News and notes from around the interweb:
- $150 bonus for opening a SunTrust checking account in-branch.
- Merrill Lynch has a mysterious new American Express card for wealthy clients
- Flights from UAE to Baghdad Suspended After FlyDubai Aircraft Hit By Gunfire
- Apparently this is still a thing, though I wouldn’t do it: selling your credit card authorized user slots to help others’ boost their credit scores.
- A prepaid debit card that doesn’t seem to work well for just generating spend, but does seem to offer free Chipotle.
- Earn AAdvantage miles for hotel reviews. Not worth my time at 70 miles per, but some will do this.
- Marriott buying Canada’s Delta Hotels.
- Alaska extending free streaming inflight entertainment for two more months, starting to rent Microsoft tablets February 1.
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The ML Octave Card is actually not meant to be super mysterious (as far as I know), it’s just super targeted. This is a card issued by BoA but on the Amex Network (part of Global Network Services or GNS internally at Amex). The idea is that the card come with a high annual fee (I think it was just south of $1000) but with lots of perks (airline reimbursement similar to the Platinum Card, 2-3 points per dollar, etc).
HolidayCheck also partners with Miles&More, AirBerlin, and Etihad. And PINS, whatever that is. You can get 100 M&M, 150 TopBonus, or 150 Guest miles per review. Or 150 PINS…