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MMWeek in Review: July 25th-31st
Each week, here at Monkey Miles, we will give you a summary of all that was published the prior week. We know that your weeks can be BANANAS and you don’t have time to check in every day, so here’s a summary of all that has happened in our MMWeek in Review
Monday, July 25th
- American Airlines Business Class Review LAX-MIA
- MMMonday Memo: European Stopover Award Hack
- Beginner’s Guide: Why are points and miles referred to as currency
- Update: Singapore Airlines Inaugural flight available for waitlist
Tuesday, July 26th
- Rumor Alert: Chase Sapphire Reserve 100K
- Beginner’s Guide: Who should get into the points game?
- Easy way to search Hyatt Cash + Points group code
- Book discount AA award tickets with reduced mileage awards
Wednesday, July 27th
- Beginner’s Guide: What is a retention bonus
- Italy/England 2016 Trip Report
- Hot Deal! Fly West Coast to Quito, Ecuador biz for <$900
- Royal Palm South Beach: Studio suite Review
Thursday, July 28th
- Centurion Lounge Miami: Review
- Beginner’s Guide: Citi 1,8,65 Rule
- Use Bank Direct to earn up to 5000 AA miles/month
- IHG Point Breaks: Stay for 5k points/ night
Friday, July 29th
- Beginner’s Guide: What is a credit freeze
- Last Day: Up to 100k Bonus AA when your buy or gift miles
- Rumor Update: Chase Sapphire Reserve 100K
- Admiral’s Club Terminal 4 LAX review
Saturday, July 30th
- Beginner’s Guide: Flexible vs fixed currency
- Where is the primo Citi Thank You business Card
- Earn 20000 AA for a new Sprint account
- Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Review: Regency Club 2 Queen
Sunday, July 31st
- Beginner’s Guide: How to rotate credit
- Air Berlin Business Class Review: San Francisco to Dusseldorf
- Cathay Pacific Business and First Class lounge San Francisco Review
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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