Meet Minimum Spends (And Rack Up The Miles) With Vanilla

If you’re always looking at different ways to meet minimum spends on credit cards, join the club. Amazon Payments, gift cards, and paying bills can only get you so far. Milevalue posted a nice, detailed description of Vanilla Reload cards recently. It’s a very clever and very effective way to rack up some huge miles. Read the full description here.

Another 1,000 United Airlines Miles

This one is limited to those who have a United MileagePlus Credit Card (Continental cards should work too). Click here to register your card and pick up another 1,000 easy miles.

500 Air Canada Miles

I posted Monday about how you can get 500 Delta Skymiles. If you prefer, you can pick up 500 Air Canada (Aeroplan) miles the same way here.

Another US Airways Credit Card

I constantly blabber about how much I love the US Airways credit card. An easy 40,000 miles after first use, you can “churn” it over and over, etc. 

But if you’re looking for another way to grab some US Airways miles, there’s also a Business version of the card here. Let me know your results with this one so I can report on possible churning of both cards.

1,000 United Airlines Miles In 5 Minutes

  1. Go to United.com
  2. Go to MileagePlus > Earn Award Miles
  3. Go to Gifts, flowers, wine, daily deals and more > Learn more
  4. Scroll down and go to the Thanks Again link
  5. Register for a new Thanks Again account. You’ll need to enroll a credit card
  6. When you’ve registered, log into “My Account” at Thanks Again
  7. Under your billing information, click the link that says “Click Here To Join Thanks Again Offers”
  8. There will be an offer for 1,000 miles if you sign up for Visa Offers
  9. You’ll need to enroll your phone to receive promotional text messages
  10. You get the miles in a few weeks. You can always opt out of the texts by replying “Stop”