The American Express Membership Rewards program is one of the best out there. I did a detailed comparison between Membership Rewards and Chase Ultimate Rewards in my last post. Well, the program just got better! For a limited time though. American Express OPEN has increased the sign up offer for its The Business Gold Rewards Card® from American Express OPEN to 50,000 Points! You get the points after spending $5,000 in the first three months of getting the card. This is an excellent offer, especially given the no annual fee …

I logged into United.com this morning and saw my lifetimes miles total – 500,024. I am half-way to become a Million Miler! For United MileagePlus, One Million Miles is a significant milestone (no pun intended). It gives you and a significant other Gold Status for life! No matter how many miles you fly in a year henceforth!
Most airlines and some hotel programs have a Lifetime Miles reward. It is their way of rewarding customers who have been loyal over an extended period of time. For airlines, it is typically at …

For all of us who are mileage junkies, getting the best value for the hard earned miles/points is of premium importance. I am of that camp too. But, when it comes to spending money, I work much harder to make a living than I do to earn miles. So, when I posted my recent article describing how to redeem American Express Membership Rewards points for airline tickets, the backlash I got was surprising. I gave my own example of how I redeemed 35,000 Membership Rewards Points for a $350 airline …

Just as I posted my last post comparing Chase Ink offers, Chase has changed the offers and eliminated the offers that gave half the points after the first purchase and half when you hit the higher spending requirements. Now all links available have the lower spending requirements of $5,000 in three months to get the full 50,000 points.
You can apply here:
Ink Bold® Business Card

Earn 50,000 bonus points after you spend $5,000 in the first 3 months from account opening
No interest charges because it’s a pay in full charge card
Earn up …

** Chase are announced new links and the older offers in this post are now obsolete. Please visit my updated post on Chase Ink Offers **
There have been multiple offers for the Chase Ink cards floating around. Some thru affiliate links and some directly from Chase. (I wish these credit card companies would keep thing simple and run only one offer at a time. Life is complex without having to check out and compare every credit card offer out there!) Anyways, for the Chase Ink cards, I am consolidating the …

Today is the last day of the Hyatt Gold Passport 44,000 point giveaway. The contest ends Midnight EST, tonight, Sunday, March 4th. As I described in the original, you can enter as many times as you want. You just need to make sure the comment you leave is a real Hyatt property, and no two of your comments are consecutive – let someone else comment before you do. So, go forth and enter to win!
Note: Comments to this post will not be considered as entries. Please leave your comments on …

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That gives me some great benefits, such as free unlimited domestic upgrades, Exit row seats when I do not get upgraded, automatic Economy+ for when I don’t get the exit row, free checked bags and most importantly, Star Gold level on Star Alliance, for all my non-United travel. … My Balance: 50,970 – 5,000 = 45,970 Make a list of all other sources that earn you miles and see how many will come in for sure.

American Express has been very creative off late. Last weekend they had the Small Business $25 offer, that they participated in. Now they have their new Gift Chain offer. Instead of me explaining it in details here, I will pass you on to an excellent and detailed post by Mommy Points where you can read all about it. (Thanks Mommy Points.) Here is a brief synopsis:

Register for the Promo
Spend $25 or more on any of the participating retailers
Get a free gift from AmEx

And oh yeah, if you win the gift …

Daraius Dubash writes the Airline Mile blog Million Mile Secrets where he shares his secrets of how he has earned and redeemed Millions of Miles. He also has a series where he interviews other Airline Miles junkies and experts. He just published his interview with me. I really enjoyed answering some great questions he asked. Check it out…
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