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Exclusive: Alaska Airlines’ New Premium Card Global Companion Award And Fee Waiver Details Revealed

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Dec 13 2024

Alaska Airlines announced this week that the move to a single loyalty program with Hawaiian Airlines will come this summer, and that they’ll also launch a premium credit card at that time.

Brett Catlin, Alaska’s Vice President of Loyalty, Alliances and Sales, shared some additional details about the card’s companion award certificate with me.

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Barclays Cards To Disappear: How Citi’s New Exclusive Deal With American Airlines Will Reshape Your Miles Strategy

Dec 05 2024

American Airlines and Citibank have entered into an agreement to extend their cobrand credit card agreement by 10 years. This deal pushes out Barclays, and makes Citi the sole issuer of American Airlines credit cards in the U.S. starting in 2026.

We will start to see points transfers from Citibank to American AAdvantage and likely more.

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Forget Rent Points—Bilt’s New Program Lets You Earn 250,000+ Points Buying A Home

Nov 21 2024

Bilt Rewards has a new program that rewards you with 1 point per $2 spent on the purchase price of a home, for working with a real estate agent they refer you to.

This is all wrapped with first-time homebuying tools like mortgage, down payment, property tax and insurance cost calculators that help educate members. Their tool integrates the affordability calculators with real estate search.

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Today’s Senate Hearing Could Wipe Out Credit Card Rewards—And Threaten Economic Stability For Everyone

Nov 19 2024

Card, and interchange, are so woven into the fabric of the economy that it’s difficult to even predict the full extent of damage from redistributing money here not just from payment networks but also from consumers to retailers. That’s why Senator Durbin’s attempt to cap credit card swipe fees isn’t just bad policy, it’s literally insane.

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$90 Million Fine: How Apple And Goldman’s ‘Consumer-Friendly’ Credit Card Move Backfired

Oct 25 2024

Goldman learned a lot of expensive lessons with the Apple Card, which is why they want out of the consumer credit card business. But the Apple Card was a clear money-loser to everyone except Goldman even before it launched. And now they know that offering consumer-friendly features gets you in trouble with the consumer regulator, too.

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