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A debit card that offers $550 per year in rewards

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Earlier today I published a method for getting the Morgan Stanley Platinum card for free.  More specifically, the post detailed how to earn the Morgan Stanley $550 Annual Engagement Bonus.  This relationship bonus perfectly...
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ANA Surcharges Reduced To $1 Per Leg, Potentially Saving Hundreds

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ANA has made a great improvement when booking award flights as they're now charging only $1 per leg on many routes. On many ANA-flown routes, if you book a round trip flight, the surcharge will...
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US Bank Altitude Reserve Allowing Dining Purchases Towards $325 Travel Credit (Temporarily) + 3x...

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US Bank has announced a couple of enhancements to its Altitude Reserve card, both of which relate to dining purchases. First up, the card's $325 travel credit can be used towards dining purchases through December...
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Sapphire Preferred + Reserve possible via upgrade

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Miles to Memories has reported some data points indicating that it is possible for one person to hold both the Chase Sapphire Preferred and Chase Sapphire Reserve card at the same time. I don't...
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Air Canada converting vouchers to miles at a poor rate

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We recently reported that AIr Canada would soon offer the ability to take a refund for a flight in the form of Aeroplan miles. I believe that conversion was scheduled to go live on...
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Q2 2022: Quarterly Bonus Categories For 5% Cards

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Credit cards with rotating quarterly categories have opened registration for Q2 2022. We've provided details below of each card's categories from April 1 to June 30, 2022, along with links to activate your bonuses. Chase Freedom Bonus...
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IHG Has Introduced Dynamic Pricing & Is Offering Some Great Redemptions

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In the last couple of days, IHG introduced more widespread dynamic pricing for award bookings. While this would likely be bad news normally, there are currently opportunities to book reward nights at lower rates...
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[Update: Now through 9/30] Redeem Capital One miles for a new phone (or your...

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Update: Capital One reached out yesterday to let us know that this limited-time redemption opportunity would be available until September 30, 2020. This is in addition to the same time extension on the consumer...
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Capital One brings back some travel gift cards [including special offers]

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Color me pleasantly surprised: Capital One has brought back some travel gift card redemptions in its gift card portal. That's good news -- while they had said that they were working on restoring them, we...
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Emirates Slashes Award Fees – Now Worth A Second Look

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Emirates has slashed the taxes and fees charged on award bookings by ~90%. In the past, their $1,000+ fees on award flights killed any semblance of a deal using Skywards miles, but these changes...
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(Updated) American’s poor “waived award redeposit” policy

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Note: We've received a number of success reports of recent cancellations with waived fees despite the way the terms are written and quoted below. It looks like American is indeed waiving redeposit fees for those...
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United one-time lounge passes extended for 3 months

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This morning in response to our updated COVID-19 cancellation and elite status policies post, a reader asked if we had heard any news about United one-time club lounge passes. Whereas United had announced extensions...
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Choice Privileges bumping status up +1 for 2020 (extend w/ 5 nights)

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In this morning's newly updated guide to COVID-19 cancellation policies, we added the various elite status extensions and 2020 shortcuts added for each program. In updating the section on Choice Privileges, I noticed something...
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Air Canada To Let You Cancel Tickets & Convert To Non-Expiring Vouchers Or Miles

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Air Canada has announced what appears to be a fairly generous policy. From June 15, 2020, you'll be able to cancel your flight up to two hours before it's due to depart and take...

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