 Southwest has a potentially great deal going on where if you have your "travel funds" which are expiring September 7, 2022 due to the COVID-19 policy can be converted to Southwest Rapid Reward points at a rate of ~1.28 cent/point. The conversion is available till Dec 15th, 2020, but only for funds expiring on Sept 7, 2022. Though, if you change your previously issued funds expiring Sept 7, 2022 to another ticket, your new expiration date would be 12 months from the date of issue of new ticket and you would lose the ability to convert them to points. You can find more details of the conversion here.
Here are the potential reason's why would you want to do the conversion:
For limited time till 09/07/2020 due to COVID-19 policy of Southwest Airlines any purchased ticket which is cancelled would have travel funds issued with expiration date of Sept 7, 2022. So for now if you have discounted Southwest gift card available then you can potentially convert it to Southwest Rapid Reward Points by purchasing a ticket and then refunding as travel funds expiring on 09/07/22. So, if you have travel funds issued which are expiring on Sept 7, 2022 then now till Dec 15th, 2020 would be a good time to turn them into Rapid Reward points. 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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 Chase had added slew of limited time benefits to its premium Chase Sapphire Reserve card starting July 1st, 2020. One of the benefit was with Instacart where you would get reimbursed $50 towards the Annual $99 Instacart subscription or $9.99 per month subscription cost with maximum reimbursement cap at $50. The good news is that Chase is also providing ability to earn 5x Ultimate Rewards points when using Reserve card for spend of up to $3,000 till Sept 30th, 2020. Also the purchases made at Instacart count in groceries category, which allows you to cash out your Ultimate Rewards points for those purchase at a rate of 1.5 cent/point.
Instacart already has partnership with Costco and grocers such as Safeway & Kroger. So, most of your grocery would easily be covered if you shop at those stores (although at a slight mark up on price!). But the good news is that you get unlimited free delivery with the Chase Sapphire Reserve partnership with Instacart (for at-least 5 months on monthly plan!!) along with earning 5x Ultimate points per dollar spent (Up to $3,000 spend till 30th Sept 2020) and ability to pay for those purchases by redeeming your Ultimate Reward points at a rate of 1.5x. So, do register for this promotion if your favorite store is on Instacart platform and maximize your earning and spend on the Chase Sapphire Reserve card!. You can find more details on this deal here. 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.  Amex Shop Small is already underway but you can still enroll your Amex card in this promotion till 08/23/2020. Through this promotion you can earn $5 back for any purchase of $10+ at participating small business merchant for purchases made till 09/20/2020. $5 cashback at small business can be earned 10x times, so in total you can earn $50 cashback with this offer. You can search your nearby small business merchant here.
The best part is that this promotion is available as an Amex Offer which can be even added to Amex prepaid products such as Amex Serve / BlueBird. You may also be able to add this Amex Offer to other co-branded credit card's if you have them such as Wells Fargo Propel Amex Card. You might be surprise to find merchants which you might think are not small business but a qualifying purchase with them would earn you the $5 credit. For e.g. qualifying purchases at eGifter would earn you $5 credit where you can buy different egift cards. You can find additional surprise merchant's info on this DoctorOfCredit post. You can find complete offer terms here. 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.  Qatar Airways has a new limited time promo where you earn 3x Qmiles on Economy class and 5x Qmiles on Business class for new reservation's made directly on their website before Aug 10th, 2020 and using the promo code "EARNMORE" and travel before Dec 31st, 2020. You need to enroll for their Privilege Club Qmiles program before you make the booking though. You also earn 2,000 bonus miles for your first booking and 500 miles for each subsequent booking when booking with them directly and crediting miles to their Privilege Club program.
Also good news is that Qatar Airways has updated their mileage expiration policy recently and now your miles no longer expire after a set period regardless of activity but will be extended for additional 36 months for any earning or redemption activity on your account. Also as a courtesy Qatar Airways has extended all miles expiry date to March 2021 which were otherwise going to expire in June 2020!! In addition to above Qatar airways has made a very generous COVID-19 change policy which can be found here (although you are highly unlikely be able to claim the refund unless your flight's are cancelled). Under this policy you can:
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.  Etihad Guest is updating its mileage expiration policy from 07/31/2020 where-in rather than expiring your miles after 3 years from the date they are earned to a more consumer friendly policy where as long as you have earn/redeem miles activity on your account the miles will be extended for 18 months!
Also in the current climate of COVID-19, Etihad is providing customer friendly change/re-booking policies which can be accessed from this special page. In addition Etihad Guest is currently running a promotion where you earn 1 Tier mile for every point transferred from partners such as Amex Membership Reward Points, Citi ThankYou Points and Capital One Miles into Etihad Guest miles. Etihad has few great options for redemption such as American Airlines domestic redemption. You can find the details redemption chart for American Airlines here. It also partners with slew of other airlines on some of which you can get great redemption values. All the redemption options can be found here. Here are terms of new expiration policy from Etihad which will be applicable from 07/31/2020:
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.  Hyatt reward program is one of the best reward's program for inspirational stays. Their free night redemption chart is simple to understand and it provides reasonable options to redeem for suite stays compared to cash equivalent! Currently they are running promotion where you get 15% of your points back + free parking when you redeem your points for stay, dining and more with Hyatt. If you are World of Hyatt Credit Card holder then you get 25% of your points back! You need to register for this promotion on or before Sep 1st, 2020 and your stay needs to be completed by Oct 8th, 2020. Hyatt has great redemption options both for standard redemption as well as for all-inclusive resort redemption!  Redemption Rates at Hyatt Properties!  Redemption Rates at Hyatt All-Inclusive Resorts! As of now due to COVID-19 the entire travel industry is upended. Hotel's are coming up with various promotions to keep their ball rolling and attract the customers in the times of tough travel and lodging. Hyatt makes it real easy to explore all their portfolio properties using map option.
You should register for this promotion even if you do not have any travel plans before Oct 8th, 2020. You never know if you might want to go for a near by getaway which has Hyatt property and you would get great value for your points redemption!! 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.  If you have ever thought of getting discount on your British Airways Flight ticket you would have come across AARP discount on British Airways flight purchase. As per AARP website anyone age 50+ can become a member and take benefits of variety of offers present. But in reality the age criteria is not enforced and anyone can become a member for a standard annual rate of $16 or discounted rate of $12 for the first year when you select "1 Year Automatic Renewal". Currently you can stack multiple offers to get great deal on membership. You can score 1,000 American Airlines Miles + 1,200 Swagbucks + Free gift for just $12. To top it you can meet some credit card spend using AARP Rewards or score some gift cards if you are in gift cards. Apart from above AARP have array of benefits available to member's including great travel benefits shown below.  Travel benefits of AARP membership!! So here is how the stacking would work:
 Earn 1,200 SB which can be redeemed for $12 of Amazon gift card! So, sign up for AARP rewards for free as well as earn a free gift and some AA miles in the process.
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.  Radisson Hotels has launched a new promotion where you will earn 5k bonus points per stay till Dec 31st 2020. You need to register for the promotion before any of the stay's occurs to earn the bonus points and it can be done here. The best part of the promotion is the stay could be just "One night" and it is available for world wide stays. Both "award points" stays and "points + cash" stays will count for the purpose of 5k bonus points.  5k bonus points each stay! Since the promotion lasts till December 31st 2020, it might be useful for stays far off in Thanksgiving or Christmas time given most folks would put off travel in current COVID-19 situation. Radisson award night stay start at just 9k points so it would be of best use for those cheap 1-night stays where you get rebate of 5k points back . Do remember that consecutive nights at hotel count as single stay and would earn just 5k points regardless of the number of nights in that stay. You can earn maximum of 150k points during this promotion.
So, register for this promotion today even if you do not have any current plans of stay as the promotion lasts till December 31st 2020. Below are the important terms of the promotion: *By registering for and participating in the 2020 5K For Every Stay promotion (“Promotion”), you acknowledge, and you agree to these Terms and Conditions. To be eligible for the Promotion, you must: (i) Be a Radisson Rewards member (“Member”); (ii) Register online for the Promotion prior to checkout of the Eligible Stay (to become an “Eligible Member”) and (iii) Complete Eligible Stays between July 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020 (“Promotion Period”). The Promotion is available at all Radisson Collection, Radisson Blu, Radisson, Radisson RED, Park Plaza, Park Inn by Radisson, and Country Inn & Suites by Radisson hotels worldwide (collectively, “Participating Properties”). Eligible Stays reserved prior to the Promotion Period are eligible for this Promotion, but must be consumed during the Promotion Period to be eligible and must have been booked via an eligible booking source with an eligible rate. Eligible Members will earn Bonus Points for each Eligible Stay completed at Participating Properties during the Promotion Period, not to exceed 150,000 total Bonus Points (“Promotion Bonus”). Bonus Points will be credited to the Member’s account throughout the Promotion Period, when the standard points are credited, usually within 5-10 business days after the Eligible Stay has been consumed. In addition to the Promotion Bonus earned for Eligible Stays consumed during the Promotion Period, an Eligible Member will earn the standard 20 points issued per U.S. Dollar spent and their Tier Bonus (Silver, additional 2 points per U.S. Dollar spent; Gold, additional 5 points per U.S. Dollar spent; Platinum, additional 15 points per U.S. Dollar spent). 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.  As with most airlines and hotels facing cash crunch one of the easy way to raise cash is by selling miles/points at a discounted price. On that note Alaska Airlines is currently offering certain member's ability to purchase miles with additional "up to 60% bonus" miles based on the amount of points purchased.
 Offer to purchase miles with 60% bonus for certain members! Alaska Airlines partners with many airlines including best in class such as Emirates, Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific. So if you have any planned trip for which you can find award space then it may be a good deal to top up or buy Alaska Airlines miles for this trip. To see what is your targeted bonus you need to use your Mileage Plan details and check here.
So, if you purchase 40,000 miles you will receive bonus miles of 24,000; so for a total cost of $1,100 you will receive 64,000 miles. For 62,500 miles you can travel one way to/from South Asia to Contiguous U.S. /Alaska in Cathay Pacific Business class! You can look up the award chart for different airlines here by selecting your region of travel. Below are the published terms for the bonus miles promo:
Purchase miles only if you have trip planned in near/distant future as speculative buying may not be the best bet at this time. 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.  Due to COVID-19 most airlines are in survival mode and coming up with various promotions to keep them afloat or to get the much needed cash infusion. Etihad Airways is running a promotion which started on 10th of June and valid till 24th of June where you would get 50% more in value when you purchase a travel voucher which could be used for booking any flights starting 1st August 2020.
You can purchase the travel voucher in any amount from $250 to $65,000 and it would be valid for 2 years from the date of purchase. One of the best thing is that you can use the voucher for booking flights for any friend or family and till the end of schedule from the date of booking which could be the last date of expiration of the voucher. You can also book your tickets online and see the voucher value while booking so you do not necessarily need to call. You will need Etihad Guest Account to have travel voucher deposited to the linked travel bank account. You would also earn miles and elite points on the actual ticket purchase. Do keep in mind that although highly unlikely Etihad can also go out of business and you would wind up holding "zilch" or $0 in value for the voucher. Also you cannot use the travel voucher for paying taxes and fees for the award ticket. Below are the terms and conditions of the voucher:
You will need to call the Etihad call center here to make the purchase and in the process they will create the travel bank account for you loaded with the travel voucher purchased. More information on travel bank can be found here. Etihad has vast network of flights and has highly rated Business Class and ranked in top 10 of the world's best business class seats in 2019. So, there could be quite number of opportunities where you can travel with Etihad using the voucher. 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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