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Good news! You can now link and combine your British Airways and FinnAir Avios accounts in the same way you can link and combine your British Airways and Qatar Airways accounts. Why is this a good thing? It effectively means you can now move Avios between any of these British Airways, Iberia, Qatar, Aer Lingus, and FinnAir and take advantage of sweet spots not only in booking, but also in change/cancellation fees.
Another reason you’d want to do this is because FinnAir and Qatar will often release more award space to their own loyalty members vs partners. In this case, having the ability to move points between Avios partners is advantageous to score award space.
Additionally you can basically populate points from any transferrable program into Avios
- American Express
- Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, and Qatar Airways
- Bilt
- British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus
- Capital one
- British Airways and FinnAir
- Chase
- Aer Lingus, British Airways, and Iberia
- Citi
- Qatar Airways
- Wells Fargo
- Aer Lingus, British Airways, and Iberia
You can link these accounts by logging in and going here
Findflightsforme has a great breakdown of the Cathay Pacific sweet spot and how change fees, etc can vary
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 75,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
*you may find an elevated offer walking into a branch – see below
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- Earn 75,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
- That’s $750 when you redeem through Chase Travel℠
- Some people have seen Chase branches offering the following:
- 75k Ultimate Rewards After $4k spend in 3 months + 10k Ultimate Rewards after $6k in 6 months
- 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, 2024
- $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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