10 credit cards that give you fat airline mile bonuses for signing up. Also, 9 more that do the same, but have an annual fee. [FiveCentNickle]
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Those kinds of rewards are stupid. Cashback and/or reward programs with actual monetary value (starbucks duetto) are the only meaningful rewards. Airline miles have too many blackout dates anyway.
Sorry… but “Nickle”?
Frontier Airlines’ Juniper Bank card ought to be there. I agree, most of these programs are nearly scams with all the blackouts, but Frontier has no blackouts (although they do throttle the number of seats available through miles).
But I fly to Denver (their hub) a lot, so it works well for me. If you get one where it works for you, then you can do well. I get better return for Denver flights that I was going to buy anyway than if I got cash back on my Capital One card.
I’d have to question cash back for Starbuck’s as being valuable. I want cash back on something I truly was going to buy. If I had cashback for Starbucks, then of course I *would* use it, but would I have spend that money otherwise? Probably not.
Well, as a college student, I kinda LIVE on Starbucks….
@BobCoyote: It looks like the actual link spells it “nickel.” I dunno about the site itself since I haven’t followed the link.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… We here in FiveCentNickel land still love Ben even if he spells Nickel like Pickle.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… We here in FiveCentNickel-land still love Ben even if he spells Nickel like Pickle.
I disagree. In terms over % return for rewards, airline miles are probably the most valuable thing you can get from your rewards card. Black out dates suck but you can find times to fly. Example- the flight from my home to my parents is typically a $550-600 flight. That’s 2.4% rewards assuming you never get double miles or a huge chunk of miles for signing up. I can get to the carribean for 30k miles, some of the places I go cost nearly $1600 for a ticket. That’s a 5.3% return.
If you sign up for the card to get the 20k mile bonus and then cancel once you’ve got your first ticket, they are a fantastic reward.
Just dont use your free tickets for stupid little $200 puddle jumper flights.