if you do not mind you can load up your wallet with Alaska gift cards or cancelled ticket amount in the hope of future offer to convert your wallet balance to Alaska Airlines miles at 1 cent/mile. Note: Alaska Airlines current peace of mind policy for changes/cancellation allows free wallet deposit for tickets booked till 12/31/2020!!  Alaska Airlines wallet credit to miles conversion offer!! Here are the terms of the original offer:
Terms and ConditionsOffer valid through October 12, 2020 11:59 pm (PT): Qualifying members who receive this offer directly from Alaska Airlines via email can exchange Alaska wallet funds in increments of 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100% of their current wallet balance for Mileage Plan bonus miles at an exchange rate of 100 miles per $1. Bonus miles are redeemable for award travel, but do not count toward elite status qualification. All wallet exchanges for miles are final, and wallet credit once redeemed is not refundable. If wallet balance at the time of debit is below what is needed to cover the exchange, the exchange will be canceled. Offer cannot be combined with any other offer. All Mileage Plan terms and conditions apply. Mileage Plan miles do not expire, but if a Mileage Plan account is inactive for 2 years, Alaska Airlines may close the account; miles in a closed account can be reinstated for a fee for up to 1 year after closure. Exchanging wallet credit for Mileage Plan miles pursuant to this offer does qualify as account activity, so your Mileage Plan account will remain active for at least 2 years after the effective date of the exchange. This offer is not intended to apply to new purchases of gift certificates occurring during the offer period. If you acquire a gift certificate during the offer period, or receive a gift certificate acquired during the offer period, and exchange that gift certificate for Miles in violation of this condition of the offer, we will reverse the transaction, remove the Miles from your account, and re-issue the amount exchanged as wallet credit. Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website.  JetBlue recently launched an awesome 100k JetBlue points credit card offer. The offer earns 50,000 points after spending $1,000 on purchases and paying $99 annual fee within the first 90 days after the approval and earns additional 50,000 points after spending total of $6,000 on purchases within the first 12 months. The card also comes with noteworthy perks some of which are listed below:
 JetBlue 100k points offer! One of the nice things about JetBlue points is they do not expire and since JetBlue program is revenue based you get ~1.4 cent/point value when redeeming for Blue Fare (The downside is that JetBlue does not allow to redeem points for Blue Basic fare which might ideally give even more value!!). JetBlue serves 90+ destinations with heavy presence on East coast and small presence on the West coast. You can find all the destinations in this route map.
So, if you live in one of the cities which JetBlue serves then the 100k points offer combined with other perks of the card is an amazing offer which you should definitely go for!! Do note that the JetBlue credit card is issued by Barclay's Bank which is not an easy bank to get an approval from if you have few recent inquiries. Disclaimer: Some of the links used in the post may be referral links and earn referral to this site. We appreciate you supporting the website. |
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