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Earn A Southwest Companion Pass And 125,000 Points To Spend

by Gary Leff on September 18, 2020

Sep 18 2020

Chase has one of the most lucrative credit card offers we’ve seen for the premium Southwest Airlines business card. It’s a great card as I’ll show you in a moment but let’s first look at the initial bonus offer for the card, meant to make a really big splash and it does with up to 100,000 points as an initial bonus, which in 2020 is enough to earn a Companion Pass. When you earn the bonus you have enough points for a Companion Pass even under standard rules that return in 2021.

Earn 100,000 Avios Plus A Rebate Up To $600 a Year, Too

by Gary Leff on September 17, 2020

Sep 17 2020

I like the British Airways Visa Signature® Card a lot more than I did before Chase updated the card with new benefits. This is the first card that ever had a six figure initial bonus offer in the U.S., it has a companion award ticket you can earn make it worth considering, but it’s the rebate up to $600 a year when you book award tickets that’s most enthralling.

Google Partnering With 8 Banks To Launch GooglePay Digital Bank Accounts

by Gary Leff on August 5, 2020

Aug 05 2020

Google is no stranger to financial services (GooglePay) and fundamentally checking accounts are about consumer data: how much do people earn (deposits, especially payroll deposits) and what exactly do they spend money on?

They’ve now taken the step of announcing digital bank accounts inside Google Pay along with eight banks.

Get $50 Back When You Spend $200 With Marriott

by Gary Leff on July 31, 2020

Jul 31 2020

Log into your American Express account and scroll down, there’s a new ‘Amex Offer’ that appears to be widely available that many cardmembers can opt into by adding it to the card account of their choosing: $50 back when you spend $200 or more with Marriott by September 21.

The Surprising Reason American Express Says Spending On Airlines And Hotel Cards Is Strong

by Gary Leff on July 27, 2020

Jul 27 2020

During the American Express second quarter earnings call, CEO Stephen Squeri offered a number of insights into their credit card business and travel benefits.

The company is seeing lower rewards expenses because the highest cost rewards are usually travel rewards, and that’s not how people are spending their points. There’s also less usage of travel-related benefits. I was surprise though that Delta, Marriott, and Hilton cards have been outperforming other American Express cards.

New York Senate Passes Law To Prevent Banks From Keeping Your Points When Closing An Account

by Gary Leff on July 24, 2020

Jul 24 2020

The New York State passed a bill that would require banks to give consumers 90 days to use their credit card rewards points if their account is closed either by the consumer or the bank.

New Chase Offer: 15% Rebate On United Airlines

by Gary Leff on July 11, 2020

Jul 11 2020

15% rebate on a purchase of $100 or more from United, up to a maximum of $57 back (which means maxing out with a $380 purchase).

Amex Offering Cardholders $50 To Shop At Small Businesses

by Gary Leff on June 29, 2020

Jun 29 2020

American Express conjured up a holiday, Small Business Saturday, in a pique of marketing brilliance. They wanted to promote card acceptance with small merchants in a drive to reach parity with Visa and Mastercard, and promote awareness among their own cardmembers that Amex is accepted at small businesses.

American Express has a new small business promotion now – an ‘Amex Offer’ you can add to one personal card that will give you a $5 rebate on up to 10 purchases of $10 or more (total $50) at eligible small businesses.

Isn’t It Risky To Lend $5 Billion To MileagePlus When United Keeps Devaluing The Program?

by Gary Leff on June 20, 2020

credit card with chains wrapped around it

Jun 20 2020

Lenders are putting up $5 billion against United’s MileagePlus. They have a huge interest in making sure the currency remains as attractive – or becomes even more attractive – to program members, to assure the revenue stream needed to pay back the loans.

Yet credit card companies have had ‘anti-devaluation’ clauses in their co-brand agreements for years and it hasn’t done any good. Here’s why.

Dangerous New Practice: Hotel Adding 3% To Bill For Accepting Credit Cards