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I consider Turkish to be one of the most valuable sleeper programs floating around. It’s a transfer partner of a few transferrable credit card programs, but most people aren’t familiar with it and never use it. For those of you that do use it, you may not know that if you refer a friend to the program you can earn 500 miles per person that signs up and flies with Turkish. It’s capped at 2500 miles and the biggest caveat is that the person you refer must fly a flight on Turkish to earn the points. It doesn’t however say that it needs to be a revenue fare which could be useful if flying an award flight on Turkish in the future.
Turkish is a partner of Citi, Cap1 and Bilt
One of the best uses is flying from the USA to Europe for just 45k miles. Unreal deal
You can refer here
- You earn 500 miles when someone uses your referral to sign and flies Turkish Airlines
- It doesn’t say that it has to be a revenue fare…so that could be useful
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- With You&Friends, you can invite as many people as you wish to become Miles&Smiles members, and you can earn Miles from a maximum of five people.
- You must provide the name, surname and e-mail address of the person you are inviting.
- When the person you invite to become a member signs up and flies their first flight with Turkish Airlines, you can earn 500 Miles.
- You can earn up to 2,500 Miles through You&Friends.
- If the person you invite is already a Miles&Smiles member, you cannot earn Miles.
- Miles earned through You&Friends are subject to the Miles&Smiles program terms and conditions.
- A Miles&Smiles account must be opened using the link on the You&Friends image.
- You must sign in to invite friends to become Miles&Smiles members.
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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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