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Delta SkyMiles shopping has now launched a back-to-school shopping portal bonus, joining Alaska, Southwest, American, and United’s shopping portal promos — all of which offer a bonus that varies according to which spending threshold you meet. If you were to max out all of these, you could earn a total of 8,700 bonus miles. When I have more in purchases to make than the cap on my preferred airline, I’ll usually shop through a family member’s account to max out the promo for them as well.
The Deals
- Delta Sky Miles shopping portal:
- Spend $200, get 500 miles
- Spend $400, get 1,000 miles
- Valid 7/31/23 to 8/10/23
- Direct link to offer
- Southwest Rapid Rewards shopping portal:
- Spend $125, earn 250 bonus points
- Spend $300, earn 1,000 bonus points
- Spend $500, earn 2,000 bonus points
- Valid 7/17/23 to 8/14/23
- Direct link to offer
- United Mileage Plus Shopping portal”
- Spend $150, earn 500 bonus miles
- Spend $350, earn 1,500 bonus miles
- Spend $600, earn 2,500 bonus miles
- Valid 7/16/23 to 8/14/23
- Direct link to offer
- Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan shopping portal:
- Spend $150 & earn 300 bonus Mileage Plan miles
- Spend $300 & earn 600 bonus Mileage Plan miles
- Spend $600 & earn 1,200 bonus Mileage Plan miles
- Valid 7/24/23 to 8/14/23
- Direct link to offer.
- American Airlines shopping portal:
- Spend $200 & earn 500 bonus AAdvantage miles
- Spend $400 & earn 1,000 bonus AAdvantage miles
- Spend $700 & earn 2,000 bonus AAdvantage miles
- Valid 7/24/23 to 8/13/23
- Direct link to offer.
Key Terms
- Alaska Airlines
- During the “Back-to-School Bonus” offer, which runs from 7/24/2023 through 8/14/2023 at 11:59:59 pm ET (the “Bonus Period”), Member will receive a one-time bonus of up to 1,200 Mileage Plan bonus miles on qualifying purchases made through the Mileage Plan Shopping mall or from purchases made through Mileage Plan Shopping in-store offers.
- This one-time bonus award will be determined using one of the following tiers, based on Member’s cumulative qualifying purchases made during the Bonus Period: Tier 1 bonus: 300 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $150; Tier 2 bonus: 600 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $300; or Tier 3 bonus: 1,200 miles for qualifying purchases of $600 or more.
- “Qualifying purchases” do not include returns, cancellations, shipping and handling, taxes, gift card or other cash equivalent purchases, and certain products that are not eligible for bonus miles. Please see the Mileage Plan Shopping site for details on product eligibility and other restrictions.
- Please allow up to 10 weeks after the Bonus Period for bonus miles to post to your Mileage Plan Shopping account.
- The Tier 3 bonus provides the maximum number of miles that will be awarded.
- American Airlines
- During the “Back-to-School Bonus” offer, which runs from 7/24/2023 through 8/13/2023 at 11:59:59 pm ET (the “Bonus Period”), Member will earn a one-time bonus of up to 2,000 AAdvantage miles on qualifying purchases, in addition to the base AAdvantage miles earned from shopping online through the AAdvantage eShopping mall.
- This one-time bonus award will be determined based on Member’s cumulative qualifying purchases made during the Bonus Period using one of the following tiers: Tier 1 bonus: 500 bonus miles for qualifying purchases of at least $200; Tier 2 bonus: 1,000 bonus miles for qualifying purchases of $400; or Tier 3 bonus: 2,000 bonus miles for qualifying purchases of $700 or more.
- “Qualifying purchases” do not include returns, cancellations, shipping and handling, taxes, gift card or other cash equivalent purchases, and certain products that are not eligible for bonus miles. Please see the AAdvantage eShopping mall site for details on product eligibility and other restrictions.
- Please allow up to 10 weeks after the Bonus Period for bonus miles to post to your AAdvantage eShopping account.
- The Tier 3 bonus provides the maximum number of miles that will be awarded.
- Unless specified, AAdvantage miles earned through this promotion/offer do not count towards AAdvantage status qualification or AAdvantage Million Miler status.
- Delta Sky Miles Shopping
- During the “Back-to-School Bonus” offer, which runs from 7/31/2023 through 8/10/2023 at 11:59:59 pm ET (the “Bonus Period”), Member will receive a one-time bonus of up to 1,000 bonus miles on qualifying purchases, in addition to the standard miles earned from shopping online through the SkyMiles® Shopping mall.
- This one-time bonus award will be determined using one of the following tiers, based on Member’s cumulative qualifying purchases made during the Bonus Period: Tier 1 bonus: 500 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $200; or Tier 2 bonus: 1,000 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $400 or more.
- Returns, cancellations, shipping and handling, taxes, gift card, or other cash equivalent purchases, and certain products are not included in the bonus miles eligibility calculation; please see the SkyMiles® Shopping mall site for details on product eligibility and/or any coupon code details or other usage restrictions.
- Please allow up to 10 weeks for bonus miles to post to your SkyMiles® Shopping account.
- The maximum number of bonus miles that will be awarded to an eligible SkyMiles® Shopping account through the “Back-to-School Bonus” offer is 1,000 bonus miles. Void where prohibited by law.
- Southwest Airlines
- During the “Back-to-School Bonus” offer, which runs from July 17, 2023 at 12:00 a.m. ET through August 14, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the “Bonus Period”), Rapid Rewards Shopping® Member will earn a one-time bonus of up to 2,000 Rapid Rewards® bonus points on qualifying purchases, in addition to the standard Rapid Rewards points earned from shopping online through Rapid Rewards Shopping.
- “Qualifying purchases” do not include returns, cancellations, shipping and handling, taxes, gift card, or other cash equivalent purchases, and certain products that are not eligible for bonus points. Please see the Rapid Rewards Shopping site for details on product eligibility and other restrictions.
- This one-time bonus award will be determined using one of the following tiers, based on Member’s cumulative qualifying purchases made during the Bonus Period: Tier one bonus: Earn 250 Rapid Rewards bonus points for qualifying purchases of $125 – $299.99; Tier two bonus: Earn 1,000 Rapid Rewards bonus points for qualifying purchases of $300 – $499.99; or Tier three bonus: Earn 2,000 Rapid Rewards bonus points for qualifying purchases of $500 or more.
- Please allow up to 10 weeks after the Bonus Period for Rapid Rewards bonus points to post to your Rapid Rewards account.
- The Tier 3 bonus provides the maximum number of points that will be awarded to an eligible Rapid Rewards account. Void where prohibited by law.
- United Mileage Plus Shopping
- During the “Back-to-School Bonus” offer, which runs from 7/16/2023 through 8/14/2023 at 11:59:59 pm ET (the “Bonus Period”), Member will earn a one-time bonus of up to 2,500 MileagePlus® bonus award miles on qualifying purchases made through the MileagePlus ShoppingSM mall or from purchases made through MileagePlus Shopping in-store offers.
- This one-time bonus award will be based on Member’s cumulative qualifying purchases made during the Bonus Period using one of the following tiers: Tier 1 bonus: 500 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $150; Tier 2 bonus: 1,500 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $350; or Tier 3 bonus: 2,500 miles for qualifying purchases of $600 or more.
- “Qualifying purchases” do not include returns, cancellations, shipping and handling, taxes, gift card or other cash equivalent purchases, and certain products that are not eligible for bonus miles. Please see the MileagePlus Shopping mall site for details on product eligibility and other restrictions.
- Please allow up to 10 weeks after the Bonus Period for bonus award miles to post to your MileagePlus Shopping account. The Tier 3 bonus provides the maximum number of miles that will be awarded. Void where prohibited by law.
Quick Thoughts
The Alaska portal offer has easy math as you’ll earn an effective 2x bonus miles per dollar for each of the spending thresholds if spending that exact amount. That’s not the most generous offer ever, but it could make sense focusing on this portal if the rates on the retailers you want to shop at are already high through the portal.
Another benefit of the Alaska portal (and the United portal too for that matter) is that they have an in-store card-linked program. Those purchases count towards the spending requirements for these types of promo, so it’s nice that you aren’t limited to only earning on online purchases.
The American Airlines portal promo is more generous, giving 2.5x for the first two tiers and 2.86x for the third tier when spending at those exact levels. Note that you don’t earn a corresponding number of Loyalty Points for the bonus miles from this promo, although you do earn a corresponding number of Loyalty Points based on the regular earnings through the portal. For example, if you spend $700 at a retailer where the rate is 4x, you’ll earn 2,800 miles based on that 4x rate as well as 2,800 Loyalty Points. You’ll then earn 2,000 bonus miles from this promotion.
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Stephen, I used to score all these with Visa Giftcards on Giftcards.com. That stopped working some time ago. Do you know a strategy similar to that? I tried Quill, it didn’t work either
Not with the ease of Giftcards.com. The United and Alaska shopping portals both have card-linked in-store offers. You can sometimes stack those with Amex Offers to give you additional options beyond just online shopping and these can sometimes make sense for third party gift card resellers, but on the Visa/Mastercard gift card side of things, I’m not aware of anything that’ll definitely work.
got it, thanks for the quick reply!
Can you double dip with Rakuten or Cap1 etc.
Unfortunately not