What credit card for airline miles?

[mommykds]

Flying for our family of 5 is alot of money so I was looking for a credit card that has a good airline milage program. What do you use or suggest? I need some free tickets!

Thanks!!

 

[Dashzap]

Depends on your local airport, get a card with good miles that you will use!

 

[westcliffemom]

I use a Frontier card for miles, you get a free flight for 15,000 miles, I pay $49 a year to get $1/1 mile. It works great for us. There's 5 of us also, and we fly free about once a year. HTH!

 

[stephgles]

Bank of America has the US Airways card along with their Worldpoint card. Their worldpoint card can be used for a group of airlines not just one.

I know with US Airways you can travel with 25k miles roundtrip. I know with delta it is close to 50k miles. So it all depends on the airlines you like to use most often.

Stephgles

 

[Piecey]

Bank of America has the US Airways card along with their Worldpoint card. Their worldpoint card can be used for a group of airlines not just one.

I know with US Airways you can travel with 25k miles roundtrip. I know with delta it is close to 50k miles. So it all depends on the airlines you like to use most often.

Stephgles

There are two USAir cards-- I have the Mastcard (offered through JuniperBank) and Bank of America offers the Visa.

I love it though, and have already earned a free trip! (I have very limited spending (college student!) so thats a pretty large accomplishment for someone like me) ...

 

[bellarella]

Worldpoint is my favorite program. 25,000 points gets you domestic ticket on any airline, so long as the retail price of the ticket is less than $400. There are very few restrictions on the ticket, and if your flight does hit the restrictions, you can override them by spending 45,000 points. This is the only program I've had (and I've had a lot) where I've had virtually no problem cashing in points for tickets. Airline specific programs have tons of blackout dates generally, and only a few seats available on each flight for FF miles, so you generally have to book way in advance if you want chance at actually get seats. Because Worldpoints isn't associated with an airline, they are just buying regular tickets for you (up to that $400 limit), so you can book flights much closer to your travel dates and with more flexibility.

 

[ANTSS2001]

What about SWA ?? any thouhgts about it ???

 

[mikron]

I have a Delta you get double points on most purchases, They go everywhere and with double points 50,000 or less points are not to hard to build up. I have a Jet Blue also all there flights are 25,000 or there 100 point system. (Jet Blue has TVs)

 

[Piecey]

What about SWA ?? any thouhgts about it ???

Chase offers the SWA credit card, and if I remember correctly it isn't really that great of a deal.. it does have an annual fee, etc.

Check with some of your banks, too. We at Chase offer a United and/or a Continental airline miles debit card.

 

[Kate and Pete]

I have a citi bank thank you rewards card. 25,000 points per ticket - no limits, no black out dates (we fly out of tiny airport because that's what's nearest to us - and it's normally an arm and a leg to pay - we've had no problems using our miles!). Groceries earn double points (and something else does, too, but I don't remember what....). We use the cards like cash, paying them off every single month, and earn about two tickets every year (DH and I just visited my family in WI last week...next year we're going to fly to FL and go on a cruise using our free tickets...)

Great rewards with them!

 

[ANTSS2001]

Chase offers the SWA credit card, and if I remember correctly it isn't really that great of a deal.. it does have an annual fee, etc.

Check with some of your banks, too. We at Chase offer a United and/or a Continental airline miles debit card.

thanks for the fyi...