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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People here may not like it but Citi/American Platinum Select. It obviously ties your miles to American, so that works better if you are more into domestic travel originating at the east coast airports rather than international travel.

1:1 miles per dollar spent, though 2 miles for every $1 at restaurants or gas stations or with American Airlines. Plus 50k miles when you open an account, which is pretty much enough for a cross country flight. Points add up quick if you're the type of person who charges everything.

I personally was looking for a card that would give me status with one airline and among other things allow for preferential boarding on flights -- as I was getting sick of always been in group 9. This guarantees you at least group 5 boarding. I looked at Chase Sapphire which everyone recommends but IDK I didn't really see the appeal unless you are REALLY committed to traveling a lot AND really want to be going overseas a lot -- seems like all their partners are foreign airlines. Unsophisticated to say on DCUM but 1-2 trips per year is pretty much enough for me and those trips are more likely to be Charleston or Orlando or Vegas rather than Australia or Croatia.

But I figured if I change my mind on that -- build up the points with American in a year or so, let them sit for domestic travel and then "advance" to something like Chase.[/quote]

Chase Sapphire partners are: 
•British Airways

•Air France/KLM Flying Blue

•Korean Air SkyPass

•Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer

•Southwest Rapid Rewards

•United MileagePlus

•Virgin Atlantic Flying Club

The United linkage was huge for us as it covers both domestic flights and international partner airlines such as Lufthansa. You can also book hotels anywhere with it. Also Southwest is huge for domestic flights. You can transfer chase points to United if you want to book through United (we were able to combine United points and Chase points for one trip). The only thing you have to be committed to for Chase to be worth it is one trip or even just one hotel night worth $150+ (the membership fee).
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The other thing Chase Sapphire points are good for is redeeming as if they were cash through Chase Ultimate Rewards travel -- if you have the Sapphire Reserve, you get 1.5 cents per point. Never have to worry about blackout dates or award fare classes not being available (though obviously the more expensive the ticket is, the more points it costs), and it's easy to combine cash and points if you don't have enough points to cover the whole fare. Plus you earn frequent flier miles on the flight. You can do that for flights on any airline, whether it's one of their transfer partners or not. That's been how we've used most of our points, not transferring them to airline miles.[/quote]

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