Overlooked 5% Card, Rakuten Visa Dead, and Return of the Qantas A380

Is This The Most Overlooked 5% Earner & How To Do It Right – Miles to Memories

I think U.S. Bank as an issuer is generally overlooked. This offer more capacity than the Chase and Discover quarterly rotating cards, and more flexibility. Downside is that most of the categories won’t give you much spend, at least not for the normal person.

Hot tip at the end.

RIP Rakuten Visa – Frequent Miler

This was a popular card for some who love shopping portals (not I). Crazy they aren’t even going to replace it with anything.

Qantas A380 Returns to Sydney-Los Angeles Route – Travel Codex

As the only Qantas aircraft remaining with first class installed, this is welcome news. Now…maybe they will release more seats? One can hope?

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