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If you
are a person who needs to travel often for
business or personal reasons, you would probably
benefit from using a
credit card
with frequent flyer benefits. Many airlines are
currently offering their own credit cards
to help travelers earn money towards travel
tickets. Additionally, major credit card
companies often have rewards programs
in the form of “frequent flyer miles”, or
discounts on flight packages, and sometimes even a
buy one, get one offer for flight tickets.
Chase Visa offers a frequent flyer mile credit
card called “The Value Miles™ Platinum Visa®
Card. You can select your own travel dates and
fly anywhere within the United States, to the
Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Mexico or South America.
Whenever you use this credit card to make a
purchase, you earn a “value mile” for every dollar
you spend. When you have accumulated 24,000
miles, you earn an airline ticket good for a
flight anywhere within the continental United
States. You’ll also love the fact that there are
never any “blackout dates”, meaning you can travel
whenever you want to. Some frequent flyer credit
card companies blackout the most popular travel
dates (holidays, spring break, etc) so that you
are not able to use your flyer miles during peak
travel periods. You also get to enjoy the typical
benefits of a Platinum card- including travel
insurance options, travel assistance and easy
reporting of a lost card. There is no annual fee
to carry this credit card, and an introductory
offer of 0% on purchases.
CitiCards also offers a popular frequent flyer
card, called the Citi PremierPass® Card Elite.
With this frequent flyer card, you earn a
“flightpoint” for every mile you are flying when
you purchase your ticket using your Citi credit
card. Additionally, if you buy a plane ticket for
someone else, you can actually earn “flightpoints”
for every mile that person travels as well! Like
most rewards cards,
you’ll earn a point for spending. This card
offers a purchase point for every other dollar
spent on the card, and two points for every dollar
spent at drugstores, supermarkets and gas
stations. It would be beneficial for you to use
this card as your daily spending card, paying the
balance off at the end of each month, in order to
build up your flyer miles. When you first open an
account with CitiCard PremierPass® Card Elite, you
will receive 15,000 bonus points when you make a
purchase within the first sixty days of opening
the account.
The Miles Card from Discover®
provides new accounts with 5000 miles after the
first purchase is made using the card. As with
most cards, you earn one mile for every $1
purchased on the card, so to get the most benefits
from the card you’ll want to use your card for
your every day purchases. Of course, with the
Miles Card ® you don’t have to redeem your rewards
by purchasing a flight. You can also select from
cash back
bonuses or gifts. There are no blackout dates
with this credit card’s frequent flyer miles, and
you can choose any seat on any airline. Best of
all, this card features a 0% introductory rate for
the first year on both new purchases and balance
transfers, so while you are earning points and
miles, you can also pay off old balances interest
free.
Many other credit cards offering frequent flyer
miles exist. The largest flyer rewards program,
and the first company to offer frequent flyer
miles, was sponsored by American Airlines. They
call the program Aadvantage. The miles that are
accumulated using this program can be used to buy
airline tickets, obtain discounted or free car
rentals, hotel visits, and upgrade your service
class for your flight.
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