5% Points or Cash back on airlines all the time

[nishant1]

Chase offers one quarter on airlines. US Cash + has one category.

 I have dedicated one 5% category on current US Cash + card all the time for airline.Now that US Cash + attractive categories like bill pay, Home improvement and Airlines are going away, is there any other cards which gives 5% back on airline all the time?

I have many cards which give 2% on travel or airline like Chase Sapphire Preferred but nothing to replace US Cash + category.

In absence of new card, I plan is to use all my 3 Chase cards- Freedom, Sapphire Preferred and Sapphire No annual fee Mastercard points including leveraged Freedom 5% points. Then transfer all points to Sapphire Preferred and book flight using Ultimate rewards which will give me 6.25% from 5% Freedom transferred and 2.675% from Sapphire Preferred and 1.33% from Sapphire MasterCard.

Above calculation includes 7% annual bonus on Both Sapphire cards and 25% bonus from ultimate rewards site bookings.

[webhopper]

Discover gives 5% back on travel booked through shopdiscover. Hotels.com and expedia are both shop discover partners. Amex gives 4x MR on flights with PRG booked though amex travel online.

[nishant1]

Discover does not offer 5% cashback on airline tickets.

[nishant1]

Expedia Terms and conditions mention

• Offer not valid on standalone flight purchases

[webhopper]

If I use shopdiscover to book travel I add the hotel in. Flight only I use amex travel. Discover vacation desk is also 5% cash back on things like cruises and vacation packages with a live travel agent to help you with booking and getting discounts like AARP or military discount applied.

[Repo-ed]

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@webhopper wrote:
Discover gives 5% back on travel booked through shopdiscover. Hotels.com and expedia are both shop discover partners. Amex gives 4x MR on flights with PRG booked though amex travel online.

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What is the actual site? url?

When I log into my account and click on travel, it only shows booking  options for Plat holders.

When I go here https://travel.americanexpress.com/home it ask that I log in, and then I'm not able to navigate BACK to the original url.

[webhopper]

https://travel.americanexpress.com/home?inav=menu_travel_book

There are seperate travel options depending on what amex cards you hold. I can either use the personal "book a trip" button or use the business travel button where there are savings due to pre arranged fare reductions. For reimbursed travel I would go through the PR personal travel portal. My small business does not require travel so I have never used the business travel portal.

[UFGuy2006]

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@nishant1 wrote:

Chase offers one quarter on airlines. US Cash + has one category.

 I have dedicated one 5% category on current US Cash + card all the time for airline.Now that US Cash + attractive categories like bill pay, Home improvement and Airlines are going away, is there any other cards which gives 5% back on airline all the time?

I have many cards which give 2% on travel or airline like Chase Sapphire Preferred but nothing to replace US Cash + category.

In absence of new card, I plan is to use all my 3 Chase cards- Freedom, Sapphire Preferred and Sapphire No annual fee Mastercard points including leveraged Freedom 5% points. Then transfer all points to Sapphire Preferred and book flight using Ultimate rewards which will give me 6.25% from 5% Freedom transferred and 2.675% from Sapphire Preferred and 1.33% from Sapphire MasterCard.

Above calculation includes 7% annual bonus on Both Sapphire cards and 25% bonus from ultimate rewards site bookings.

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Penfed Travel Rewards Amex provides 5x points per dollar for Airline purchases.

[nickn86]

PRG is 3x MR for travel and 4x if you book through Amex Travel.  Amex Travel is always a little bit more expensive than booking directly through the airline or with Orbitz, Expedia, etc... though unfortunately (tickets are like 8 bucks more for domestic travel, not sure about international).

The Travelocity Amex and Priceline Visa both give 5% if you book through their respective sites I believe.

[nishant1]

Priceline visa rewards mentions 5% on "Name your price" hotels but nowhere it mentions that it gives 5% on airline.

Can anybody confirm that priceline gives 5% points when booked air ticket from priceline.com and charged to priceline visa.