{"id":480,"date":"2011-06-23T04:47:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T04:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2014-04-14T11:52:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T17:52:47","slug":"alaska-airlines-40000-miles-bank-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines 40,000 Miles Bank of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update:\u00a0 This offer has expired.\u00a0 Check our &#8220;Frequent Flier Miles Credit Cards for the latest deals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wow.\u00a0 This card is pretty tempting to me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never had a Bank of America credit card, but this Bank of America Alaska Airlines credit card looks pretty good.\u00a0 I think that it has great value to anyone.\u00a0 Let me explain to you why I think that this card is very attractive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>40,000 Alaska Airlines Miles upon approval.\u00a0 This means that they don&#8217;t have a minimum spending requirement.\u00a0 Finally<\/li>\n<li>$99 Companion ticket given annually.\u00a0 This ticket is special because it will cover anyone who wants to travel anywhere that Alaska flies, which includes Alaska (Obviously), Hawaii, and Mexico.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a03 points per dollar are given for purchasing the flights with your card.\u00a0 (You would have to purchase one flight to use the companion ticket)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that this card also has a few downsides as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$75 Annual Fee (due the first year too)<\/li>\n<li>Doesn&#8217;t cover any baggage fees on any flights.<\/li>\n<li>If you are approved for a lesser card because you&#8217;re credit isn&#8217;t as good or you aren&#8217;t eligible for the best card they will automatically set you up for one of their not-as-good cards.<\/li>\n<li>Rumors that Bank of America is pulling your credit history from more than one credit bureau.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember that you will also need some hotel points.\u00a0 Use the Hilton HHonors like we talked about yesterday or score yourself the same card that I have, the SPG American Express.<\/p>\n<p>Starwood Preferred Guest\u00ae Credit Card from American Express<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update:\u00a0 This offer has expired.\u00a0 Check our &#8220;Frequent Flier Miles Credit Cards for the latest deals. &nbsp; Wow.\u00a0 This card is pretty tempting to me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never had a Bank of America credit card, but this Bank of America Alaska &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[1878,106,110,122,127],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DhXV-7K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}