Today, May 16, 2024, Frontier introduced some updates to the booking system. This has made the “basic fare” of GoWild tickets unbookable online. See the screenshot of what the new booking interface looks like. You can, however, book GoWild tickets at any other price but the “basic fare”. In other…
Uphold Debit Card: 2% and 4% Cashback
by SJSJ
April 20, 2026
As mentioned in an earlier post, I have been searching for a “fun” debit card to replace my existing ones. I recently reviewed the 1% and 3% debit cards from MetaMask (which are effectively 1% cards). It turns out that both Uphold debit cards are now working again in the…
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Frontier Brings Back Call Service for Customers
May 16, 2024Frontier, a budget airline, removed telephone call service in November of 2022 (CNBC) as it fully transitioned to a (lackluster) chat service. Now, over a year and a half later (to be precise, call centers have been operational since 1st of May 2024), Frontier has brought back its call service…
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Up to $200 Travel Credit on a DEBIT Card?
May 13, 2024Venti, a fintech company that gives APY on your cash holding in the form of travel credit, appears to be launching a debit card. I have written about Venti here but in short, I think their take is super interesting but I haven’t been a fan of how they have…
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Is this the Death of Yotta?
May 10, 20245/10/2024 Update: Roughly 10 days after this article was written, we Yotta has an email stating that effective immediately, Yotta has discontinued paying rewards on saving balances, paychecks, and card spend. This is most likely the final death blow to Yotta. If you still have balance on Yotta, maybe it…
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Is Venti Worth It? 9% APY on up to $25,000
April 23, 20244/23/2024 Update: Venti is now allowing users to redeem points for AirTags at a rate of 30 points for 1 AirTag and 85 points for 4 AirTags. Since 1 point is worth a dollar towards travel, you could view this as 4 AirTags in exchange for $85 worth of travel…
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Recently Frontier introduced UpFront Plus seats in the first two rows. It got a lot of mixed to negative comments from the travel space community (OMAAT, TPG). What is UpFront Plus? Until recently frontier had 4 premium (extra legroom) rows (first three and then one exit row seat). Recently frontier…
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Unbanned from Citi Bank. Back with Citi after 5 years!
April 6, 2024Almost 5 years ago I wrote “Citi Shutdown: Citi Closed All My Credit Cards“. At that time it was one of the earliest publically reported shutdown reasons for “too many recently opened accounts”. I had made two reinstatement requests (one of which was made directly to Citi while another was…
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3/28/2024 Update: I had filed a CFPB complaint and here I finally got a response. Fargo declined by request to make points available or send a cash equivalent check. But as you can see in the image below they gave me $300 as a “customer satisfaction credit”. I had about…
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I Evaded Capital One’s 1/6 “Rule” Twice in 2023
March 11, 2024Recently an article by Travel on Points was shared in various Travel in Points Telegram. The aforementioned article discusses how Capital One’s 1/6 rule isn’t so hard and fast now. I thought I had evaded it in the past but after looking at my spreadsheet I realized I had evaded…
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3/1/2024 Update: Yesterday, February 29, 2024, the death of CauseCard and PrideCard was announced. This also ends the tiny possibility of 0.85% earning DogeCard coming back. CauseCard and PrideCard will earn a 0% reward starting March 4, 2024, and these cards will be closed on March 31, 2024. See details…
