JetBlue Premier 100K, Citi AAdvantage Globe 90K, Marriott Boundless 4x50K FNA, IHG Premier 185K, Hyatt 60K, plus delistings — every May 2026 card refresh in one place.
Updated August 9, 2026 — corrections: we re-checked every card in this article against the issuer's own page. Several of the increases reported below never happened, and this piece should not have published them. The United Explorer, United Quest, United Club Infinite and United Gateway offers are the same today as they were when this article ran, and our own records show they were the same two weeks after it ran — they were not raised. The Citi AAdvantage Globe was never at 90,000 miles. The Citi AAdvantage Platinum Select did not fall to 50,000. The World of Hyatt card did not move to 60,000. Three annual fees were wrong as well. Each section below now carries the figure on the issuer's page, with the withdrawn claim named so you can see what changed. The offers that did move, and have since expired, are noted in the August 1 update and left as published.
Updated August 8, 2026: The Marriott Bonvoy Business (Amex) section below was wrong. That card never moved to Free Night Awards. Amex's page shows a tiered points offer: 75,000 points after $6,000 in purchases in the first 6 months, plus an extra 50,000 after another $3,000 in that same 6 months, so 125,000 points total at $9,000 of spend. The "up to 5 Free Night Awards" figure came from our own notes rather than from Amex, and should not have been published. The section below is corrected.
Updated September 14, 2026: Chase's Boundless page now shows 3 Free Night Awards after $3,000 in 3 months, down from the 4 it showed on August 7. The Boundless figures in this log are as of the dates they carry.
Updated August 7, 2026: Chase's Boundless page now states the welcome offer as a flat 4 Free Night Awards after $3,000 in 3 months — there is no separate 4th-award spending tier, and the anniversary award's cap did not change. Both corrections are reflected in the Boundless section below.
Updated August 1, 2026: Three of the offers below have changed since this piece ran. IHG One Rewards Premier is back to 140,000 points after $3,000 in 3 months — the 185,000-point promo expired. IHG One Rewards Traveler is back to 80,000 points after $2,000 in 3 months — the 125,000-point promo expired. World of Hyatt Business moved the other way: it is now 70,000 points after $7,000 in 3 months, a bigger bonus than the 60,000 described below but with a higher spend requirement. The card-by-card deltas below are a record of the May 2026 refresh cycle and have been left as published.
TL;DR — what moved in the past two weeks:
- Some cards bumped welcome bonuses up — fewer than this article originally claimed. The ones that hold up: JetBlue Premier 80K → 100K + Priority Pass (since reduced to 90K), IHG Premier 140K → 185K and IHG Traveler 80K → 125K (both since expired), United Business and United Club Business to 110K + 2,000 PQP. The Citi AAdvantage Globe 90K and World of Hyatt 60K bullets were wrong and are withdrawn — see the August 9 corrections above.
- Two cards moved welcome bonuses down. JetBlue Plus 70K → 60K (since back to 70K) and JetBlue Business 60K → 50K with spend doubled (still 50K). The Citi AAdvantage Platinum Select bullet was wrong and is withdrawn — that card is at 80,000 miles after $3,500 in 4 months.
- Marriott restructured one card from a point bonus to Free Night Awards: Bonvoy Boundless → 4 Free Night Awards (50K cap each). This bullet originally also listed Bonvoy Business as moving to 5 Free Night Awards, which was wrong. See the August 8 correction above.
- Three cards delisted or rebranded: Barclays AAdvantage Aviator Business is now closed to new applicants (AA is consolidating to Citi), Capital One Spark Miles for Business is no longer accepting new applicants, and Hawaiian Airlines World Elite is now an Atmos Rewards card following the Hawaiian/Alaska currency merger.
This article originally said every claim below was sourced to the issuer's own product page. For several cards that was not true, and the August 9 corrections above list them. Everything now stated as current was re-read from the issuer's page on 2026-08-08.
If you've been holding off on a welcome bonus app waiting for a refresh, several cards did move in this window. Fewer than this article first said, though: the corrections at the top list the increases we reported that turned out not to have happened. Read the card-by-card sections for what the issuer page actually says today. One hotel card, the Marriott Boundless, did restructure its bonus entirely, which changes the math on whether it's worth applying.
What follows is the complete, verified delta — sorted by direction (up / down / restructured / delisted) — with current spend requirements, key dates, and the new benefits where they apply. Our welcome bonus advisor tool is updated with all of these as of 2026-05-08, so if you'd rather just enter your spend and let it suggest, start there.
The JetBlue Premier had the most material refresh of any card this cycle. The welcome bonus moved from 80,000 to 100,000 TrueBlue points after $5,000 spend in 90 days, and JetBlue layered new benefits that previously weren't part of the card:
Annual fee is $499 as of our August 1, 2026 re-check — this piece originally reported $99, which was wrong. At $499 the Priority Pass, BlueHouse access and travel credit are the entire argument for the card, so run those benefits against what you would actually use before applying.
Correction (August 9, 2026): this section originally said Citi had pushed the AAdvantage Globe Mastercard to 90,000 AAdvantage miles after $5,000 of spend in 4 months, and called it the highest welcome bonus in the card's history. There is no support for that. We checked both places the offer is published — Citi's own page and American's application page for the card — and neither has ever shown 90,000 to us.
The offer is 60,000 AAdvantage miles after $4,000 in purchases in the first 3 months, with a $350 annual fee. That is the same figure this article listed as the card's pre-refresh standing offer, so the increase we described did not happen.
The card itself is unchanged and still worth a look if you fly American: the credits, the four Admirals Club passes and the year-2 companion certificate are all real. Our Citi AAdvantage Globe Mastercard review has the full breakdown and carries the same correction.
Correction (August 9, 2026): this section originally reported that Chase had refreshed the entire United lineup, with the Gateway going to 40,000, the Explorer to 80,000, the Quest to 100,000 plus 3,000 PQP and the Club Infinite to 110,000 plus 3,000 PQP. Four of those six rows were wrong, and three of the annual fees were wrong too.
The four consumer offers are the same today as they were when this article ran, and our own records from two weeks after publication show the same figures again. They were not raised. Here is what Chase's pages say:
| Card | Welcome offer | Annual fee |
|---|---|---|
| United Gateway | Up to 40,000 miles: 30,000 after $1,000 in 3 months, plus 10,000 for adding an authorized user | $0 |
| United Explorer | Up to 60,000 miles: 50,000 after $3,000 in 3 months, plus 10,000 for adding an authorized user | $0 the first year, then $150 |
| United Quest | Up to 70,000 miles + 500 PQP: 60,000 miles + 500 PQP after $4,000 in 3 months, plus 10,000 for adding an authorized user | $350 |
| United Club Infinite | Up to 90,000 miles: 80,000 after $5,000 in 3 months, plus 10,000 for adding an authorized user | $695 |
| United Business | Up to 110,000 miles + 2,000 PQP: 100,000 miles + 2,000 PQP after $5,000 in 3 months, plus 10,000 for adding an employee card | $150 |
| United Club Business | Up to 110,000 miles + 2,000 PQP: 100,000 miles + 2,000 PQP after $5,000 in 3 months, plus 10,000 for adding an employee card | $695 |
Two things worth pulling out of that table. The "up to" number on every one of these cards includes a bonus for adding another person to the account, not just for your own spending — the Gateway's 40,000, for instance, is 30,000 for hitting $1,000 of spend and 10,000 more only if you add an authorized user. Treating that as an increase to the welcome bonus, which is what this article did, overstates what you get for your own spending.
And the bonus Premier Qualifying Points are real on the two business cards only. PQP are what United counts toward elite status, so 2,000 of them is a genuine head start if you're chasing Silver or Gold. The Quest gives 500 with its welcome offer. The Club Infinite gives none — the 1,500 PQP on that card is an annual bonus you get for holding it, not part of signing up. If a co-brand credit card isn't an option for you right now, our United MileagePlus Debit Rewards Card piece covers a no-credit-check way to still earn United miles.
Heads-up on the United Business: our database had the annual fee listed at $0 from a prior period when the fee was waived. The current fee is $150, with a $0 intro for year 1 only. If you'd budgeted around $0, factor in the $150 from year 2.
The IHG portfolio had simultaneous bumps:
For context, IHG points historically redeem at roughly 0.5–0.7 cents per point at IHG-brand hotels (Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental, Six Senses, Regent, Kimpton, Vignette, etc.). That 125K promo worked out to roughly $625–$875 in hotel value at no annual fee — one of the strongest no-annual-fee hotel co-brand bonuses we had tracked. It has since expired: as of our August 1, 2026 re-check the Traveler is back to 80,000 points after $2,000 in 3 months, or roughly $400–$560 in hotel value, still with no annual fee.
Correction (August 9, 2026): this section originally said the World of Hyatt Credit Card had moved from 30,000 to 60,000 points, its first material increase in years. We have no source for 60,000 and should not have printed it.
Chase's page shows a two-part offer worth up to 75,000 points: 45,000 after you spend $5,000 in the first 3 months, then up to 30,000 more by earning a second point per dollar on purchases that normally earn one, on up to $15,000 of spend in the first 6 months. The annual fee is $95.
Hyatt points redeem strongly: cat-1 properties from 3,500 points/night, cat-4 standard from 12,000 points/night. Our Hyatt category chart breaks down where the best sweet spots sit across every tier. The full 75,000 covers six cat-4 nights or roughly two and a half cat-7 nights, though the second half of it takes $15,000 of spending to reach.
While the Premier got a major upgrade, the lower JetBlue cards moved the wrong way:
If you were planning to pair the Plus and Business with the Premier for the JetBlue stack, the Premier is now the standout — the other two are at their weaker offer levels and probably worth waiting for a swing back up.
Correction (August 9, 2026): this section originally reported the Platinum Select falling from 75,000 miles to 50,000 miles after $2,500 in 3 months. We have no source for that, and it belongs in the "down" column of this article only because of the same bad sweep behind the other corrections.
Citi's page shows 80,000 AAdvantage miles after $3,500 in purchases in the first 4 months, flagged as a limited-time offer. The annual fee is $99, waived the first year.
That makes the Platinum Select the stronger Citi personal AAdvantage offer right now, not the weaker one — the Globe is at 60,000 after $4,000 in 3 months with a $350 fee.
The Citi AAdvantage Business World Elite moved from 75,000 / $5,000 / 5 months to 65,000 AAdvantage miles after $4,000 in 4 months. Lower bonus, lower spend, shorter window — and net the bonus reduction outweighs the spend reduction.
Chase's page shows 70,000 bonus points after you spend $7,000 in the first 3 months, on a $199 annual fee. That is the offer to plan against.
Correction (August 9, 2026): this section originally described a May move from 80,000 points at $10,000 of spend down to 60,000 at $5,000. Those figures came from the same sweep behind the other corrections on this page and we have no source for them, so they are withdrawn rather than kept as history. What we can confirm is the current offer above.
Chase reformatted the Boundless welcome bonus from a raw point total to Free Night Awards, each award capped at a 50,000-point redemption level. This section originally said the Amex Bonvoy Business card made the same move. It did not.
Old bonus: 3 Free Night Awards (35K cap each) after $3,000 in 3 months. New bonus: 4 Free Night Awards (50K cap each) — all four after $3,000 in the first 3 months.
The 50K cap applies to the four welcome awards. The Free Night Award the card gives you every account anniversary is a separate benefit and is still capped at a 35,000-point redemption level. That ceiling did not move.
Correction (August 8, 2026): this section originally described the card as moving to "up to 5 Free Night Awards (50K cap each) — 3 FNAs after $6,000 in 6 months, plus 2 more after $9,000 total in 6 months." That was never Amex's offer, and we published it without a source behind it.
The welcome offer on Amex's page comes in two tiers, both paid in points:
Clear both tiers and you have 125,000 points for $9,000 of spend inside 6 months. The annual fee is $125.
The card does hand out Free Night Awards, which is likely where our mix-up started. You get one every year after your card renewal month, plus a second one if you spend $60,000 in a calendar year. Those awards cover a night priced up to 35,000 points rather than 50,000, and they are ongoing perks of holding the card rather than any part of the signup bonus.
Barclays has stopped accepting new applications for the AAdvantage Aviator Business. American Airlines is consolidating its co-brand portfolio under Citi, and the Barclays personal card (Aviator Red) is in the same wind-down (no public application page since late 2025). Existing cardholders keep their accounts open; no new sign-ups.
If you were planning to apply for the Aviator Business, your replacement option is the Citi AAdvantage Business World Elite Mastercard (above — currently at 65K bonus / $4K spend / 4 months, recently reduced).
Capital One has discontinued Spark Miles for Business for new applicants. The current Cap One business card lineup is the Venture X Business, Venture Business, and VentureOne Business — the Spark family is being phased out. Existing Spark Miles cardholders are unaffected for now; no new sign-ups.
Following the Hawaiian Airlines / Alaska Airlines merger, the HawaiianMiles loyalty currency was retired and replaced with Atmos Rewards. If you have an open HawaiianMiles balance, it converted to Atmos at the merger close and has already been ported.
Correction (August 9, 2026): this section originally listed a welcome bonus of 80,000 Atmos Rewards points after $2,500 in 90 days, as though you could still apply. You cannot. The card has no product page at Barclays — the URL returns a 404 — and it does not appear anywhere in their current lineup, which does still list their other airline and business cards. We cannot confirm what the last welcome bonus on this card was, so we are not going to name a figure.
A few practical observations:
We've updated the welcome bonus advisor, the airline cards browser, and the hotel cards browser to reflect every change above. The purchase optimizer also now uses the corrected United Business annual fee ($150, not $0).
Cards were re-read from the issuer's own page on 2026-08-08, and every figure presented above as current comes from that pass. The original 2026-05-08 check claimed to use the sources below, but several of its numbers do not appear on those pages and never did — that is what the August 9 corrections withdraw. The original list of sources:
Editorial policy on this site is first-party sources only — we don't cite third-party credit-card review sites. If a number on this page disagrees with what a card review site published yesterday, the issuer page is what we follow, full stop. If the issuer page changes after publication, we re-verify and update — see the verification timestamps in our card data layer.
Issuers cycle bonuses on roughly 6-12 week windows. Most cards see 3-5 distinct welcome bonus offers per year. "All-time high" offers tend to recur once or twice annually if at all, so when one shows up (the IHG Premier at 185,000 points in this May 2026 cycle, since expired), the timing matters. This article also originally cited the Citi AAdvantage Globe at 90,000 as one of those all-time highs; that offer was never real, and the August 9 correction covers it.
American Airlines elected to consolidate the AAdvantage co-brand portfolio under Citi. Barclays remains a major issuer in other partnerships (JetBlue, Hawaiian/Atmos, Wyndham, AARP) — just not AA going forward. Existing Aviator cardholders are unaffected, but no new applications are being accepted.
The fee has been $150 for some time — what changed is that our card database had it incorrectly listed at $0 from a prior period when the fee was temporarily waived. We've corrected it. If you applied during the waiver period, your account terms didn't change; only new applicants pay the $150. Year-1 intro fee is $0.
The Brilliant (Amex, $650 fee) didn't change in this refresh cycle. Bonvoy Bevy (Amex, $250 fee) and Bonvoy Bold (Chase, $0 fee) also held steady. Only the Boundless and the Bonvoy Business restructured. For another top-tier hotel card, see our guide to the Ritz-Carlton credit card.
We don't predict issuer cycles, but historically bonuses at recent lows reset upward within 6-12 weeks. The JetBlue Plus has already swung back to 70,000 points after $1,000 in 90 days. The JetBlue Business is still at 50,000 after $4,000. Check the bonus tracker for current terms before you apply.
The site's bi-weekly card verification sweep catches changes within 2 weeks of the issuer page updating. If you sign in and turn on "bonus change" notifications in your profile, you'll get a push when a card you're tracking has a material welcome-bonus change.
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