United / Continental credit card holders: Virgin Atlantic ends partnership on 2/13/12

For those of you with the United Explorer, Continental OnePass Plus, and Chase Sapphire Preferred credit cards, here’s a heads up about one airline where you could use your miles for flights. Virgin Atlantic will no longer be available for redemption using Continental Airlines OnePass miles effective February 13, 2012. You can make mile ticket... -->Read the full article

American Express Platinum Card: Full benefits guide

American Express doesn’t do a great job of detailing the comprehensive benefits of its $450 per year Platinum Card on its application site. Here, we have compiled a comprehensive list of U.S. based American Express Platinum Card features and benefits — to review whether you are a current card member or thinking of applying. We also include... -->Read the full article

Best Southwest credit card? It might not say Southwest on it

If you fly Southwest airlines and value their Rapid Rewards points, there are two personal Southwest credit card options that are Southwest branded – The Southwest Rapid Rewards Plus credit card and Southwest Rapid Rewards Premier credit card. But you may not know you have an alternative to the Chase Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards credit... -->Read the full article

Upgrade success with Platinum Card from American Express – Volvo and an Executive Suite

The Platinum Card from American Express is the kind of credit card you can hold more for the travel privileges it affords than the points you earn with the card. In other words, it can be well worth it simply to have the card in your name even if you don’t use it for your... -->Read the full article

Southwest balance transfer bonus offer: is the fee worth the points?

The Southwest Rapid Rewards credit cards are offering a limited time balance transfer bonus offer. The bonus is one Southwest Rapid Rewards point per dollar of balance transfers into your new Southwest Rapid Rewards credit card. The catch… You pay a 3% cash fee on the amount of the balance transfer You are limited to a... -->Read the full article

Chase Sapphire Preferred – Frequently Asked Questions

The Chase Sapphire Preferred is Chase’s flagship rewards credit card, earning ‘Ultimate Rewards’ points that can be transferred to several leading airline and hotel programs like United, Southwest, Continental, Hyatt, and Marriott. As the Chase Sapphire Preferred credit card increases in popularity we are getting more questions on how it works. Below are some answers... -->Read the full article

Confirmed: Instant Korean Airlines mile transfer from Chase Sapphire Preferred

The Chase Sapphire Preferred credit card and its Chase Ultimate Rewards program is a favorite of savvy travelers because it allows 1:1 mile transfer to several top airline mile programs, and has at least one program in each major global airline mile alliance: Star Alliance (United and Continental), One World (British Airways), and SkyTeam (Korean... -->Read the full article

Southwest now Chase Sapphire Preferred mile transfer partner

You can now transfer the Ultimate Rewards points from your Chase Sapphire Preferred card to your Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards account 1:1 instantly, with no fees. This also works for other premium Ultimate Rewards cards with a mile transfer feature like the Ink Bold. No other cards offer this generous 1:1 mile transfer feature…Chase has... -->Read the full article

Cash back credit cards with better than 1% return

There are dozens of pure cash back credit cards on the market, but only a handful offer anything above a standard 1% return on your spending. You can easily do better than that with a regular airline mile credit card, even when factoring annual fees. However the few cash back credit cards that earn greater than... -->Read the full article

Want to upgrade your airline mile credit card? — Don’t call the credit card company first

More and more we are seeing multiple tiers of airline mile credit cards from the same company. Examples include… Gold Delta Sky Miles American Express (first tier), Platinum Delta Sky Miles American Express (second tier), Delta Reserve (third tier) Chase Sapphire (first tier), Chase Sapphire Preferred (second tier) Green American Express (first tier), Gold American... -->Read the full article