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@Anonymouswrote:
Was wondering if I buy airline points with a credit card, will it be treated as a cash advance?
I’m 949 points away from a business class seat and see I can buy 1000 points.
I've never seen it treated as a cash advance, but the transaction is often processed by a multi-airline points dealer and not the airline itself. If you use an airline cobrand card to buy miles, the transaction might not fall into a bonus category.
I don't believe it would be counted that way as you're not getting cash back.
@Anonymous
@Anonymouswrote:I don't believe it would be counted that way as you're not getting cash back.
@Anonymous
Well, depending what card you use you could of course be getting cash back (more as a side effect than the main goal). But you should be fine as it's not a financial institution or a cash equivalent, and it's not going to be a large amount of money
If you are buying points, how are you getting cash back? You talking about the cash-back rewards for purchasing using a card? I was talking about as in getting cash from the card then getting deposited into an account.
PS OK, yeah, cash as a side effect.