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Amex business checking
Deposit $5k for 120 days.
Make 10 transactions.
Earn 60k MR points. Move to avios for 1 saver first ticket to or from Europe.

Amex biz platinum 160k MR points for $15k spend in 90 days. $695 fee, $400 in Dell credits, $200 in airline fees, other savings

Wait on bonus transfers and get 25% + more avios or Air France miles.

Can also transfer to Delta, Virgin Atlantis, Iberia, Qatari
This double play will net me over 320k Air France miles or enough for 3 round trip first class tickets to any Air France destination in Europe. 2 first class Miami to Tahiti. Appx $12k in plane tickets. Have to book in advance to get saver level awards.

You dont need an EIN, you can use your SS#.
Amex Offers 230K Bonus for New Business Platinum and Business Checking [YYMV] - Miles to Memories

Churning for free or discounted travel is my side hustle. Its how we can afford to travel the way we do.

 

This one is legit. I don’t buy much gas but I burn this up for the restaurant deals.

 

chase ink cash is 90k points = $900 cash on $6k spend in 3 months. referral bonus fo rme if you want any ink cards, pm me
picked up close to 800k amex MR points this year, paid for our flights to/from Europe this summer with quite a few left over. I stockpile all currencies so I can find best option when we do need tickets. daughter is in school in London so virgin atlantic miles from MR points helps with those tickets

 

discount travel options here. buy free hotel night certificates for Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, even get paid for letting others book your hotel room in their name so they get credit for nights stayed, buy companion passes for airline tickets, etc

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We use the AMEX Delta skymiles card. We build miles pretty freaking fast.

 

that is good but nothing builds balances like bonuses. if I'm not working on a minimum spend I know I am cheating myself. And no, it doesn't hurt your credit. Between "business" and personal cards, I usually get 6 - 12 credit cards a year on average to cover airfare and hotel bills when possible. More if I have big items I have to buy. spend some on annual fees but cards I keep are worth annual fee due to free night each anniversary. $95 fee gets me cert for free nights that I have used to book rooms for UF games.

 

And mostly all tax free. I just fell under 5/24 threshold myself since they implemented that rule. Been feasting on amex biz cards without the lifetime language and BOA Alaska biz cards. Hawaiin biz card for 75k miles netted 3 pairs of Maui Jim sunglasses for xmas gifts. 25k/ MJ cert and get any MJ glasses for cert. Over $1k in sunglasses

 

What's the 5/24 threshold you guys are mentioning?

I've never chased miles, but always focused on cash rewards. I'm on track for about $3k this year.

 

Chase will not approve new cards if you have over 5 new personal accounts within 24 months.

 

Same. The problem with miles is that their value can change when the corporate entity wants to change them.

 

Earn em and burn em. They can certainly depreciate and AA shut me down and took 800k + miles I had built up. Citibank sent me offers, I met terms, got miles, then AA went on a purge and closed all AA accounts that had earned more than 3 bonuses in 24 months. Still don't understand how that was legal when citi bought miles from AA and gave them to me and I only used them for me or immediate family. I know I was one of tend of thousands they closed and likely wiped millions of $$ worth of liability off their books.

 

I don't have a job where that's always possible, so I'd rather just collect the cash rewards.

 

I struggle using my miles these days. I have close to 600k between AA and Chase. With young kids my traveling options are somewhat limited.

 

Yeah. You can literally book the same flight and the mileage value is all over the map.

 

Correct. Not that different than using cash cheap today, 2x as much next week. It's why you get best value booking ahead. You can also get big differences depending on what miles you use. I used air france milesvto fly wife home from London on Delta metal. Deltavwanted 185k miles for same seat I got for 57.5k air france miles.

Using avios on short AA flights is great value. Caribbean, Costa Rica, Belize we use avios to book AA flights.