Putting it on the Marriott is better than nothing. However, if you are able to get a card and have the use for one, you can certainly do better than 8k Marriott points. If travel is made through the UR portal for the CSP, you can get 3x UR points which can then be transferred to one of the UR partners, including Marriott. Also, you could get the credit card of the airline you are using as well. Do you know which airline you are going to use?
@jm1991 wrote:I will be traveling in the middle of june with my family and i will be putting all the plane tickets on one of my cards for rewards, i got the cash to pay it all off asap. But i will spending almost 4k on the tickets alone and the only cards that i have for traveling are Amex blue sky and Marriott Premier Visa. The marriott card i just got this march and already passed the spending threashhold for my bonus and got my 70K bonus but it earns the 2x points on airfare. Im sure ill be using it also for the no foreign tras fees and chip. But i was pondering on applying for a new card that would be better in terms of rewards for airfare as well as a good sign up bonus. But i dont know if i would be approved since i got the marriott card just recently. any suggestions? should i apply for a new card or put the tickets on the marriott?
need to buy the tickets in the next 20 days.
Have you considered AMEX PRG? 25k MR points after $2K spend & 3X points for flights booked with airlines. AF waived first year, then $175. You can downgrade before AF kicks in. Since you have an AMEX already, it's a SP if denied. Of course, HP if approved and you get established MSD with new card. They typically overnight the card to you if approved.
https://www304.americanexpress.com/credit-card/premier-rewards-gold
http://www.creditcards.com/credit-cards/american-express-premier-rewards-gold-card.php?catid=22
@jm1991 wrote:We are flying to mexico. I was thinking Volaris since its relatively cheap and they are direct flight and never had a problem with them, but i dont think they have a frequent flyer program. Just some vclub membership that discounts you some percentage. was also thinking Aeromexico
Aeromexico is part of the Delta Alliance I believe.
@jm1991 wrote:
@LearningMoreAboutCredit wrote:
@jm1991 wrote:I will be traveling in the middle of june with my family and i will be putting all the plane tickets on one of my cards for rewards, i got the cash to pay it all off asap. But i will spending almost 4k on the tickets alone and the only cards that i have for traveling are Amex blue sky and Marriott Premier Visa. The marriott card i just got this march and already passed the spending threashhold for my bonus and got my 70K bonus but it earns the 2x points on airfare. Im sure ill be using it also for the no foreign tras fees and chip. But i was pondering on applying for a new card that would be better in terms of rewards for airfare as well as a good sign up bonus. But i dont know if i would be approved since i got the marriott card just recently. any suggestions? should i apply for a new card or put the tickets on the marriott?
need to buy the tickets in the next 20 days.
Have you considered AMEX PRG? 25k MR points after $2K spend & 3X points for flights booked with airlines. AF waived first year, then $175. You can downgrade before AF kicks in. Since you have an AMEX already, it's a SP if denied. Of course, HP if approved and you get established MSD with new card. They typically overnight the card to you if approved.
https://www304.americanexpress.com/credit-card/premier-rewards-gold
http://www.creditcards.com/credit-cards/american-express-premier-rewards-gold-card.php?catid=22
mmm that actually sounds good. Though i dont know how it would be in the long run. How valuable are amex rewards 25k vs chase 40k? though to be honest since i already got the marriott card, CSP it has similar earnings on dining and travel. PRG has super markets and gas but higher annual fee. uh.. so difficult.
I think the PRG is a great choice here. But here is the kicker. You definitely want to go through creditcards.com and use the card match tool. You might be offered the 50K bonus points version with only 1k minimum spend. If you get it, amd put the 4k plane tickets on it, you will have 62K MR points. MR points are very valuable IMO because of transfers to loyalty programs. One of the best uses is transferring to British Airways avios. They have a distance based award chart and only charge 4K points on short haul domestic (direct flights). This includes many US-Carribean destinations. With 62K points, you could potentiallly fly 15 times one way on AA short haul flights. Same goes for domestic one-world flights world wide. (Sao Paulo-Rio for example on TAM)
If you don't get PRG for some reason, I guess the CSP isn't too shabby.
The 100k bonus miles AA offer is still out there. 4k would go a long way towards the required spend.
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