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Get Your Reward Surcharges Waived When Redeeming For Qatar Airways QSuites

Oct 11 2024

Qatar Airways, like many frequent flyer programs, adds cash surcharges when you redeem your miles. Their award travel isn’t free. Still, it can be an incredible deal to redeem 70,000 points to fly arguably the best business class in the world… even with a few hundred bucks out of pocket.

But what if you didn’t have to pay these cash surcharges at all?

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Citi Moves to Oust Barclays From American Airlines Cards: What Cardholders Could Lose

Sep 20 2024

Barclays just isn’t big enough to bid effectively for the whole American AAdvantage card portfolio. Citibank had the chance to take the whole thing, and also to offer points transfers to AAdvantage as part of its ThankYou-brand card product suite. But they balked at the price. Ultimately American got the biggest deal possible by leaving two card issuers in place. That could change.

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Bilt: 50% Transfer Bonus To Avianca LifeMiles, Up To 100% Bonus To Virgin

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Aug 27 2024

September 1 Rent Day is a milestone. It’s the last one where you can earn double points on the Bilt Mastercard up to 10,000 points. It’s also the last one where tax payments will count towards the bonus. Starting with October 1 Rent Day the bonus will be capped at 1,000 additional points, and tax payments don’t count.

I’ve found Rent Day to be highly lucrative, and I’ve often maxed out this bonus.

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