It's not really a recon, I and many others just SM them and got back a canned "Yes, you can ask for the 70,000 after meeting that spend requirement" message.
Given jsu notes, I'm going to ask for 70k after $1k.
@Anonymous wrote:I second the no AF Arrival. It's a solid no AF travel card. No FTF, 2X points on travel and dining, 10% bonus redemption rate if you redeem for travel statement credits, and a decent sign up bonus to boot. Not too shabby.
The OP has Capital One, which I believe is consistently No FTF even on my no AF basic CapOne MC.
Thnx
This is a cool card!
@jsucool76 wrote:
@NRB525 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:I second the no AF Arrival. It's a solid no AF travel card. No FTF, 2X points on travel and dining, 10% bonus redemption rate if you redeem for travel statement credits, and a decent sign up bonus to boot. Not too shabby.
The OP has Capital One, which I believe is consistently No FTF even on my no AF basic CapOne MC.
It's no FTF, but doesn't offer EMV, making int'l use a bit of a hassle.
Good point, however except for "local international airport" I did not get the impression OP is going to do any overseas travel.
@Anonymous wrote:I second the no AF Arrival. It's a solid no AF travel card. No FTF, 2X points on travel and dining, 10% bonus redemption rate if you redeem for travel statement credits, and a decent sign up bonus to boot. Not too shabby.
Since you mention renting cars fairly often you may want to consider the arrival+ since its a world elite card (if you can rent with avis hertz, national or sixt). The reason being is that world elite will give you status with those rental companies which is a nice perk plus you can get anyone from 10-25% off rentals depending on the company you use. The AF isn't due the first year and if you rent often enough these dicounts and benefits alone can more than offset the AF.
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@NRB525 wrote:
@jsucool76 wrote:
@NRB525 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:I second the no AF Arrival. It's a solid no AF travel card. No FTF, 2X points on travel and dining, 10% bonus redemption rate if you redeem for travel statement credits, and a decent sign up bonus to boot. Not too shabby.
The OP has Capital One, which I believe is consistently No FTF even on my no AF basic CapOne MC.
It's no FTF, but doesn't offer EMV, making int'l use a bit of a hassle.
Good point, however except for "local international airport" I did not get the impression OP is going to do any overseas travel.
Then FTF doesn't really play a role at all.
@Anonymous wrote:
@jsucool76 wrote:
@NRB525 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:I second the no AF Arrival. It's a solid no AF travel card. No FTF, 2X points on travel and dining, 10% bonus redemption rate if you redeem for travel statement credits, and a decent sign up bonus to boot. Not too shabby.
The OP has Capital One, which I believe is consistently No FTF even on my no AF basic CapOne MC.
It's no FTF, but doesn't offer EMV, making int'l use a bit of a hassle.
There's that, and there's also the fact that while the QS has no FTF, the Arrival has other advantages over the QS as mentioned above.
Also, OP, what some people do is apply for the Arrival+ and then downgrade to the regular Arrival after a year or two (the annual fee is waived for the first year). The sign up bonus is very good on the Arrival+ so that might be worth looking into. (People used to do the same thing with the Chase Sapphire Preferred; use it for a year and then downgrade...unfortunately, Chase caught on and expired the regular Chase Sapphire card).
I'm not sure if this is accurate. You can't app directly for the CS, but I have seen reports within the last few weeks of people still being able to downgrade from CSP to CS unless its been changed very recently. I'm not sure chase killed the CS due to people getting the CSP and then downgrading, because now what those same people will do is just cancel the CSP if they can't downgrade. If I had to guess Chase just wanted to reduce the number of products they had and the CS was unlikely to be a money maker compared to the CSP.