Transfer bonus to my favorite airline program

Good morning from Colombo, Sri Lanka! 🇱🇰

I’m enjoying my second visit to this lovely country, booked entirely on points. And speaking of points, I’ve got some epic deals to tell you about today:

• 🏨 Earn 30,000 bonus Hyatt points in the U.S.

• 💳 New Delta card offers (up to 125,000 SkyMiles)

• ✈️ 30% transfer bonus to my favorite airline program

🏨 Earn 30,000 bonus Hyatt points in the U.S.

World of Hyatt is putting us through quite the emotional rollercoaster lately…

On the one hand, they devalued their award chart, sending the travel world into a panic.

On the other hand, they have been dropping some tasty promos, including a new one to earn bonus points on stays in North America.

Here’s the deal:

Until the end of July, you can earn 3,000 bonus points per 3-night (or longer) stay in the U.S., Canada, Caribbean, and Latin America at the following two brands:

• Hyatt Place

• Hyatt Select

You need to register for the offer and complete any stays by July 31 to be eligible.

The sweet spot here is a stay of exactly three nights, which will yield an extra 1,000 bonus points per night.

And given these are two budget brands, that’s quite a nice chunk of change.

For example, when I lived in Toronto, I’d stay at this Hyatt Place when visiting Niagara Falls (it can be pretty cheap on certain nights):

When it comes to Hyatt Select, this promo gets a little weirder.

There are currently only two or three properties that are even open under this brand, like this one at St. Louis Airport:

But then again, why would you need a 3-night stay at an airport hotel?

Anyway, Hyatt Place is definitely the brand to focus on here.

You can rack up a total of 30,000 points from this promotion, though it’d be difficult to max out.

But even if you only rack up 3,000 bonus points from one stay, that’s already enough to get a free night somewhere else.

For example, my favorite Hyatt hotel in the world (the Alila Solo in Central Java, Indonesia) costs as few as 3,000 points per night.

So by staying three nights at a Hyatt Place in North America, I can get one free night at this excellent hotel.

Buy 3, get one free sounds pretty good to me! 😉

Anyway, make sure you register for this offer before completing any stays.

💳 New Delta card offers (up to 125,000 SkyMiles)

I’ve got good news for you Delta fans in the room:

The massive suite of Delta co-branded cards just dropped a bunch of elevated welcome offers, some of them up to 125,000 Delta SkyMiles.

In the past, I would’ve felt pretty meh about these offers…

But lately, Delta has had some amazing deals using their own miles, including flights between the U.S. and Europe for as few as around 20,000-25,000 miles round-trip. 👇

Plus, Delta’s cards are actually kind of… awesome.

For example, this mid-tier card (which I signed up for last year) is offering up to 100,000 SkyMiles after completing qualifying purchases.

It does have a (reasonable) annual fee, but you do get a lot for it:

• A bunch of credits (dining, hotels, and more)

• Free checked bags when flying with Delta

• 2,500 MQDs per year

• 15% discount on award flights using SkyMiles

It’s actually a pretty solid value proposition…

As I said, I signed up for the card last year.

And after just 3 months of holding it, I also got an upgrade offer to the higher-tier version, which gave me another mini welcome bonus without another annual fee.

Delta also still has some fantastic sweet spots, including with partner airlines.

For example, I used 80,000 SkyMiles last year to fly KLM’s business class suites for 18 hours from Bali to Amsterdam, which was an amazing deal:

Anyway, even the lower-tier card and business cards have elevated offers – so these are all worth checking out for any Delta loyalists out there.

✈️ 30% transfer bonus to my favorite airline program

I love Avios… and I love transfer bonuses. So I REALLY love transfer bonuses to Avios.

And that’s what we’ve got, yet again, with the latest 30% bonus from ThankYou points to Qatar Airways Avios through the end of June.

This bonus is being offered from Qatar rather than from ThankYou points – so you won’t see it advertised on the bank website.

Check out this page for more info if you’re interested.

Anywho…

Once you’ve got the 30% bonus Qatar Avios, you can freely transfer them from Qatar to any of the following airlines:

• British Airways

• Finnair

• Iberia

• Aer Lingus

• Vueling

• LoganAir

In other words, this 30% bonus is more powerful than it sounds. 🔥

For example, you can fly Iberia’s lie-flat business class from the U.S. to Spain for just 40,500 Avios:

With this deal, you could:

• Transfer 31,000 ThankYou points to Qatar

• Get a 30% bonus

• Transfer the resulting Avios from Qatar to Iberia

• Book business class to Europe

That’s one of the lowest possible redemption rates for lie-flat business class to Europe, folks…

And if flying domestically in the U.S. is more your thing, Qatar is actually a pretty solid program for booking flights on American Airlines, especially with this 30% bonus.

Flights like these between Charlotte and New York City will run just 9,500 Qatar Avios, or 7,300 ThankYou points before the bonus.

So here’s the bottom line:

If you’ve got ThankYou points lying around, this is a great chance to get 30% more points in a super valuable and super flexible program.

Merry Christmas in June, friends. 🎄

That’s gonna do it for this Monday, my friends. I hope you enjoyed these three EXCELLENT deals.

See you tomorrow for more nitty-gritty redemption talk. 🤘

Farewell,

6.9271° N, 79.8612° E.

With contributions by Sam Anthony and Katie Begnoche.