When you receive
statement credits against a travel purchase on your Reserve card, you'll still accumulate 3x points for that spending.
Not exact matches
It's hard to make a case
against signing up for this card, it comes with a sign up bonus worth $ 500 in cash or
statement credit (using for
travel / gift cards doesn't make a lot of sense, just redeem for
statement credit and then make those
travel / gift card
purchases on the card instead) and you can also get $ 200 in
travel incidental
credits and only pay a $ 95 annual fee.
Membership Rewards can also be used for
statement credits against travel purchases at a rate of 1 cent = 1 Membership Rewards, so there is a floor
on the value.
But the cherry
on top is that when you redeem your points for a
statement credit against a
travel purchase you also get 10 % back to use for a future award.
3,500 Arrival Miles are worth $ 38.50 in
statement credits against travel purchases, thanks to the 10 % rebate
on travel redemptions.
You can then use those rewards to book
travel, or redeem them for
credit on your
statement against travel purchases.
The MBNA card earns 2 pts / dollar spent
on all
purchases and those points can be redeemed for
statement credits against previously
purchased travel.