GAY The Useless Travel Thread

fly said:
Unless you're racking up huge monthly charges, it doesn't much matter since you'll never generate enough points to matter.

It also depends on what kind of spend you'll be doing...
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The new job is going to be about 100% travel, so I'm going to be doing at least 8 flights (4 out and 4 in) a month, and 12-20 hotel days a month. Are you saying points are so irrelevant that nothing I do with that kind of travel will matter?

And that doesn't even account for the per diem spending while onsite.
 
Duke said:
Got one of those already. But do a carrier focused FFP program instead of binding it to a card and I'll be good is what you're saying?
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Yeah, pick an airline and stick to it. The status attained gets you tons of free shit and perks, usually, depending on the carrier.

When I had USAir platinum, we never paid for bags and got bumped to First 90% of the time, along with other cool shit.
 
Valve1138 said:
Yeah, pick an airline and stick to it. The status attained gets you tons of free shit and perks, usually, depending on the carrier.

When I had USAir platinum, we never paid for bags and got bumped to First 90% of the time, along with other cool shit.
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Cool. It's gonna depend a lot on what the company travel policy is, which i don't know yet. I'm hoping they are still enough into startup mode that it's flexible enough to allow for that.
 
Duke said:
The new job is going to be about 100% travel, so I'm going to be doing at least 8 flights (4 out and 4 in) a month, and 12-20 hotel days a month. Are you saying points are so irrelevant that nothing I do with that kind of travel will matter?

And that doesn't even account for the per diem spending while onsite.
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Then I would go for the Chase Sapphire Reserve card. Points redeem at .01/pt, or are worth 1.5c if used for travel. That's what I'm rocking now. It comes with a $400 annual fee, but that's easily offset by the travel credits of $300 per calendar year. What I did was buy a $300 SouthWest gift card in December, and then another $300 in January. I'm pretty sure they will also pay for your Global Entry fee.

Because of that card and a couple other things, @APRIL and I will have about 300,000 Chase points worth $4500 for travel. That's what we're using for our possible Alaska trip. ;)
 
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Duke said:
Cool. It's gonna depend a lot on what the company travel policy is, which i don't know yet. I'm hoping they are still enough into startup mode that it's flexible enough to allow for that.
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Plus it depends on if they have you paying for the travel or if they use a corp card to pay for your flights. If you're not paying for example a United flight with a United card then it's not worth getting the card.
 
fly said:
It may have been that the whole time, as I wrote that from memory. Actually that does sound right. You still get $600 in free travel. BTW, Uber counts as well.
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Yeah, the benefits look pretty decent if a lot of travel is run through them. Compared it to the Amex Gold travel card and it matches up well.
 
Valve1138 said:
You're frequent flyer program will get you more than an airline rewards card IMO.

Get an Amazon card.

Or an AMEX. Our platinum paid for itself and then some last year, plus the airport lounge access is sweet. And the Amex travel concierge could be handy for you.
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My AMEX card has been the best for rewards/points.
So
Many
Flights
Yo

And access to all the Amex Airport Lounges around the word is LIFEEEEEEE
 
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The group is driving down to TX so there's room for the gear and the coolers for the meat. I told them "I love you guys but I'm not road tripping from Colorado to TX in a vehicle full of Mexicans and guns. I've seen that movie and I know how it ends for you guys."
 
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