Danny the Deal Guru: "American Express has brought back two promotions to earn extra points for adding Employee Cards to your business accounts. These offers are not quite as good as the ones we used to see a couple of years ago, but they can still be valuable as you can earn up to 5X on all your spending."
You can earn 15,000 points when a new employee cardholder spends $4,000 within 6 months when you add a new employee card to the Amex Business Platinum, Amex Business Gold, and Amex Blue Business Plus.
Use the links below to check if you're eligible:
Direct link to Business Platinum offer
Direct link to Business Gold offer
Direct link to Blue Business Plus offer
Points Wire Note:
For each business card you have, you can add up to 5 new employees to earn the bonus. It's a lot to track but you could earn a ton of Amex Membership Rewards points. Don't forget, you can add Employee Business Expense Cards which don't have annual fees but still qualify for the bonus.
American Airlines AAdvantage eShopping and United MileagePlus Shopping are both running promos for the new year. You can earn up to 1,000 bonus miles with each by meeting the following qualifications:
American AAdvantage eShopping
Spend $200+, earn 500 bonus miles. Spend $400+, earn 1,000 bonus miles.
The bonus miles do not count as Loyalty Points. However, now is still a good time to use the AA shopping portal for a Dell purchase and earn up to 9x miles and Loyalty Points (even better if you have an Amex Business Platinum).
Direct link to offer and terms
United MileagePlus Shopping
Spend $150+, earn 500 bonus miles. Spend $300+, earn 1,000 bonus miles.
Earn 500 bonus Hyatt points per night at select new properties through April 29, 2024.
Direct link to eligible properties
Save 24% and get free breakfast at select Hyatt properties in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East through May 6, 2024. You need to use the Offer Code "SALE24" to get the discount.
Travel on Points: "There is a new Southwest credit card spending offer that could net you up to 8,000 extra Rapid Rewards points. This one is a bit different since it needs to be located in your Southwest Rapid Rewards account and not via Chase"
Offer Terms: Earn 4x up to $2,000 through February 29, 2024.
Log into your Southwest account to check for the offer.
The American Airlines shopping portal is currently offering 9X points on accessories purchased from Dell. If you're just a bit short of earning the next level of status with American Airlines, this could be a great way to top off your Loyalty Points before the deadline of February 29, 2024.
Even better, if you have an Amex Business Platinum, you can use your $200 Dell credit for the January to June timeframe and get reimbursed for all or part of your purchase.
Dell allows you to split payment across multiple cards online so you can use an Amex Business Platinum to cover $200 of a purchase and another card to cover the rest, if you prefer.
Nice flag by Frequent Miler.
While the Chase Freedom Flex (and Chase Freedom) officially offer rotating 5%/5x quarterly bonus categories, co-brand cardholders often have bonus offers. The kicker is that you have to add the offer to your card to activate it. Sometimes, Chase won't even let you know the offer is available so it's up to you to check.
Travel on Points flagged that a new round of offers is live. These offers run through March 31, 2024 unless otherwise noted.
So far, I've seen the following offers:
If you've been considering a switch to T-Mobile, you may be able to earn 10,000 SkyMiles for making that switch. To be eligible, you need to have had a U.S. mobile plan for the previous 90 days. You'll receive the 10,000 SkyMiles after three months with your new T-Mobile plan.
Eligible T-Mobile Plans:
Points Wire Note:
Delta SkyMiles are among the least valuable miles in the world so I wouldn't change mobile plans just for the 10,000 miles. However, if you're planning to switch to T-Mobile anyway, you might as well pick up some extra miles!
British Airways launched Balance Booster about 6 months ago and it's now the cheapest way to buy Avios. Head for Points posted a reminder about this and I realized that many people don't even know it's an option.
What Is Balance Booster?
Based on the Avios you've earned in the last 30 days, you can buy up to 300% of that total. For example, if you have transferred 10,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points to your British Airways Executive Club account in the last 30 days, paying for a 300% boost would get you an additional 30,000 Avios.
Eligible Avios For Boosting
You can "boost" Avios earned via the following methods:
Transfers from other airlines on the Avios platform are not eligible.
How Much Does It Cost?
While you can pay for a 100% or 200% boost, the best deal is at 300% Currently, you can boost your Avios for 1.2 cents per point when doing a 300% boost.
Points Wire Note:
Since it's so easy to earn Avios via transferable points in the U.S., it's important to consider whether you even need to buy Avios.
If you need more than you can transfer for a particular award, it could certainly be useful. Additionally, if you want to save some of your transferable points for another booking, this could be useful as well.
You can earn 2x Alaska miles on Lyft rides to an airport in the U.S. or Canada through January 14, 2024 at 11:59pm ET. You must link your Alaska Mileage Plan and Lyft accounts prior to booking a ride to be eligible. Additionally, you need to select Alaska Mileage Plan as your your travel partner in the Lyft app.
Bonus miles should post within 7 days of your completed ride.
Points Wire Note:
Personally, I prefer to link my Bilt Rewards account to Lyft as I value the flexibility of Bilt points more than Alaska miles. However, if you need to top off your Alaska miles balance to book a specific award, earning 2x during the promo might be useful if you have a few rides to the airport.
Of course, if you really wanted to scale things, you could offer to book friends and family who need rides to the airport then have them reimburse you.
Disclosure: I serve on a Bilt advisory board and may earn a referral bonus if you use the links below.
3 Transfer Bonuses Up To 150%
Bilt is bringing back three massive transfer bonus promos for Rent Day On January 1, 2024.
If you transfer Bilt points to Air France-KLM Flying Blue, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club, or IHG One Rewards on January 1, you can get a 75% to 150% bonus. Your transfer bonus is based on your Bilt Rewards status.
Blue member must transfer at least 2,000 Bilt points. Your transfer bonus is based on your Bilt status as of January 1, 2024.
Double Points On Rent Day Purchases
On Rent Day, you can earn double points on all purchases (not including rent). This includes double points on Bilt's bonus categories which means you'll earn the following:
You can earn up to 10,000 bonus points on Rent Day. You must use your card 5 times per statement period to earn points.
$5 Lyft Credit
Once you've linked your Bilt and Lyft accounts, you can activate a $5 credit. On January 1, you'll need to select "Activate credits" in the Bilt app on the Rent Day tab. Within 72 hours, you should see a credit under "Lyft Pass" in the payment section of the Lyft app. Your credit is valid for 90
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