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Looks like Citi has a new credit card which gives you points for $ spent and also points for the actual miles flown regardless of which airline you fly. Interesting concept!! Will look at this further and wanted to let others know about this.
http://www.citibank.com/us/cards/cardserv/premierpass/index.jsp#
Points for the miles flown range from 1 point per 3 miles to 1 point per 1 mile depending on which card you apply for.
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Looks like Citi has a new credit card which gives you points for $ spent and also points for the actual miles flown regardless of which airline you fly. Interesting concept!! Will look at this further and wanted to let others know about this.
The T&Cs are almost incomprehensible. But ... maximum of 100,000 miles accumulated by flying per year, you must buy the ticket with the card, when redeeming your points for an award at least 50% of the points must be from spend rather than flights. The travel awards are not good. If you want to do premium travel (which is where the value is on most FFPs) you need to burn mucho points: a restricted business class ticket to Europe is 165,000 points; 300,000 for an unrestricted ticket.
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I've also been kinda interested in this card, but there do seem to be a fair number of catches. FYI, it's also been discussed over in the Mileage Run forum, in the following thread:
Possible credit card for Mileage Runners (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=354368)
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I have applied for this card. I'll let you know if its any good once I get it.
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One thing that caught my eye was the provision that you get the points for flown miles no matter who flies them, as long as you pay for the tickets with the card.
So you can be generous and get "miles', too.
I say "miles" because they're not really miles, but rather points you can use to buy tickets.
I'm currently passing on this, but I'll keep an eye on it.
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I travel on business once in a while and PremierPass's flight points appeals to me. and yes you do get flight points for tickets you buy for another person. As pointed out by several other posters there're restrictions, mainly:
1. you need eqaul amount of purchase points to redeem flight points,
2. complimentary companion travel only covers base fare, you have to pay taxes, airport charges, security fees and fuel surcharges are add-ons. also you have to go through some company called "spirit incentives" to book your travel, blackout dates are 12/15-1/6 and "other blackouts many occur. the more I read about this the more it sounds like another worthless marketing ploy. I'll book something soon from bay area to Orlando, let's see how it works out.
the main headache though is the "thank you redemption network" itself. I have so far tried three times (each time includes trying register/logon via website, try deal with their automated phone system, try deal with their customer service), and I am still not able to register or login to the "network". The whole system seems to be run by some third party contractor, the quality is nowhere close to what you normally expect from citi. If you're on the west coast, you'd better try this before work in the morning, the customer service is closed for weekends, and at 5pm PDT promptly on weekdays, wait is extremely long trying to find a rep to talk to, every one of them seems to be overwhelmed by people trying to get things working, like myself.
The card seems to be a good value, but this first impression makes you wonder when it comes to redemption both your choices and service behind it will be spotty.