 Delta is offering certain Delta Skymiles members opportunity to earn up to 25k Delta Skymiles by doing transaction's with various non-airline partners (targeted). You earn 1,000 Skymiles for each unique partner activity with which you have not done any Delta Skymiles earning transaction from Jan 1st, 2017 to Oct 17th, 2017. There are few non-airline partner exclusions such as Delta Vacations, Points.com, Gilt and Biscoff. An easy 1,000 miles could be earn by transferring 1,000 miles from American Express Membership Rewards (MR) Points, SPG Hotels Rewards program or doing a $1 shopping transaction from Skymiles shopping portal. There is a limit of 1 bonus per transacting partner. You can check the partner conversion rates for non-airline partners here. Below is the snap shot of promotion page:  Up to 25k Delta Skymiles by transacting with Delta non-airline partners You can check if you are eligible for this offer by going to the link here. Below are terms for this promotion:
Terms and Conditions Member eligibility: This is a private offer is exclusively for selected SkyMiles members who receive the promotional email. Offer is not transferable to other members. Offer Registration: Offer registration is required. To register, eligible members need to visit the dedicated landing page and register with their SkyMiles number. Offer: Registered SkyMiles members will earn a bonus of 1,000 miles for every new participating partner they earn miles with between October 16, 2017 and December 31, 2017 up to a maximum of 25,000 bonus miles per member. The term "New" refers to a partner the member has not earned miles with during the period January 1, 2017 to October 17, 2017. Participating Partners: The following non-airline partners are participating in this offer: SkyMiles Credit Card Partners, Hotels & Airbnb, Car Partners, SkyMiles Cruises, Retail and Specialty, Financial Partners, SkyMiles Shopping and SkyMiles Dining. For a list of partners, please click here. Airline partners, Delta Vacations, Gilt, Points.com and Biscoff are expressly excluded from this offer. Airbnb Terms: Visit deltaairbnb.com for full terms and conditions of this offer. Lyft Terms: Visit delta.com/lyft for full terms and conditions of this offer. Eligibility of Transactions: Only accrual partner transactions with an activity date between October 16, 2017 and December 31, 2017 will be considered for this bonus. Activity date is defined as the date of the transaction as reported by the partner regardless of the date the transaction is posted in the member’s account. Some partners offer multiple ways to earn miles under different products, brands, conversion of currency to miles, etc. These will still be considered as a single partner. Some examples of these cases are: Hotels booked via delta.com Hotels, hotel brands under the same Hotel portfolio, stay activity and a points conversion to miles from the same partner and others. Please allow up to 60 days after the qualifying transaction for bonus miles to be added in your account. Delta may change the SkyMiles program rules, change or terminate program partners, regulations, benefits, conditions of participation or mileage levels, in whole or in part, at any time with or without notice, even though changes may affect the value of mileage already accumulated. This offer may be terminated by Delta at any time, with our without notice. All SkyMiles program rules apply to SkyMiles program membership, miles, offers, mile accrual, mile redemption, and travel benefits. Offers void where prohibited by law. Other restrictions may apply. To review the rules, please visit delta.com/memberguide. Delta, SkyMiles, and the Delta logo are registered service marks of Delta Air Lines, Inc. Promotional Reference Code: To enquire about this offer, please refer to code 179004 when contacting any Delta customer service representative. So go ahead and check if you are eligible to register for this promotion and earn some easy Delta Skymiles with this promotion!!. 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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 United Airlines has sent out offers to their MileagePlus members where you can earn bonus miles apart from the regular miles (5 miles/$ for base members) you earn on flying united flights and crediting to United Airlines. The offers vary from member to member but it requires you to register before Nov 1st, 2017 and fly by Nov 15th, 2017. Only tickets purchased after registering for the offer count for the bonus miles offer. Here is the link to check your offer. Below are the few variants of offer available:
 United MileagePlus sample offer snapshot to earn total of 8,000 miles Below are the complete terms as per United Promotion webpage:
For this promotion, rewards will be awarded for each spending threshold that has been met, subject to the terms and conditions. Threshold bonuses may be earned only once. Partial bonuses will not be awarded for members who don't reach a certain threshold. All calculations made in connection with this offer will be made by MileagePlus in its discretion and considered final.
So, check your offer and register for this promotion if you are planning to buy and fly United Airlines before Nov 15th, 2017. 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. Earn upto 20k Amex Membership reward points with Amex Platinum Authorized user cards [YMMV]9/24/2017 Lately American Express has been promoting their credit cards by giving away bonuses for authorized users on personal credit cards. There have been bonuses on some good cards such as 2.5k SPG points for authorized users on Starwood Preferred Guest, and 2.5k Membership Reward points for authorized users on Everyday Preferred card. One of the interesting offer is for authorized user on Amex Platinum Card where you earn 5k Membership Reward points for each authorized user upto 20k Membership reward points in total. This offer may not be available to all holders of Amex Platinum Card but you can check by clicking this link and login in to your Amex Platinum online account.  Earn 5k Membership reward points per authorized user upto 20k points for 4 users The offer gives 20k Membership reward points in total for upto 4 authorized users when you spend $500 on each authorized user card but you need to add all of them at the same time. Also you can choose to add American Express Gold card for no extra cost if you are doing this just for membership reward points without the real benefits of the card.
Lot of the folks who have this offer would see it expiring on 10/20/2017 but quite a few might have different date of expiration so do check for expiration date before you apply for the offer. One other thing is you do NOT require to provide SSN for authorized users up-front. Even when the card arrives you can get away with activating the card by calling in and providing alternate evidence such as Passport instead of SSN number. Also being an authorized user does not exclude the authorized users from getting their own primary card in the future along with the sign on bonus if they never had this card before as a primary applicant. So see if you have this offer and if yes earning 20k Bonus Membership reward points with a total spend of just $2000 without a credit pull is a great deal. 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.  There is an Alaska Airlines offer to earn 1k to 3k Alaska Mileage Plan miles which is going to expire in less than 2 weeks. Alaska Airlines miles are valuable as you can redeem that at array of airline partners and they have pretty good award redemption chart for most of their partners. With the offer "Take the Dash for Miles Challenge" you can earn 1k miles for transaction with each partner. The details of the terms can be found here and you need to register for the offer on the same page.
While doing transaction with all 3 partners should be easy you could still do offer with only one of the partner and pocket 1k miles. Below are the three partners where you can earn 1k miles: Mileage Plan Dining: If you are new member you also earn bonus miles for your first dine but it requires a minimum purchase amount. Alternatively you can spend as low as $1 on any of the participating dining partner and earn 1k miles under Dash Challenge. The Opinion Terminal: You earn 400 miles as well after you register and do the first survey. This could be YMMV as you need to complete the survey successfully to earn 1k bonus mile under Dash Challenge. Mileage Plan Shopping: You can easily earn 1k miles in Dash challenge by making a purchase of ~$1 at JCPenney or Home Depot. For Home Depot you can do in-store pick up and just pocket 1k Alaska Mileage Plan miles. So, go ahead and get some quick miles before this offer expires. 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.  Uber has recently launched public program of Visa local offers in select markets where you earn the Uber Credits (Can be used for Uber or Ubereats). You need to have Visa card added to your Uber account and enroll for the program. Once you enroll you will see offers to earn Uber credits at nearby places. The offers are available at various local participating places for any given month and depends on location where you have these participating partners rather than your home address.  Visa local page showing few partners where you can earn Uber Credits All you have to do is purchase using the Visa card (use credit card option at checkout) registered on your Uber account at participating partners. While most of these places are restaurants there are quite a few interesting places such as Staples, Walgreens, Whole Foods Market etc.  Interesting participating merchants for Visa local offer of Uber The Uber credit is limited to dollar amount per purchase which varies from $20 to $100 based on the partner but you can make as many purchases in a day with each earning up-to the limit credit. Also note the terms mention that Gift Card purchases are excluded but in reality it is an YMMV and from my experience purchases having combination of Gift cards and regular items and which earn Uber credit within the maximum credit limit works fine.  Uber Credit Terms for Staples purchase. Combine it with 5x Ultimate Rewards with your Chase Ink cards One example of interest is Staples. As you can see from above you can earn Uber credits at Staples store and since you can earn 5x Ultimate Rewards points on all your purchases made with Chase Ink/ Ink plus card at office stores this would give you Uber credits for the purchases you might already be making. As mentioned earlier you can keep the purchases at amount lower that the maximum purchase amount ($200 for Staples as per the offer) on which you earn Uber credits which would hopefully trigger the credits.
So get the Uber credits using the Visa local offer while it lasts. 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 per wikipedia JetBlue is the 6th largest airline in the United States. Although a low cost carrier it has wider seat pitch and lot of free entertainment on-board which differentiates it from other big carriers.
One more interesting aspect of JetBlue is the best fare guarantee which is different than the big U.S. carriers. While not as good as Alaska Airlines price guarantee it still provides some protection and benefits. So what exactly is JetBlue best fare guarantee? JetBlue like other airlines provides full refund if you cancel within 24 hours of purchase. But apart from that as per the Best fare guarantee description here JetBlue provides $100 in JetBlue credit to be used for next flight purchase and to be used within 1 year from the original ticket purchase date if you find lower fare any where else for the same ticket which was purchased on jetblue.com on the same day of purchase (read complete terms here). The caveat here is that you need to call in the customer support to exercise this guarantee which might be a bummer for some folks. The other less often talk about policy is the JetBlue "Honoring the lower fare policy". The wording of this policy says this is for "travel agents" which gives certain wiggle room for the JetBlue agents to not honor it for tickets booked by customers directly but otherwise it provides a 14 day guarantee. Ideally you could always claim to be a travel agent booking the ticket for yourself:-). As per the policy if Jetblue fare drops below the original purchase price within 14 days or less of original purchase date you would get the difference in fare as a JetBlue credit for future use. There is no fee assessed for honoring the lower fare within 14 days of purchase which other wise would cost you $75. Again you need to call JetBlue to exercise this guarantee but should be worth your time if there a savings to be had. So the next time you see the price drop for your JetBlue flight and it's been 14 days or less since you purchased your JetBlue itinerary do not forget to contact JetBlue and get your credit for future travel purchases on JetBlue. 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.  Most of the USA Carriers sells fare which are non-refundable. If you cancel your reservation within 24 hours of booking you can get full refund to your original payment method without any fees. There are however two carriers which are more flexible on change / refund policy and these are Southwest Airlines and Alaska Airlines.
For Southwest if you cancel the flight up-to 10 minutes before departure you get the refund in the form of Southwest credit to be used by the same passenger within one year of the date of purchase of the ticket. For Alaska if you have booked the flight which is more than 60 days away from the flight date then you get the refund as a credit in your "My Wallet". The good part is this credit could be use for any passenger and it does not expire. So what happens if the price falls for the flight booked by on Alaska Airlines website and the flights are within 60 days of purchase date? The good news is that Alaska Airlines provides Price Guarantee where if the price of the flights falls it would either provide a refund or credit in My Wallet based on refundable or a non-refundable fare. Apart from Southwest Airlines generous change policy Alaska Airlines is the only one which does not charge any fees and provides the credit if the price of the flight booked by you falls below the original ticketed price. There are requirements such as you should not be changing the flight date, times, or cabin while using the price guarantee so as to say it has to be for the same flight you had originally booked. You can find the full terms here but more importantly the entire process can be done online and the credit gets deposited in My Wallet and expires in 1 year from the original date of reservation but you use it for any passengers. Also you can claim this credit for Virgin America flights booked on Alaska Airlines website . So the next time you see the fare of your booked flights with Alaska Airlines fall below your purchase price and if the reservation is within 60 days of travel, go ahead and claim the credit for future use 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.  CITY NATIONAL BANK (CNB) has a REWARDS PLUS PROGRAM which provides bonus points for online and in-store purchases. To see the details of the REWARDS PLUS program you need to login into their rewards website here. CNB rewards points can be redeemed at best value of 0.9 cents/points for merchant gift cards or at 1.14 cents/points for Flight redemption.  CNB REWARDS PLUS BONUS POINTS EARNING While most of the offers are lukewarm there are few limited time offers which could be useful for bonus points earning. For e.g. take a peek at below merchants with limited time offers.  Limited time bonus offers for various merchants which requires activation As you can see there is Office Depot and Bloomingdales among the merchants. So with the above offer you can earn 3x points in total at Office Depot store. The bad news is that each of these offers has maximum earning limits. For e.g. the fine print for Office Depot offers requires a minimum purchase of $25 and has maximum bonus points earning capped at 1500 points whereas Bloomingdales offer requires minimum purchase of $50 and has similar maximum bonus points earning capped at 1500 points. Also I see an offer for CVS (in-store as well as online) where I can earn 10 points per $ for maximum spend of $30 which expires on 08/27/2017.
So if you hold this card for the obvious reasons of earning airline reimbursement credit you might want to check to see if you have similar offers and thus maximize earnings in categories or at merchants where other credit cards do not earn any bonus 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. Alaska airlines gift certificates can only be redeemed at alaskair.com for flights operated by Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air, Penair between Anchorage and Dutch Harbor, and SkyWest Flight Series 3440-3499 as per the Gift certificate FAQ here. However Virgin America is now owned by Alaska Airlines and recently Alaska Airlines made a change to their website where you can use the Bank of America Alaska Credit Card companion certificate for redemption on flight tickets which includes Virgin America flights. With this change technically you should be able to redeem the Alaska Airlines gift certificate on Virgin America flights as well. Let's walk through a booking which includes Alaska Airlines and Virgin America flights as shown below  Itinerary including Alaska Airlines and Virgin America flights Once you select the above flights and checkout you should see below two options on the payment page.  "My Wallet" and "Use certificates" are the options available at the checkout page You can use up to 4 Alaska Airlines gift certificate per reservation. Also the website does not allow you to redeem the gift certificates for Virgin America flights if you try to redeem them. The trick here is to add the gift certificate to your "My Wallet" which allows you to add unlimited number of gift certificates to your "My Wallet" and then redeem it from there. This way you can use more than 4 Alaska Airlines gift certificate. Also you can now redeem the wallet balance for both Alaska Airlines as well as Virgin America flights. Here is the link to My Wallet page. You can use the option to "Deposit a Gift Card or Certificate" to add the Gift certificate balance to your "My Wallet".
So hopefully the next time you are looking to use the Alaska Airlines gift certificate on Virgin America flights (Before the full integration happens) you will have a way to do it without any issues. 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.  IHG Rewards club points use to never expire. But that has changed and now the points expire with 12 months of no activity. There are many usual ways to avoid the points expiration and few of them are listed below:
The other two interesting ways to extend the life of your IHG points is to:
 Earn 500 IHG points for downloading the IHG app and logging in.
So if you are close to points expiration and do not have any upcoming stays but have at-least 5000 points in your account you can easily extend the life of your IHG 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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