Best credit card for airline tickets??

[momtofour]

Looking for opinions on what fellow members think is the best credit card for acquiring airline tickets. I presently have a Bank One Visa. I need 24,000 points to get one free ticket. Typically, one dollar equals one point. I feel there must be something better out there! Any ideas!!!

 

[safetymom]

Find one that gives you miles in the frequent flyer program you use most often. That is usually the best way to get a lot of miles since they usually give more miles.

 

[ceecee]

We have the USAirways card and it is 20,000. We have enough miles for three tickets, but they were booked for those type of seats and ended up having to buy tickets anyways. You really have to call ahead (I waited until April to call for our Sept trip...too late). The annual fee is $50.00.

 

[ceecee]

We have the USAirways card and it is 20,000. We have enough miles for three tickets, but they were booked for those type of seats and ended up having to buy tickets anyways. You really have to call ahead (I waited until April to call for our Sept trip...too late). The annual fee is $50.00.

 

[crazywig]

can you fly southwest? it is easy and quick to earn a free ticket, there are very few blackout dates as well. as long as there is a seat on the plane, you can book it with your 'reward ticket' and do it online!

it takes $19,200 to earn a ticket ($1200 earns you 1 'point' you need 16 points for a ticket. you also earn points flying and thru partners)


we charge literally everything except the mortgage and car on it and are racking up the free tickets.

http://www.southwest.com/rapid_rewards/

 

[Chesire]

I would caution against the Chase one ... we used it for 18 months straight, had well over the amount for 2 round trip tickets to MCO. When we tried to arrange for tickets, we were given the run-around for 2 months, finally we were told the credit card miles could not be used for MCO (too popular a destination) and the only airport they would allow us to fly out of was 5 hours away!
After an hour talking to a few superviors, I canceled my account and will have nothing to do with Chase.
What made me even more upset was that I specifally asked about MCO and our airport when I opened the account. We now use a Disney Visa and have never had a problem.

 

[lkohawaii]

finally we were told the credit card miles could not be used for MCO (too popular a destination)

Anyone have this experience with Bank One or United's Card? I'm saving my miles just to go to MCO by the time we get enough we will have had our card for 4 years. Would hate to have waited so long only to find out that they won't let us go to MCO.

 

[tamu91]

I have had several airline cards in the past and SWA is by far the easiest and you can fly on just about any date you need even with only a minimal notice, i.e. one day
And I believe when you sign up, they give you upto 4 credits (depending on which card you choose) so you only have to earn additional 12 credits in 12 months, very do-able.
Even easier if you actually fly SWA during the year. The only downside is the credits expire

 

[larry_poppins]

I don't know what the Chase miles card is but I do know that the best mileage Visa card is the one that is connected to the airline you fly the most.

I have had the Mileage Plus (United) Visa for YEARS! I have flown to Orlando many times on it. I do request my seats far in advance. I have never had trouble getting rewards.

1. I use Mileage Plus Visa for everything
2. I switched to Sprint for miles
3. I eat at restaurants in the Mileage Plus Dining plan and receive 10 miles per dollar spent.
4. I earn miles by shopping at Vons

I get a lot of miles! I am saving them to fly to Tokyo Disney again for free.

Larry

 

[stressedmom]

Try frequentflier.com - they list different credit card options.

 

[safetymom]

A great website for maximizing your frequent flyer miles is
www.flyertalk.com

You will find all sorts of great information on this site.

 

[NancyIL]

The Starwood American Express Card is great for airline miles or for stays at Starwood hotels (Westin, Sheraton, W, Four Points, etc.). You earn 1 Starpoint per dollar spent, and the points can be exchanged on a 1:1 basis with a number of airlines. When you transfer 20,000 points to an airline, Starwood adds 5,000 bonus miles. There is no annual fee the first year and a $30 annual fee thereafter. http://www66.americanexpress.com/ca...from=0&mgmID=undefined&request_type=undefined

Here is a helpful article from www.webflyer.com: http://www.webflyer.com/blog/posts.php?entry=1603

 

[pokeysmom]

we have a cash rewards card thru bank one, for every $100 we spend we earn $1, we dont have any annual fee all I do is when we spend $10000 I call and get the cash and use that towards vacations.

 

[goin2disneyagain]

I use the Delta Skymiles American Express credit card. They offer a lot of promotions for extra miles. They have one going right now.

They offer double miles for all grocery store, gas station, Red Lobster/Olive Garden, post office, and home improvement store purchases.

 

[fac]

I use citibank air mile card. I didn't apply the card, they sent the card to me a few years ago.
I get 1 air mile for every $15 I spent. The nice features are that

a. they (initially) did not have annual fee
b. no black out date as long as I book 21 days in advance
c. I will be charged by the actual distance 2 cities. (say my recent trip to disney, I need approximately 1700 air miles per ticket).

I had used it for 2 trips to disney and never have any problems in getting tickets. I used to think that it is good until I plan a trip to Vegas which requires approximately 4000 air miles

Note that in the case of 1700 air miles for disney, I need to spend about $25500 for one ticket, if I were to spend the money on a cash back reward card, I would be able to buy the ticket myself.

Hence, I just applied a citibank dividend platinum card which will pay me 5% on purchases at supermarket, drugstrores etc. I will deposit the money to my ING disney saving fund.
I will keep my citibank air mile card for shorter trips.