If
you fly with a different airline every time you travel, the Chase Sapphire Preferred ® Card would be a smarter choice.
Not exact matches
At a time when
airlines were beginning to experiment
with baggage fees and were discussing mergers, raising ticket prices and generally making the
flying experience miserable, JetBlue was
different; passengers like me loved them for it.
ANA uses
different award charts when
flying their own metal versus
flying with an ANA partner like United
Airlines.
She was certainly
different from the other pilots who
flew to Anegada, usually eager pups hoping to work their way up the ladder to a job
with a commercial
airline.
Delta offers three
different credit card options (each of which has a business variation), and all of these cards offer solid deals if you
fly with Delta
Airlines.
If you prefer to
fly a
different airline, then you might get considerably more value
with another card.
Next option is to travel to Moncton and
fly out
with a few
different airlines such as westjet and Porter.
Often award prices are the same regardless of which
airline you
fly within the carrier's alliance or how many connections you make, so look around if you don't see award availability right away or consider accumulating miles
with a
different carrier in the same alliance if it has more a better award chart.
For that reason, these are almost always the best cards when you are just starting as they allow you to accumulate points that can be used to
fly with tons of
different airlines thanks to their
airline transfer partners.
With so many
different destinations, you're bound to
fly United as they are one of the «Big Three»
airlines within the United States.
A lot of
airlines have
different standards of Business Class cabin depending on which of their aircraft you're
flying and, if you happen to book on to an aircraft
with a poor product, that Business Class «deal» suddenly doesn't look so good.
The big thing to remember
with Alaska is that they offer
different redemption rates based on the
airline that you're
flying with.
The two are sometimes
different and you may need the partner confirmation number in order to make your seat assignments
with the
airline you'll be
flying on.
The ability to have a stopover (staying more than 24 hours after you land at your destination) and an open jaw (departing from a
different city than the one you
flew into) would have helped us out
with our trip covering Western Europe, as we used budget
airlines to get around Europe.
If you
fly a lot of
different airlines and travel internationally, consider the Citibank Prestige card instead,
with better perks and higher earning or the Citi Premier card.
Key Advice: Purchasing a membership to an
airline club includes access even when you
fly with a
different carrier.
They partner
with a ton of
different airlines so you can look into transferring your points to a an
airline that you think you might actually
fly on.
Keep in mind activity for
Flying Blue is
different than other
airlines; qualifying activity includes taking a flight
with a
Flying Blue partner for credit or using a co-branded credit card.
Chances are if you
fly very often on
different routes, you'll earn status
with some
airline or another but for regular hauls, you might want to consider making an exception to alliance funneling.
I played
with many
different permutations (including
flying with legendary Spirit
Airlines to FLL), but in the end the additional time and bag fees just didn't make sense.