The 4,440
ThankYou points balance is on my Mastercard (I guess the silver lining here is that I didn't put a whole lot of spending on it before the 10X got canned).
With LifeMiles often sold very cheaply I'm half - waiting for Avianca to devalue the program when I'm not paying attention and, even if that doesn't happen, I have better uses for
my ThankYou Points balance anyway.
Successfully applying for one of the first two cards mentioned above and then meeting the minimum spend requirement will see you boost
your ThankYou points balance quicker than you can boost it in any other way.
The spending category bonuses are the key to keeping
your ThankYou points balance ticking over and...
When you register for it,
your ThankYou point balance appears and you can select an amount to be applied to your purchase.
Not exact matches
The account offers some attractive perks, like interest of up to 0.10 percent — based on your
balance — 24/7 Citi Priority customer service,
ThankYou Reward
Points for banking activities and fee - free ATMs.
Bottom Line: The Citi
ThankYou ® Preferred Card offers an intro APR on purchases and
balance transfers and earns 2x
points for dining and entertainment and 1x everywhere else!
Though not a program we've covered previously, Lauren has a healthy
points balance with Citi's
ThankYou points program.
Though Citi's packed online shopping center can be very tempting, especially when you're carrying a high
point balance, using your
ThankYou points in redemption categories besides travel will get you a very low return on your spend.
When you're ready to purchase tickets, you just need to add your Citi
ThankYou card and you will see your available
points balance for payment.
The Citi
ThankYou Preferred card offers a fairly long 15 - month introductory period on
balance transfers, plus a pretty good
points - based rewards program once your
balance is paid off.
You can use Citi
ThankYou points to book flights on American Airlines and, in doing so, will get 1.6 c /
points out of your
balance.
This isn't a very big deal to me as I never used my
ThankYou points to boost my Hilton Honors
balance anyway but it does now leave Citi without a single hotel transfer partner.
It can be very easy to build up a Flight
Point balance quickly and earn effectively double
ThankYou points on all purchases.
Recently I've taken a look at look the transfer partners of the four major transferable loyalty currencies — Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi
ThankYou, American Express Membership Rewards and Starwood's Starpoints and, as a follow up to those articles, I'm now taking a look at the best ways to earn the four transferable loyalty currencies and hopefully giving you some idea of what you can do to earn more
points and to boost your
balances quickly and / or frequently.
You'll also earn a bonus 500
ThankYou points when 500 Flight Points get converted, reducing your Flight Point balance to
points when 500 Flight
Points get converted, reducing your Flight Point balance to
Points get converted, reducing your Flight
Point balance to 4,500.
Unfortunately Malaysia Airlines» Enrich program isn't an Amex transfer partner (in either the UK or the US) and neither is it a transfer partner for Starwood... so you'll either have to have an existing Malaysia Airlines Enrich
balance or a stash of US Citi
ThankYou points (which convert to Enrich at a 1:1 ratio) if you want to take advantage of this.
None of the major credit card currencies convert to Starpoints — which means that Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi
ThankYou points and Amex Membership Rewards are of no help if you're looking to build up a Starpoints
balance.
While I collect
ThankYou points for KrisFlyer miles others may find greater use in transferring their
balances over to Cathay Pacific or Thai....
You can also select one of the U.S. Rewards Program Transfer Partners (UR, Amex Membership Rewards, Citi
ThankYou, Starwood Preferred Guest) if you're looking to add
points to your airline mileage
balance.
I'm a hybrid user of
ThankYou points in that I have a 50:50 split in how I use my
balance (roughly speaking)-- I like to use my
points for transfers to partners and for reducing my outlay on American Airlines flights.
Citi
ThankYou ® Preferred offers
points in its
ThankYou Rewards program it also features 15 months of 0 % financing on both new purchases, with a 3 %
balance transfer fee.
It's sort of an invisible accounting system with a vague resemblance to the Flight
Points balance in the Citi
ThankYou Rewards program.
If you're low on Chase UR
points, Amex MR
points, or SPG
points, you could transfer Citi
ThankYou points to these airline loyalty programs to add to your overall mileage
balance.