I think these type of credit cards are crazy, I'll choose cash back rewaeds on my next credit card before I rack up another 300,000+ stupid sky miles. Cash is King!!! Before it was 50,000 sky miles, now they want 60,000 miles for Ukraine, and the flights we want are never available. And they still charge their little extra fees for what was suppose to be "FREE" ticket.HA! HA!
Then don't use the points for, supposed, free flights, use the points for (long haul) upgrades to business class or, if they might be Lufthansa Miles & More points, fly with Swiss International Airlines and use the points in exchange for duty free goods and without any surcharges, my last trip on Swiss I got 400 Marlboro Gold in exchange for a few thousand points.
Credit Cards? An airline frequent flyer programme is not a credit card!
us airways has a visa card you get points for every dollar spent. It is part of the frequent flyers plan. I used it for years. They started to send me 2fers in the mail recently. 2fers= companion ticket for free. But again you can't always get the flights you want. I've since started using my cabela's card for everything. Free outdoor equipment!
The captain is talking about delta sky miles I think. They do the same thing. I have delta miles because they fly to Russia and Ukraine. I doubt I'll ever visit Ukraine again.
In UK supermarkets, airlines, every man and his dog offer credit cards with an incentive programme but all they are doing is marketing a credit card's company product for which they receive far more than the incentive programmes they offer.
These days the taxes, fuel surcharges, etc. etc. etc. can make up more than 50% of the overall ticket price and I certainly don't fly with the same airline all the time, if I wanted a UK credit card I'd probably opt for a supermarket, rather than airline, card
Cabela's is an outdoor store. Fishing, hunting, camping and pretty much anything you need for outdoor sports... I would never buy anything there for full price--way overpriced. But with incentives using the 'points' it's a good deal. Just remember to pay off the balance in full each month and it's free money.
I got my wife her wedding present there - a new fly rod. :)
In UK we have 'cashback' programme websites whereas the private individual receives the equivalent monetary payment that the vendor would otherwise pay to an affilate marketer.
So far, in a little over 2 years, I've earned circa $2,500 in cashback, as an example, on my recent trip to Asia, I got 1.7% cashback on the flight booking, during the trip I utilised 11 nights in 5 different hotels, for 7 nights I got 11% cashback on the hotel price and 5% for the other 4 nights.