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The Chase Freedom card offers 10x points on car rentals through the UR portal. American Airlines is giving up to 1250 AAdvantage miles with Budget and Avis rentals.
I was recently on a flight and saw an ad in the American Way magazine that highlighted the opportunity to earn up to 1250 Aadvantage miles with Budget and Avis. It got me thinking…doesn’t the Chase Freedom Card have a 10x bonus for car rentals during the month of July? YES, IT DOES!!!!!
- 750 miles just for having the credit card! That’s pretty phenom and another reason to keep the card.
This offer is only for Avis and Budget. Which, in case you didn’t know, are part of the same company.
Now I’m sure some of you, like Miles, were thinking you could just do a series of rentals and earn enough for flights. After all, a one way business class ticket is 57,500 miles. If you were Executive Platinum and did this 46 times – Ok, that’s a bit crazy – and could find rentals for $15/day then you could buy a business class one way for less than $700 and have a rental car for a month an a half. However, the terms and conditions stipulate that you can’t do this. However, you could alternate rentals within a household, crediting each account every other day and earn a lot of bonus points.
The Stacking potential with Chase Freedom 10x
Until the end of July you can earn 10x Ultimate Rewards by booking through the Ultimate Rewards portal and paying with your Chase Freedom card.
With a rental like this you’d earn
- $35 * 10 = 350 Ultimate Rewards
- AAdvantage bonus: 1000 if platinum
If you value Ultimate Reward points at $0.02 and Aadvantage at $0.018 you’d be getting $7 back and $18 respectively. Bringing this rental down to just $17 net. Not a bad deal!
This was just a random date that I searched for at LAX. I’m sure there are plenty of better deals out there where the rental rates fall below $20/day. At that rate you could come closet to breakeven with rentals. Not a bad deal…at all.
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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