In most cases, these bonuses allow you to
earn more miles per dollar spent by using your Starwood card than you could by using that airline's own co-branded product.
Between Amex, Chase, Citi and Starwood all of the Arrival Premier's transfer partners are covered and each of these offers cards that will
earn you more miles per dollar than the Barclays Arrival Premier card.
Click through to Best Buy or Barnes & Noble through the airline and you can
earn more miles per dollar spent and save money on the purchases through special deals.
Elite members
earn more miles per dollar spent based on their status.
Elite members
earn more miles per dollar spent based on their status.
The Delta Reserve card
earns more miles per $ 1 spent (1.5 miles for the Reserve card versus 1.4 miles for the Platinum card), but it also has a higher annual fee of $ 450.
Not exact matches
Leading this smaller pack was Delta Air Lines (DAL), which was able to fill its planes
more efficiently than its rivals, dominate the profitable New York market, and
earn more dollars
per passenger
mile than even Southwest.
Earn 10
miles per dollar on hotels when you pay with your VentureOne card at hotels.com/venture; learn
more at hotels.com / venture
The faster speeds and the lower cost, 7 - cents
per kilowatt - hour versus $ 2.50
per gallon for diesel, means «you're
earning 50 - percent
more per mile than in a diesel truck.»
The main differences between the two cards are the rewards rate (1.5 points
per $ 1 with the Black, 1 point
per $ 1 with the White) and the opportunities to
earn bonus
miles (generally, you can
earn more bonus
miles with the Black than with the White).
As a general rule, The Points Guy suggests that you should make sure you're
earning the equivalent of 1 cent or
more per mile in value from your airline
miles.
Unlike many other co-branded airline cards, you can actually
earn more than 1X
mile per dollar spent on all other purchases: the United MileagePlus ® Club Card allows you to
earn 1.5 X
miles per dollar spent.
The
Miles &
More World Elite MasterCard from Barclaycard
earns two
miles per dollar spent on airfare directly with Lufthansa and other
Miles &
More airline partners.
That amount is multiplied by the number of
miles or points
earned per dollar spent on everyday purchases to account for cards that
earn more than one
mile per dollar spent.
If you're not too keen on Chase's travel partners and would prefer to
earn more than one
mile per dollar on all of your spending, you can always consider getting the Barclaycard Arrival Plus ® World Elite Mastercard ® instead.
If you're interested in a simple all - in - one travel credit card, the Barclaycard Arrival Plus ® World Elite Mastercard ®
earns 2x
miles per dollar on all purchases that can be redeemed for travel statement credits starting at 10,000
miles for $ 100 toward all or a portion of eligible travel purchases of a $ 100 or
more made in the last 120 days.
Certain cardholders or elite status members can
earn even
more than 500
miles per rental.
But if your spending follows certain patterns, you could
earn more faster with a rewards credit card that offers
more than 1.5 X
miles per dollar.
With Starwood's generous 25 % transfer bonus, you can often
earn more miles by using the SPG credit card and transferring the points to your favorite airline than you would by using an airline co-branded credit card that
earns 1x point
per dollar and gives you points directly to your airline's mileage program.
At the most basic calculation of $ 0.01
per mile, the points
earned on the Premier Rewards Gold Card from American Express are over $ 200
more valuable.
Earn 2 award
miles per $ 1 spent on ticket purchases directly from
Miles &
More integrated airline partners and 1 award
mile per $ 1 on all other purchases.
That amount is multiplied by the number of
miles or points
earned per dollar spent on everyday purchases to account for cards that
earn more than one
mile per dollar spent.
This card also
earns 50 %
more on everyday purchases than the United MileagePlus ® Explorer Card, which means you can
earn 1.5 X
miles per dollar on all purchases (except United ticket purchases, which
earn 2X
miles per dollar).
The partnering car rental companies occasionally have promotions in which you can
earn even
more miles per rental.
Book directly through the
Miles &
More hotel booking portal to earn at least 1,000 miles per night (and often a lot mo
More hotel booking portal to
earn at least 1,000
miles per night (and often a lot
moremore!)
However, the ability to
earn over 30,000 elite qualifying
miles and 100,000 redeemable award
miles (
per person) through Alaska Mileage Plan made it seem
more reasonable and are worth, in my view, about $ 4,000 total.
For donations of $ 25 or
more, you will
earn 10 frequent flyer
miles per dollar donated.
Normally
Miles &
More business credit cards
earn 1
mile per Euro spent, but with the promotion you will
earn 2
miles per Euro of purchases.
Utilizing United Shopping is an easy way to
earn an extra
mile or
more per dollar spent on most of the purchases you've already made online.
Normally the
Miles &
More credit card
earns 0.5
miles per Euro spent on everyday purchases, but no you will
earn 1
miles per Euro in spending.
Given that you can
earn the welcome bonus and
miles for free with monthly deposits and using the account 5 times
per month it's a great way to
earn extra
Miles &
More miles.
Earn 10
miles per dollar on hotels when you pay with your VentureOne card at hotels.com/venture; learn
more at hotels.com / venture
Best Western Ride Rewards members
earn 250
miles per stay and can choose from a selection of airline partners including American Airlines ®, Delta Air Lines ®, Northwest Airlines ® and
more.
Earn 10
miles per dollar on hotels when you pay with your Venture card at hotels.com/venture; learn
more at hotels.com / venture
With a value of a little
more than 1 cent
per mile for most flights, you'd need to
earn at least 9,500
miles a year or spend about $ 396 a month on Delta purchases to offset this fee — a target that should be easy for business travelers to hit.
At the most basic calculation of $ 0.01
per mile, the points
earned on the Premier Rewards Gold Card from American Express are over $ 200
more valuable.
Rent a vehicle with Avis, Budget, Hertz, and National Car Rental and
earn 50
miles per rental day up to four days or 500
miles on rentals of five days or
more
You're in great shape if you have a rewards -
earning credit card that offers
more than 1
mile / point
per dollar at drugstores.
Because unlike most airline credit cards that only offer 1
mile per dollar spent, you can effectively
earn 25 %
more with this card — by taking advantage of the 5,000 bonus Starpoints whenever you transfer 20,000 points to an airline transfer partner.
Some shows could
earn more than 2,000
miles per ticket.
Typically you'd
earn 500
miles per stay, but through June 30 you'll get between 1,000 and 1,500
Miles &
More miles.
Miles &
More members
earn 500 award
miles per stay on Corporate, Package and Sell Rate of the Day rates, excluding some discounted packages.
MileagePlus members
earn 50
miles each day on all qualifying paid rentals of one to four days, or 500
miles per rental for qualifying rentals of five or
more days, on car rentals with Dollar and Thrifty.
For
more generic travel rewards, including upgrades, you might consider the Capital One Venture Rewards (Visa Signature) card which
earns two
miles per dollar spent, on top of a 10,000 -
mile sign up bonus after the first $ 1,000 spent.
I mentioned a couple months ago that United was still running their promotion with Foursquare where you get 50
miles per airport check - in, limited to one
per day.Well, here we are a couple months... [Read
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You might be able to
earn 10
miles per dollar or
more at certain stores but these bonus rates may only hang around for a day or so, so try to monitor your stores as much as you can.
To collect even
more miles, use a card like the Chase Ink Business Cash Card that
earns five points
per dollar spent at office supply stores, where you can purchase Airbnb gift cards.
On both airlines passengers will
earn a minimum of 1
mile towards elite qualification
per mile flown irrespective of the fare purchased and those flying in the premium cabins will
earn even
more:
Yes, the Suntrust Delta debit card
earns 1
mile per $ 1 and includes tax payments, but I don't care to
earn any
more Skypesos and don't have large tax payments.
Interestingly, if you work out the math on a «cost
per redeemable
mile earned» basis (or a cost
per elite qualifying
mile earned basis) the Shanghai fare is marginally better value than the Bangkok fare despite being considerably
more expensive.