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Via Twitter, Iberia announced NYC as the A350’s first destination
Iberia ordered 16 state of the art, jetlag fighting, Airbus A350s and via Twitter, Iberia let us know that New York would be the first destination serviced. In addition to that, the A350_production twitter account revealed that the airline would be training crew on the London to Madrid route. See where I’m going? This route is currently serviced by an A340 and was listed by Miles himself as one of the 5 ways to fly flat for 15k points. Starting in June, the route will either feature an additional crew training flight, or will take over the current A340 route. Either way, keep checking award availability because you could be one of the first passengers to try out the Iberia A350 intra-europe in their new business class for just 15k points, and on a lot of dates, under 13k.What’s even better? You’ll have flown it before the inaugural from MAD to JFK. Pretty cool.
The Tweets:
Specs on the new business class
348 seats – economy, premium economy, and business
- 293 economy
- 24 premium economy
- 31 business class
The seat looks very much the same as Iberia’s current business class. However, the new seats will be a couple inches wider, offer a 6’4″ bed, an 18in sensitive HD touch screen, wider footrest, and more intra seat storage. The new Iberia A350 will also offer high speed internet.
How you can book the flight from LHR to MAD for just 15k points (12,750 off peak):
The new flights aren’t loaded yet, so there is no way to search the EXACT flight, but here’s the A340 flying next week, which is off peak. These crew flights will launch in June which has a TON of off peak days, but as soon as you get into July, peak takes over. The following is found utilizing British Airways search engine.
BA’s Peak/ Off Peak calendar
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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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