Amex Platinum's $600 Credit Just Got Harder to Use - Plus Two Bonuses Expiring This Weekend

Happy Sunday - this was a week that gave with one hand and took with the other.

Two Citi bonuses expire today - and Capital One's 30% Virgin Atlantic transfer bonus is live right now alongside Alaska's best-ever card offer at 100K points. If you've been sitting on Citi ThankYou points or eyeing that Alaska card, this is the window.

The full rundown on every expiring deadline, the Virgin Atlantic bonus, and the Emirates Dubai promo is in Thursday's edition. Don't let Saturday's deadlines slip by while you're reading this on Sunday morning.

American Express has officially confirmed that starting January 1, 2027, the Amex Platinum's $600 Fine Hotels + Resorts credit will require a two-night minimum stay. That's a meaningful shift - plenty of cardholders have been using single-night bookings to capture the credit on shorter trips or positioning nights.

The practical impact depends entirely on how you've been using this benefit. If one-night FHR stays were part of your regular playbook, you've got until the end of 2026 to book under the current rules - and the clock is running. For everyone else, this is a good moment to reassess whether the $695 annual fee math still holds.

This kind of quiet restriction - confirmed officially but easy to miss - is exactly the type of thing that catches people off guard at renewal. Worth knowing now rather than in February.

The World of Hyatt Business Card just bumped its welcome bonus to 70,000 points, and Tuesday's edition stacks that with the Citi 35% Qatar bonus - both worth acting on before they disappear. There's also a breakdown of IHG's best sweet spots if you've got 200K points burning a hole in your account.

Citi's 35% Qatar Avios transfer bonus has a hard deadline - and Monday's edition makes a compelling case that hotel cards are quietly beating airline cards for passive value right now. There's also a PayRewards trick worth knowing if you're a business spender.

That's the week. Go book something.

- Jack