Via Free Frequent Flyer Miles, American now offers a co-branded Visa with 20,000 points as a signup bonus (after $250 in spend) and no annual fee the first year. It’s another card you can pile on top of the personal and business Mastercards for a signup bonus, and since it’s a Citibank card odds-on it’s churnable though I haven’t tested this myself.
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for November 2007.
Radio Miles
Sirius Satellite Radio offers 2500 American miles for signup. XM just dropped the station I listen to most while driving, when it comes time to trade in my car next year I might have to consider this.
Free Avis Presidents Club Status
In my last post, I mentioned a premium Continental credit card from Chase that includes Avis Presidents Club as a benefit. It turns out that there’s a website for this offer, and anyone can use it to sign up for an Avis account that will be given the status. And for those that already have Preferred memberships, I’ve heard success just calling per the instructions on the website and having the existing account status upgraded. (Some folks have just opened new accounts for simplicity, as well.) Avis offers (4) levels of status: Preferred (anyone signs up for this, it expedites your rental) AvisFirst (one category upgrade, earn free weekend rentals – formerly called ‘Preferred Select’) Presidents Club (two category upgrade, guaranteed availability, better service) Chairmans Club (airport meet and greet, best available car, etc) A…
Continental’s Premium Credit Card
Nov
18
2007
The more I look at the Continental Presidential Plus MasterCard from Chase, the more interesting it looks — for a certain segment of frequent flyer. The $375 (gulp!) annual fee, though $300 in the first year, comes with Continental Presidents Club membership – which also gets you access to Northwest and Delta clubs. The similarly priced American Express Platinum card comes with this same lounge access plus access to American Airlines AAdmiral’s Clubs and other benefits (like the Fine Hotels and Resorts program and domestic companion airfare benefit) not matched by this card. However, for flyers seeking elite status on Continental, it offers the best credit card elite status perk I’ve seen with any airline: up to 28,000 elite qualifying miles per year through spending on the card, and best of all you can drop…
There *is* an ethics to all of this…
Now this is downright wrong, since it’s not just obtaining a discount from United – it’s denying that discount to whomever is rightly in possession of the certificate numbers you wind us using. Shame, shame.
I’m Still Here
I’ve appreciated the emails, the calls, the writhing pains of withdrawal. The last month has been so busy with work and travel and mostly mentally draining. There have been a hundred things I’ve meant to write about… Continental’s mileage devaluation, new credit card offers, this and that scheme or deal. I just haven’t had it in me. But I’ll be back by this week. I promise. So don’t go anywhere!
