{"id":702,"date":"2011-07-25T14:57:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T14:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2011-07-25T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T14:57:43","slug":"frequent-flier-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Frequent Flier Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I want to evaluate some of the best deals available right now. Here is the list in my order of value:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"American Airlines 75,000 AAdvantage\u00a0Citi\" href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/2011\/06\/07\/american-airlines-75000-aadvantage-citi\/\">Citi AAdvantage 75,000 Bonus<\/a>-No annual fee for the first year-75,000 Bonus Miles once you&#8217;ve spent $4000 within six months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>This card has been great to me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve scored this deal three times amongst my wife and I.\u00a0 We have enough miles that will carry us for days.\u00a0 We are still always watching for the next best deal though.<\/p>\n<p>Downside:\u00a0 Man, it is tough to have a downside when they are offering so much.\u00a0 It is an over the phone application, and they could end the promotion at any time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Chase Sapphire 50k Bonus Points + Possible 50k Points =100k of Wanderlust\u00a0Fuel\" href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/2011\/06\/20\/chase-sapphire-50k-bonus-points-possible-50k-points-100k-of-wanderlust-fuel\/\">Chase Sapphire Preferred<\/a>-No annual fee for the first year-50,000 Bonus points that can be transferred to Continental or a few other carriers-Awarded once you&#8217;ve spent $3000 within 3 months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>The additional 50,000 is dead at this point.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t see them brining it back.\u00a0 At one point they were bonusing people up to 100,00o points mark, but they have stopped that at this point.\u00a0 This is a great deal on 50k miles.\u00a0 The card itself actually looks really cool.<\/p>\n<p>Downside: Points aren&#8217;t transferable to all airlines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Bonused 5000\u00a0Starpoints\" href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/2011\/07\/09\/bonused-5000-starpoints\/\">American Express Starwood Preferred Guest<\/a>-No annual fee for the first year-30,000 Bonus Starpoints once you&#8217;ve spent $4500 within six months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>This offer either must be referred to you, or wait until the 26th and we should have the link for this offer.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve thought of any hotel card, this is the one to get.\u00a0 Their hotels are very nice, and using the points can take as little as 2000 per night.<\/p>\n<p>Downside: You have to wait until this offer comes out, and then you have to spend up to $4500 in six months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Southwest 2 free\u00a0flights\" href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/2011\/07\/07\/southwest-2-free-flights\/\">Chase Southwest Airlines<\/a>-$99 Annual fee-For your first purchase you are awarded 50,000 Rapid Rewards points<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>This usually would equate to 2 free flights within the US.\u00a0 Great deal.\u00a0 Southwest takes your bags without charging and they still offer snacks and drinks.\u00a0 Something that nobody else does.<\/p>\n<p>Downside: First year fee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Alaska Airlines 40,000 Miles Bank of\u00a0America\" href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/2011\/06\/23\/alaska-airlines-40000-miles-bank-of-america\/\">Bank of America Alaska Airlines<\/a>&#8211; $75 Annual fee- You are awarded 40,000 bonus miles upon approval.\u00a0 You also get a $99 companion certificate that can be used on flights to Hawaii or Mexico.\u00a0 This is an annual benefit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Great deal for people who love to go to Hawaii or Mexico.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll easily get your value each year out of the $75 annual fee.<\/p>\n<p>Downside: First year fee.\u00a0 Bank of America also has a lame process where they put inquiries into multiple credit reporting agencies.\u00a0 On top of all that, if you are not instantly approved for their Visa Signature card, but approved for one of their lesser cards, they will send you the lesser card.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Am I accurate?\u00a0 What would you change? Where do you see value or downsides that I haven&#8217;t included?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/track.linkoffers.net\/a.aspx?foid=2865931&amp;fot=9999&amp;foc=2\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content.linkoffers.net\/SharedImages\/Products\/163454\/523591.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I want to evaluate some of the best deals available right now. Here is the list in my order of value: Citi AAdvantage 75,000 Bonus-No annual fee for the first year-75,000 Bonus Miles once you&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=702\">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":[29,1878,118,1873],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DhXV-bk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}