Why is Chase’s Sapphire Preferred Offering a 60,000 Point Initial Bonus?

Aug 22 2019

The Chase Sapphire Preferred Card was the ‘it’ card several years ago and it remains just as good. It had a generous initial bonus, earned double points on travel and dining, came with primary collision coverage when you rent cards, and points transfer to a variety of airline and hotel points programs.

So why the need to increase the bonus to 60,000 points after $4000 spend in the first 3 months of cardmembership?

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United Airlines Adds Several New Europe Flights and Makes West Coast – India Year-Round

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Aug 22 2019

It’s great to see the airline deploying their new premium-heavy 46 business class seat 767s aggressively, and not just out of Newark or even on pure business routes.

The new Polaris business class seat is a competitive advantage not because it’s better than what Delta, American, or Air France offer – or what British Airways or Virgin Atlantic will offer – it isn’t. It generally lags all of those. However they’re able to offer fully flat direct aisle access business class seats, attractively designed, using less cabin space. That allows them to fit more seats into the same footprint, or add seats without taking out as many from a lesser cabin.

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IHG’s New Promotion is Out and it Varies For Everyone, What Did You Get?

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Aug 22 2019

IHG Rewards Club is out with its new promotion and to the surprise of absolutely no one on earth it’s called Accelerate.

Registration required for the earning period between September 1 and December 31. You’ll be able to take advantage of a targeted set of offers — various tasks that earn various levels of points. My offer is to earn up to 40,650 points.

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25% Award Discount on Top Hyatt Resorts, Stacks With 10% Credit Card Points Rebate

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Aug 22 2019

Hyatt is offering 25% off the cash portion of cash and points redemptions and up to a 25% rebate on free night award redemptions at top properties, and for a brief period this even stacks with the 10% rebate available to co-brand credit card customers.

This includes the Park Hyatts Maldives, St. Kitts, Mallorca and MIlan as well as Andaz Papagayo and more.

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