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Middle Age Miles News & Notes 11/11/19 – Great Rakuten-IHG 11%/11x deal; GC deals at Safeway & Staples; Millennium Hotels; Ticket Club; Airline shopping portal bonuses

We wanted to be sure to get a News & Notes article out this morning to capture any Veterans Day/Singles Day deals. We were hoping for more travel-related deals for this holiday, ahead of Black Friday/Cyber Monday, but the offerings…

Earn Extra Miles and Cash Back with Holiday Shopping Portal Bonuses – and How to Maximize Them with Gift Card Purchases

Last Friday, many airline shopping portals, as well as the cashback UPromise portal, came out with new November holiday bonuses. Several of these look to be very valuable. Unfortunately, when the offers were released, we were scrambling to get out…

Craig at Middle Age MilesNovember 4, 2019November 4, 2019 2019 4th Quarter, AAdvantage eShopping, Alaska Mileage Plan Shopping, Delta SkyMiles Shopping, Manufactured Spend, Shopping Portals, Southwest Rapid Rewards Shopping, United MileagePlus Shopping, Upromise 6 Comments

Middle Age Miles News & Notes 10/28/19 – Safeway VGC deal; IHG PointBreaks; Apple shopping portal offers; Silvercar Amex Offer; AA new routes to NZ; Southwest schedule extension on Wed 10/30

Here are some Middle Age Miles News & Notes for this fine Monday, while we continue to work through what our strategy might be for the newly-revamped Amex Green personal card: 1. Safeway/Just 4 U – $10 off when you…

Craig at Middle Age MilesOctober 28, 2019October 28, 2019 AAdvantage eShopping, Alaska Mileage Plan Shopping, American, Amex Offers, IHG Rewards Club, Manufactured Spend, News & Notes, Silvercar, Southwest, Upromise 2 Comments

How Did We Do on That Rakuten-LifeLock Deal?

Introduction At Middle Age Miles, our mission is to help you live your dreams through travel and points. One of the ways we do this, of course, is to find valuable points-and-miles opportunities and tell you about them. Here’s a…

Craig at Middle Age MilesOctober 24, 2019October 24, 2019 Case Studies, Data Points & Experiments, Ebates 5 Comments

Middle Age Miles News & Notes 10/9/19 – AA Business Extra-IHG Business Edge promo; HIX 12% thru UPromise; Amex Offer for Caesars; Targeted 45k Wyndham Rewards Card Offer

We have just a few quick tidbits for today’s News & Notes article – here you go: 1. AA Business Extra-IHG Business Edge Cross-Promotion for New IHG Business Edge Members American Airlines’ Business Extra is a program that we really…

Craig at Middle Age MilesOctober 9, 2019October 9, 2019 AA Business Extra, Amex Offers, Caesars Entertainment, Caesars Total Rewards, Holiday Inn Express, IHG Business Edge, News & Notes, Upromise, Wyndham Rewards Visa Signature 5 Comments

Middle Age Miles News & Notes 10/7/19 – IHG points sale; Points.com news; UA shopping portal bonus; AA Vacations discount code for Europe

Happy Monday everyone! Let’s get you caught up on 4 News & Notes items from over the weekend and this morning: 1. IHG Points Sale [Targeted]: 80% bonus + 10% off = points for 0.5 cpp IHG runs regular points-sale…

Craig at Middle Age MilesOctober 7, 2019October 7, 2019 AA Vacations, IHG Rewards Club, Top Cashback, United MileagePlus Shopping No Comments

Raise.com – Another Day of $10 Off $125+ with Promo Code EVERYTHING – Today Only (9/30/19)

Happy Monday! We hope everyone had a good weekend. We’ll kick off today with another one-day Raise.com promotion where you can get $10 off when you spend at least $125 on discounted gift cards, using the promo code EVERYTHING. This…

Craig at Middle Age MilesSeptember 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Alaska Mileage Plan Shopping, Raise.com No Comments

Middle Age Miles News & Notes 9/27/19 – Raise/TCB; Barclays cards benefit changes; Staples fee-free VGCs; Hyatt; Adria; Southwest route news; Delta/LATAM; Vegas cab flat rates coming soon

This week we’ve been traveling to Seattle, so we’re a little behind on News & Notes for the past couple of days. Let’s do a quick catch-up of some interesting tidbits we’ve seen during the latter half of this week,…

Craig at Middle Age MilesSeptember 27, 2019September 27, 2019 Barclays, Delta, Hyatt (World of Hyatt), Las Vegas, Manufactured Spend, Southwest, Top Cashback No Comments

Middle Age Miles News & Notes 9/23/19 – Citi Double Cash Rewards to TYPs; Loss of Citi Benefits; Choice & IHG 10%/10x on Rakuten; IHG New Partnership with Mr & Mrs Smith

1. Citi Double Cash Rewards Now Convertible to ThankYou Points For the past few days, the points-and-miles world has been abuzz about the apparent imminent change by Citi to allow rewards from the Double Cash card to be converted to…

Craig at Middle Age MilesSeptember 23, 2019September 23, 2019 Choice, Citi, Double Cash, Ebates, IHG 4 Comments

Middle Age Miles News & Notes 9/18/19 – Amex Offer for Lowe’s; Hyatt Points Purchase Bonus; Accor; Kimpton; Delta SkyMiles; and Google Fi

Yesterday, in lieu of a scatter-shot “News & Notes” post, we published a summary article focused on the many Fall 2019 hotel chain points promotions: Middle Age Miles: Round-Up of Fall 2019 Hotel Chain Points Promotions – Accor, Best Western,…

Craig at Middle Age MilesSeptember 18, 2019September 18, 2019 Accor, Amex Offers, Delta Skymiles, Hyatt (World of Hyatt), Kimpton, Top Cashback No Comments

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