👋 Hi Reader,

Hope your weekend is off to an amazing start! Here are today's highlights:

• 🛬 20+ airport hacks to skip the lines
• 💺 Booking 4+ business class award seats
• 💵 New unlimited 1% brokerage bonus
• 📱 Free international data eSIMs
• 💸 Q2 rotating bonus categories for 5x points/5% back
• 💳 Best ever welcome offer on hotel biz card
• 🎂 Tons of birthday freebies and more!

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Chris

🛬 20+ Airport Hacks to Skip the Lines

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Want to learn how to skip security lines, breeze through immigration, and save time at the airport? We cover every strategy, including TSA PreCheck, Global Entry, and CLEAR – along with smart check-in tactics, must-have apps, and insider tricks to save time when you travel.

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🛫 Travel, Points & Miles

💺 How to Book 4+ Business Class Award Seats

If you have a family of 4 (like ours) or more, finding business-class award seats, especially for popular routes at peak travel times, can be quite the challenge. I love this Frequent Miler article that breaks down how to find reliable business class award availability when schedules open on British Airways, LATAM, Iberia and Japan Airlines.

💳 Best Ever Welcome Offer on Hotel Biz Card

​A business hotel card* has just shared their best-ever welcome offer of 200,000 points, which is worth at least $1,000 in value. Depending on the hotel you're looking at, this could be worth as many as 10 nights in a lower tier property or 3 or more in a higher tier one.

*For compliance reasons, we can’t include names of all cards/banks.

💸 Q2 Rotating Bonus Categories

There are a few select cards that offer 5% cash back/5x points on eligible combined spending in rotating bonus categories every quarter. Here are the Q2 categories:

• A Popular Bank*: Amazon and select streaming services (activate here).
• Discover It: Grocery stores and wholesale clubs (activate here).
• Citi Dividend: Grocery stores and travel booked through Citi Travel (activate here on 4/1).
• US Bank Cash+: 2 categories of your choice, including home utilities, electronics stores, sporting goods stores, cell phones, gyms/fitness centers, movie theaters, etc. (activate here).

*For compliance reasons, we can’t include names of all cards/banks.

🧳 Latest Card-Linked Offers for Travel

I found a bunch of travel-related card-link offers that might be useful for upcoming travels. Expiration dates are in parentheses.

• Marriott: 10% off on $100+ spend (3/31)
• Grand Hyatt​: $50 back on $250+ (4/15)
• Qatar: $300 back on $2,000+ (4/30)
• Emirates​: $150 back on $1,000+ (4/30)
• Mandarin Oriental​: $100 back on $500+ (5/6)
• SLS Hotels​: $100 back on $400+ (5/14)
• Caesar's Resorts​: $40 back on $200+ (6/30)
• Leading Hotels of the World: $200 back on $900+ (7/14)

And if you want to automate adding these card-linked offers so you don't have to do it yourself, try CardPointers Pro with 30% off here.

✈️ Up to 30k Aeroplan Points on Hotels & Car Rentals

Air Canada Aeroplan members can earn up to 30,000 points when they redeem points for hotel stays or car rentals booked through Air Canada. Register for the promo here and make the bookings before 4/13 for stays or rentals through 9/30.

💰 Points & Miles on Sale

I wouldn’t speculatively buy these unless you’re familiar with these programs or have a specific redemption in mind. That said, the Wyndham deal is pretty interesting if you're redeeming points towards a Vacasa Rental, where you can get up to 1.67¢ per point in value.

• Wyndham: 0.76-0.81¢ with a 60-70% bonus (4/15)
• Lifemiles: 1.27¢ with a 160% bonus (3/31)
• Qatar: 1.53¢ with a 50% bonus (3/25)
• Choice: 0.69¢ with a 50% bonus (4/8)
• Copa Airlines: 1.88¢ with a 50% bonus (4/18)

🏨 Wyndham + Hilton Timeshare Offers

I'm not a fan of timeshare presentations, but if you don't mind wasting some of your time, there are a few interesting offers right now:

• ​Wyndham: 3-night stay for $249, plus 60,000 bonus points.
• ​Hilton: 3-5 night stay from $149+, plus 15,000 HawaiianMiles.

🤑 Latest Deals

📱 Free International eSIM Data Plans

GigSky is offering free international data plans for Visa Infinite and Signature cardholders. If you're not sure if you have one of these, check your cards – I suspect many of you already do.

• Visa Infinite: Free 15-day plan with 3GB + 30% off all plans.
• Visa Signature: Free 15-day plan with 1GB + 30% off all plans.

And if you don’t have a visa card, you can still save 10% on most plans with the promo code FREQUENTMILER.

💵 Best Brokerage Bonus of 2025: 1% Unlimited Match

Last week I shared an uncapped 2% brokerage bonus from Robinhood on all transferred assets through 3/31. While 2% is more than 1%, you need to keep those assets at Robinhood for 5 years to get the full bonus. With SoFi, the holding period is only 9 months. For balances under $20,000, the E*Trade offer is even better.

• SoFi Invest: 1% unlimited match when you transfer your portfolio to a SoFi Active Invest account or IRA before 4/17. The minimum transfer amount is $20,000 with a 9-month hold period.
• E*TRADE: Earn up to a $10,000 cash bonus when you open a new eligible retirement account by 7/31 and make a qualifying deposit within 60 days. Must use the promo code RETIRE25.

🎂 Birthday Freebies

If you know me, you know I love spreadsheets, and I’m sure you'll love this birthday freebie spreadsheet too. It has a list of restaurants and stores that offer birthday goodies/deals, a lookup option to search for a specific store, and even a tracker to ensure your coupons don’t expire. Thanks for putting this together, Bonnie!

💬 Parting Thoughts

As always, thanks so much for reading! I’d love to hear your thoughts on today’s newsletter, and if you enjoyed it, please let me know why!

Chris