✈️ Which card am I applying for next?

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Here’s what’s on today—

📉 Stay with me on this one. Qatar Q-suite has been named the most sought-after, premier business class experience out there. These seats are minimum $5k from US to the middle east and are difficult to find award redemptions for as well. With the utmost in luxury, it is nothing short of a dream to have 12 hours on this direct flight. Don’t worry about bringing your pajamas or noise canceling headphones→ they supply them for you 🤯

✈︎ Points + Miles

TOP STORY: Which card is next in my wallet?

There are some points + miles folks who are always working on a minimum spend, meaning that at any given time, they have a new credit card that they’re putting all their purchases on to get the points from the welcome offer. For example, this Capital One Venture card currently has an elevated offer (which I HIGHLY recommend applying bc it’s a hell of a deal).

Now back to the strategy above→ So the minimum spend for the Capital One Venture card is $4,000 in 3 months. In this scenario, once that minimum spend is completed, I’d apply to my next card and keep the pattern going, pulling in hundreds of thousands of points throughout the year.

→I’m a bit more conservative in the points + miles arena←

My credit card strategy is to apply for a new credit card if either:

1) There is a specific trip I am looking to take, OR

2) There is an elevated offer that’s super valuable

Right now, I can check the boxes for both 1 and 2, so here’s my debate:

Card option A→ It’s from a bank that I can’t name- which is frustrating because I’m literally trying to write about it in this moment. 

However, what I can say is that I love all of the cards in this family; let’s call them blue bank cards→ because they easily transfer to over a dozen airlines as well as Hyatt hotels all over the world. If I were to build up points anywhere, it would be with these guys and with the current elevated offer of 120,000 pts, it’s higher than it’s ever been! It’s worth $1,200 in cash back, $1,500 in the _____ portal or well over $1,500 if you transfer these sweet puntos out to a partner airline or hotel.

Card option B → Now, all that being said, I’m also super interested in this card, for completely different reasons.  While there isn’t an elevated offer here, it is a “keeper card”, meaning it has every day value to rake in points in addition to the welcome offer. The main reason I love this card is that it earns 4x points in grocery stores. Groceries are our main monthly expense and I’m always looking at how to maximize my points on this purchase. Check out this value :

Grocery expense: $250/week = $1,000/month = 4,000 pts x 12 months = 48,000 points per year.

This easily is a roundtrip flight to TONS of travel destinations entirely covered by my groceries, year after year.

Add in the current welcome offer of 60k and I’m splurging for business class 🎉

So, as you can see I have a few things yet to consider, but I think I’m closer to my decision. Stay tuned in the coming weeks about what I’m choosing to add to my wallet next!

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Spirit with a business class announcement

Spirit Air, possibly the most well recognized US budget airline with it’s bright yellow planes and add on pricing has made a major announcement, and no, it’s not to change their highlighter yellow branding. Rather, we are saying goodbye to their “bare bones” pricing. You can now expect these 4 tier pricing options:

Some of the biggest offers: Go Comfy to guarantee no middle seat occupant and the Go Big option to include snacks and drinks, carry-on and checked bags as well as large, upscale seating.

Spirit has not been profitable since 2019, and the option for selling premium seating is their strategy to change that. Time will tell if this makes the people happy and in turn makes Spirit profitable.

Proposal for airlines to allow children to be seated next to parents

What is one of parent’s biggest concerns about air travel with young kids? The seating arrangement. Biden’s latest proposal would mandate that airlines allow families to sit together at no extra fee. While some airlines state that they already do this or make great efforts to sit families together, this proposal would assure this is best practice each time.

As always, thank you for your support and for being here today!

Allie