Sentences with phrase «in unbonused»

At that ratio, $ 25,000 in unbonused spend on a new «Black» Bank of America Virgin Atlantic credit card would earn 191,250 Honors points, or 7.65 Honors points per dollar of unbonused spend.

That means the most expensive Ritz - Carlton property in the world requires just $ 23,333 in unbonused spend on the Starwood Preferred Guest American Express, or $ 18,667 in spend for stays of exactly 5 nights.

Not exact matches

Unbonused spend is even simpler, since by definition is has to be much cheaper than bonused spend to be worth engaging in.

Currently if you spend more than $ 120K in a year on a FlexPerks card the unbonused earning rate drops from 1 point per dollar to 1 point per every 2 dollars.

I generally know at the beginning of each month what my goals are in terms of both bonused and unbonused spend: I'm going to spend a certain amount of money at grocery stores, gas stations, drug stores, office supply stores, etc., and put a certain amount of bonused spend on certain cards.

Unbonused min spend is always justifiable towards dining in my mind.

For example, you could earn 1.5 points per dollar on a Freedom Unlimited card and transfer them to a Sapphire Reserve account to take advantage of the higher redemption value, but that would be identical to simply earning the points at 1 point per dollar via unbonused spend on the Sapphire Reserve card in the first place.

But in reality, a travel hacking practice that includes both unbonused spend and bonus spend would allow you to deploy your bonused spend towards cards like the Asiana Visa Signature, which earn bonus miles, and your cheaper unbonused spend towards flexible currencies like Starpoints.

If you need to top up your account, you'll get a better earning ratio transferring Starpoints in 20,000 - Starpoint increments and earning 5,000 bonus Miles & More miles than you will putting additional unbonused spend on their Barclaycard credit card.

Not great, but not bad for a category of unbonused spend that was previously impossible to generate points on in a cost effective manner outside of meeting a sign up bonus (spend that could be put elsewhere to get the bonus).