{"id":6129,"date":"2014-12-01T06:50:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T13:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2015-01-12T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:38:10","slug":"whats-best-travel-rewards-card-get-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=6129","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Best Travel Rewards Card to Get Right Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re excited to say that what we felt like was already the best card available has now gotten even better with a 50k bonus<\/a> for an undetermined limited time. The links in this post and on the right sidebar will take you to the 50k offer.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Best” is, of course, a relative term, and yet we get this question\u00a0ALL\u00a0the time. \u00a0I generally try to answer by asking some questions of my own: “Would you like to travel internationally or domestic?” “Do you normally spend $1000\/mo on everyday expenses?”<\/a> “What airlines service your closest airport(s)?” All of these may potentially feed into what may be the “best” travel rewards card for every individual.<\/p>\n

Yet there are some considerations that are universal – and one of those is scarcity – which reminds me of a story.<\/p>\n

As I have written before, I am the oldest of four boys, and as the oldest, I always held a strategic edge over them when it came to cold, calculating slyness. My mom used to buy these 36-packs of Pop-Tarts from Sam’s Club, and they came with three flavors – cherry, strawberry, and brown sugar & cinnamon. Of the four of us, I was the only brother who actually enjoyed the brown sugar & cinnamon Pop-Tarts… the other three would eat only the cherry and strawberry.<\/p>\n

A natural resolution would have been for me to eat what the others didn’t prefer, and let them eat what they enjoyed… but that wouldn’t have been cold, calculating, and sly. The element of scarcity didn’t exist in the brown sugar & cinnamon Pop-Tarts, but it did in the cherry and strawberry, which is why I always opted to eat the fruity ones first, and then to enjoy the others without any competition.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I tell this story because it’s because of scarcity that I’m going to name the US Airways Premier World MasterCard\u00ae<\/a>\u00a0as the best travel rewards credit card you can get right now. It’s scarce because US Airways is merging with American Airlines, and it’s presumably only a matter of time before the card is no longer available. \u00a0The same thing happened with the AirTran card when they merged with Southwest, and I didn’t take my own advice and let that one slip by without getting it to join\u00a0the list of 39 travel reward credit cards I’ve applied for and recieved over 3 million points in bonuses on over the past 4 years.<\/p>\n

But if “scarcity” were the only reason I liked this card, it wouldn’t be nearly enough for me to say it’s the best option out there. \u00a0There are a lot of reasons this card is such a great way to build your reward balances up.<\/p>\n