Offer from Bank of America

I got an email from Bank of America Alaska Airlines credit card. While I signed up for it, I probably won't use it.

The offer is triple the miles (3X) on purchased made with the Alaska Airlines credit card on qualifying Home Improvement stores through June 30, 2014.

The purchases can be made at hardware, interior furnishing and garden supply stores.As I am renter, I don't really have a need for items from a Home Improvement stores. However, I signed up for the promotion anyways, because who knows what will occur in the next three months.

Did you get this offer?

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Look What I Got . . .

Back in September, I wrote about an offer from Bank of America and Alaska Airlines Credit Card.

The offer gave me a $15 gift card to my choice of store, if I used my credit card to pay for a monthly reoccurring bill. To complete the offer, I paid a portion of my cell phone bill in October. However, I forgot about the offer until earlier this week, when this letter arrived:

The letter contained an awkward letter and my $15 Starbuck's gift cards:

Here is a copy of the letter:

The letter is awkward for two reasons:

   1) Its not personalized. In the age of mail merge, your can do this easily

   2) The second paragraph is not appropriate. This letter should be a simply thank you, nothing
        else.

Overall, thank you Bank of America for keeping your promise!


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My Fear Becomes Reality

I wrote here about how my new Bank of America Alaska Airlines credit card was preregistered for Dining Rewards. In that post, I predicted that my preregistration would come with no or low sign-up bonus.

A few weeks ago, I received this letter from Alaska Dining Rewards welcoming me to the program:

The letter offers me "500 miles for spending $30 within one days 30 days of creating [my] profile and registering. 500 miles is better than nothing, so I should be happy. However, I'm not.

I strongly believe that this auto-registering after applying for a new card will continue. As I wrote previously, this auto-registration saves Dining Rewards money. They have less people who could qualify for increased sign-up bonus like the 1,500 United bonus miles offer.

I hate being right sometimes. And I hope that this is a outlier and not the "New Normal.

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Alaska Airlines Adds Passbook For Boarding Passes

Alaska Airlines announced in a tweet this morning that they have added the ability to store your boarding pass in Apple's Passbook to their mobile application options.

Thanks for your patience, Passbook is here!Check the App Store for our latest iPhone App update: bit.ly/1aE3ESB.
— Alaska Airlines (@AlaskaAir) May 30, 2013

I love using Passbook to store my United boarding passes (and my Starbucks card of course) because it brings the boarding pass to the lock screen. This makes it much easier when you are boarding to just whip out your phone and bring up the boarding pass without even unlocking the phone. That way you aren't holding up the line trying to close down all of your apps to just get to your boarding pass!

Hope more airlines (**cough cough** US Airways **cough cough**) will start to add this soon....or at least for US once they integrate to AA.

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