A quieter week for big changes, with Chase opening the Sapphire Reserve’s Edit credit to vacation homes next year, Capital One adding Copa as a transfer partner, and JetBlue raising its bag fees for the second time this year.
Cards and points
- From Jan 1, 2027, Chase’s The Edit adds more than 10,000 vacation homes, and the Sapphire Reserve‘s Edit credit (up to $250 a booking, $500 a year) works on them (my review).
- Capital One added Copa ConnectMiles as a transfer partner at 2:1.5 (1,000 miles become 750), with a 30% launch transfer bonus through Dec 1, 2026, a week after Citi added Copa at 1:1 (Frequent Miler).
- As always, my best credit card offers page is checked and updated every day, so it always shows the best offer on each card. The Card Finder quiz can help you quickly pick which card to get next.
My posts this week
- Bag Fees Are About to Go Up Again, and Your Suitcase Will Cost More Than a Credit Card: a first checked bag now costs $45 to $70 each way, how bag fees got here, and how an airline card (even on award tickets) makes them free.
Recent changes to the blog
I’ve been working hard on updating the site to make it more useful, and with that has come a lot of new pages and features, the kind I think many of you will find yourselves coming back to. They’re all kept current the same way the card reviews are.
New this week:
- Checked bag fees by airline, with what each airline charges and which cards get you a free bag.
And the ones from before:
- The Card Finder: the same set of questions I ask friends and family when they ask which card to get next.
- The best credit card offers right now, the 25 welcome offers I’d look at first, checked every day.
- Sweet spots by program for Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, IHG, Wyndham, and United, with more airlines coming soon.
- Award search tools compared: what each one is good at, what’s free, and which ones I actually use.
- Welcome offer history, so you can tell whether today’s bonus is a good one.
- A credits calendar showing when every card credit resets.
- A premium card calculator for whether an annual fee is worth it for you.
- Downgrades and retention offers for every card I review.
- Annual fee history, a devaluation timeline, and my minimum values for points and miles.
That’s the week. See you next Friday.
