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The landing page for The New UnitedSM Business Card says that its ‘debut offer’ ends May 7. Until then you can earn 125,000 bonus miles after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months your account is open. The card has a $150 Annual Fee.
This card offers first checked bag free, and two annual club passes, plus priority boarding. These one-time use lounge passes will be restricted to when a cardmember or authorized user on the account are present. And you’ll receive a $125 United travel credit after making 5 United flight purchases of $100 or more each calendar year using the card.
Chase even encourages you to have both a business and personal United card because you’ll receive receive a 5,000-mile “better together” bonus each anniversary when you have this card and a personal Chase United credit card. And the card now earns 1 qualifying point per $20 spent, up to 4,000 qualifying points ($80,000 spend) each year) – an increase from the old 1,000 qualifying point cap.
This is a very nice bonus. And it has an annual fee increase like the personal explorer card does. They take a similar approach to statement credits to sell you on it.
- $100 rideshare credits – $8 in monthly statement credits January through November and $12 in December against purchases made on the card. Annual registration required.
- $100 in statement credits for hotel bookings – $50 up to twice per year on hotels booked through United and paid with the card.
- $50 in United TravelBank cash for Avis or Budget rentals paid with the card, $25 up to twice per year.
- $25 in statement credits for United FareLock purchases made with the card.
- $100 in statement credits against flights booked on JSX with the card.
- 3 months of free Instacart+ membership, and then 25% off thereafter – plus, $10 in monthly statement credits against Instacart purchases paid with the card – through December 31, 2027.
That’s a bundle of very rich offers that make the annual fee worth it. So while I don’t love the trend towards higher fees and chasing coupons – but there’s enough value here to be worth it.
@ Gary — I feel like I have 10 Instacart memberships, Global entry for a family of 12, priority Pass access for 30 friends and 100 per month rideshare credits. It is out of control. The SUBS are still great. Just be sure to churn as fast as possible!
@Gene — Ha! Wish there was a little less redundancy with the perks but good SUBs are SUBs…