100,000 Amex Points For Platinum

As you know, I’m not a fan of most people who blog about miles and points. It’s a shady group of weirdos who I try to avoid as much as possible. Because you guys send me great deals every day, I don’t need to spend much time at all reading other blogs. Well, a few of you have sent links to this Doctor Of Credit guy lately and I really, really like his stuff. I’m going to add him right now to my tiny sidebar list of bloggers I like. Here’s his really good post about getting 100,000 points for the American Express Platinum card.

Also, 2014 is quickly coming to a close. Doing this MileNerd thing 5 days a week isn’t exactly “hard,” but I do like to recharge after a full year of “work.” I’ll probably do another couple weeks of posts before taking a little break through January 1st. If you have anything you want me to cover before then, please just let me know.

 

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Another Bonus Jumps Up

The US Airways card is back up to 50,000 miles. As many of you know, this is a Barclays card. And what does that mean? Well, for me, it means I’ve had 4 of these cards in the last 4 years. It also means that Barclays has gotten more strict with me. I had to show them some spending to (finally) start getting approvals again.

Last note if you have this card. Once again, it would be wise to check those mailboxes. I got a postcard last week for 15,000 bonus miles if I spend $750 in December, January, and February. Am I doing it? Of course. Have a great weekend!

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80,000 Hilton Points

The good news? There’s an increased offer worth 80,000 points for the Hilton Surpass card. It’s from American Express. Spend $3,000 in 3 months for the bonus. As always, you get Gold status.

The bad news? Hilton points still suck.

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1,000 Very Easy Hyatt Points?

I’m getting some messages about this and it seems like…

  • If you have the Hyatt card, you might get an email.
  • If you have the Hyatt card AND Diamond status, you will get an email.

The email is a link to collect 1,000 quick points. As always, check spam folders for stuff like this. Personally, I do have the Hyatt card and don’t have Diamond status. No email for me.

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Miles For Parking

I’m pretty good with staying on top of big mile/point opportunities, but sometimes lose track of the smaller stuff. Reader Kevin was nice enough to send me this thread on Flyertalk. There are a couple websites mentioned (Preflight Parking and Thanks Again) that people are using to earn miles for parking. Never tried either, but they’re worth passing along. Maybe.

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