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It depends on your travel habits. Does your home airport dictate one airline over the other? No reason to get a Delta CC if Delta doesn't fly out of your home airport. Also, do you fly during the course of a year? If so, is there a carrier you favor?
I do know that currently American Airlines has a pretty sweet 40K mile sign on bonus.
Capital One is good if you travel internationally because they don't charge you any extra fees. FWIW, Capital One is also at the bottom of consumer satisfaction polls for customer service among credit cards. The Venture Card and Chase's Sapphire Card are basically like the cash back cards, except you HAVE to use your bonus on travel. If I were you I would get a cash back card (instead of miles) that way you can decide if you want to spend the extra money on a flight or anything else. For instance, with the Venture card you would have to spend $10,000 to get 20,000 miles, or a $200 airfare.
Has anyone seen the commerical for Venture Card Capital One.
Has anyone NOT seen those commercials? It seems like they are on almost every commercial break. They were kind of funny two years ago when they started with the whole barbarian charging thing but its gotten old. I wish they'd come up with another theme.
I do know that currently American Airlines has a pretty sweet 40K mile sign on bonus.
Actually, if you spend $4k within 6 months, you get 75,000 miles with the AA card. $4k is chump change when you travel for business AND put all your expenses on the card! This offer is good until Feb 28th and totally worth applying for if AA is in your airport!
75,000 miles when you spend $4,000 in the first 6 months. No annual fee for the first year, $75-$85 thereafter depending on Business vs Personal.
Some tips:
1) You can apply for both personal and business cards
2) Its possible to apply for two personal cards, but you need to submit both applications at the same time. This is risky, but people have been known to get two cards approved. Just make sure you can meet the spend requirements.
3) It takes about a week to get your card
4) Miles will post a couple days after the statement in which you meet your $4,000 spend.
Change your scenery just by changing your card. (http://creditcards.citicards.com/usc/Travel/AA/Multi/Nov10/Triple/75k/ver2/default.htm?ProspectID=54ED1667C6AB47F0996CC4CD1E0 9BF15&promocode=travel2&sc=4XKBP9N0 - broken link)
I personally have the Delta Amex, since I fly Delta 90% of the time. Delta had a special this December as well, where they gave you 45,000 miles with your first purchase. That could get you a round trip to many places, easily. Our Turks and Caicos trip was around that much, and my NYC trip was only 22,000 miles!
There are a ton of mileage deals out there, don't just pick a card and fill out the application. Do your research and you will be nicely rewarded. When I opened my Delta Amex last year, I got 25,000 miles with my first purchase, and an additional 25,000 after spending $4k in 6 months. That was the promotion then, there's a different one now.
British Airways has some sweet deals right now as well, I believe with Visa.
Im not sure but thought Southwest had a bonus of 30,000 miles on a new card, but then United and Frontier all offer the same. But then they all go through the same bank: Chase.
I've done the Citi Card American Airlines credit card offer a few times. I close it after a year, then wait a year and get another one. I've done it three times. Hasn't damaged my credit; it's still in the 760s and has stayed there consistently even before the Citi Card. It will probably go up because of our recent home purchase after about a year having it on our credit report.
I have AMEX Blue Cash and it's nice because you get 5% cash back after spending $6,500 in a year in gas, groceries and drug stores and 1.25% on everything else. With the money from cash back you could probably book your flight to wherever you want instead of worrying about using your miles to a particular airline, hotel, etc.
Im not sure but thought Southwest had a bonus of 30,000 miles on a new card, but then United and Frontier all offer the same. But then they all go through the same bank: Chase.
We just received our Rapid Rewards Visa and received two free RT flights for using it.
I would go with the airline that has most departures from your home airport. For example, in Atlanta it would be Delta, Charlotte USAirways and so on. That way you have more opportunities to use those miles.
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