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Leaked AMEX 120k Upgrade Offers and Solid Increased Hilton Offers

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We’ve got a juicy leaked AMEX strategy today. Read on below.

Today’s in-flight entertainment:

🧠 Strats/Hacks/Tricks: Leaked - 120k MR Points for Upgrading to AMEX Business Platinum

⏳️ Time-Sensitive: 

  • Up To 175k Hilton Honors SUBs

  • 40k Points From Virgin Red Mastercard

  • Buy lifemiles at 1.1 cents each (Best-Ever 200% bonus)

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📣 WHAT EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT

  • ICYMI - Why it makes sense to transfer AMEX points to Hawaiian Airlines ASAP and get Hawaiian Airlines cards.

  • IHG has Bonus Elite Night Credits on your next 2 stays b/w 10/01 and 12/31, up to 7 nights per stay. Register here.

  • IHG also has 3X bonus points at five hotel brands b/w 10/01 and 12/31. Register here.

  • Hyatt has 2x points for Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific, up to 20k bonus points starting with your 2nd qualifying stay b/w 10/07 and 12/20. Register here.

  • Southwest has 30% off base fares until 09/26 with code FRIENDS. Travel b/w 10/24 to 01/31/25. Browse routes here and see terms/blackout dates.

  • American Airlines seems to offer targeted promotions giving Loyalty Points for redeeming award flights. Log in and check your Promos section.

  • Citi in talks to be the exclusive partner for American Airlines credit cards.

  • Wells Fargo launches 1:1 transfers to Virgin Red/Atlantic. (ht DDG)

  • Chase has targeted promos for 10k-20k bonus points after booking flights, car rentals, cruise activities, tours, or hotel stays. Beware that previous promotions may not have tracked properly. See if you’re targeted here.

  • Giftcards.com has $100 gift cards for $90 with code GCGC10 until 09/27 while supplies last—limit of 3, but likely per transaction.

🧠 CREDIT CARD STRATS/HACKS/TRICKS
Leaked - 120k MR Points for Upgrading to AMEX Business Platinum

Now that this has been publicly leaked, one of two things will happen:

  • Everyone who uses these links will get shut down by AMEX OR

  • Nothing and everyone who used the links gets away with it

If you’re a gambler, now’s your time to shine. Just make sure you have an immediate use for the points or transfer them out of AMEX ASAP.

As it’s no longer under wraps and spreading like wildfire across the internet, I’ll explain the most optimal way to leverage this promotion.

The AMEX Business Platinum upgrade offer requires you to have an open AMEX Business Gold card. If you’re targeted, your offer details will be:

  • Spend $10k to get 120k MR points

It’s not immediately obvious but the $10k upgrade spend can overlap with the Business Gold’s initial $10k MSR. It will count towards both.

Combine this with any of the 5 employee card offers (for which the spend also counts towards the main card spend requirements) and you’ve got yourself an insane stacked offer that can go as high as:

200k ABG + 120k upgrade + 75k 5ECs = 395k AMEX points from $20k spend

P.S. It’s $20k because the EC offer I’m referencing is 5x cards at $4k spend each. Without the EC cards, it’d be $10k spend total.

Final Warning: Is there a risk? Yes. Did I do many of these? Yes. What’s my AMEX point balance? 0.

⏳️ FINAL BOARDING CALL - TIME-SENSITIVE
Up To 175k Hilton Honors SUBs

Image credit: American Express

With the SLH partnership fully live, Hilton’s value has slightly increased. Several SLH sweet-spot redemptions make building a sizable Hilton point balance worth it. If you were considering Hilton cards, now’s a great time with these increased SUBS, especially the business card.

Offer details as follows:

Hilton Honors Business

  • 175k points after $8k spend in first 6 months

  • Annual fee: $195

Hilton Honors Aspire

  • 175k points + 1 FNC after $6k spend in first 6 months

  • Annual fee: $550

Hilton Honors Surpass

  • 165k points after $3k spend in first 6 months

  • Annual fee: $150

Hilton Honors

Not the most spectacular card, but it will make sense to some for one important reason that I’ve highlighted in the screenshot above.

Offer details:

  • 40k points after $3k spend in first 90 days

  • Annual fee: $99

For all other people, it probably doesn’t make sense to give up a 5/24 slot for this.

Image credit: Avianca lifemiles

This is a targeted offer so make sure to check the bonus given to you. I only have 150%.

You’re able to buy up to 200k miles per account per calendar year (before bonuses) and, with the 200% bonus, you’d be acquiring them at 1.1 cents each.

As a floor, you can redeem lifemiles at approximately 1.4 cents quite easily.

If you already have flights in mind, look up the cash rates for those routes and compare the cost of acquiring the miles for that amount of points. You can consider this promotion to be a flat % discount on cash rates.

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AMEX (login at americanexpress.com to check)

  • Marriott Bonvoy: $100 credit after $500+ spend | U.S. and U.S. territories, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean b/w 09/24 to 11/23 | expires 11/23

  • Earn on Advertising Purchases: 5% off up to $45 | expires 02/12

Chase (login at chase.com to check)

  • Costco Wholesale: $20 cash back | expires 09/30

  • The Luxury Collection: $50 back after $250+ in purchases | expires 10/01

  • Lululemon: 10% off up to $16 | expires 10/28

Other

  • Office Depot/Max: $15 off $300+ Mastercard gift cards | Limit 10 in-store | 09/22 - 09/28

🤡 MEME

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