May 14, 2014, 1:15 pm
Last edit by: rrgg
This thread is a continuation of the discussion posted here from 12.08.2012 - 5.13.2014: Barclays Arrival/Arrival Cards (1.05%/2.1% travel credits)
Current offer for Arrival Plus is 70K pts w/$5K spend & AF waived 1st year.
Barclays says that you earn “miles” but you’re actually earning cash back with the card since you can’t transfer your Barclays miles to airlines. But you can redeem them for statement credits at 0.5 cents per mile (poor value) or 1.05 cent per mile if you redeem for travel.
You get 5% of your miles back if you redeem for travel, so 40,000 miles gets you $400 towards travel and 2,000 miles back (5% of your miles back). You must have at least 10K 'miles' in your acct if you wish to redeem as a travel credit. 2500 'miles' can be redeemed for a stmt credit though.
If you want, you can redeem miles to cover a portion of a travel charge instead of the full amount. For example, if you have 80k miles and a $740 airline charge, you can choose to redeem just 70k to cover $700 of the charge.
You earn 2X miles on all purchases, so you’re effectively getting 2% cash back for each purchase. But since you get 5% of your miles back when you redeem for travel, this is effectively a 2.1% cash back card when miles are redeemed for travel.
This makes the Barclaycard Arrival PlusTM World Elite MasterCard® (with 2.1% cash back for travel) better than the Capital One Venture card which offers only 2 miles per $1 or 2% cash back, only if you spend $30k+ per year after first year, because Arrival Plus AF is $30 more than Venture.
If you receive a call from 302-255-8000 after applying for this or any other Barclay's card, it is a legit number! You can also call them back directly at 866-951-1437.
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Let's crowd source things that have counted towards travel redemptions that are not so obvious
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Don't forget travel purchase needs to be > $100 charge for 10K mile redemption
Airlines that post purchases of multiple tickets as one amount or split them:
One Amount
BA (USD based award ticket)
Multiple Transactions
UA (award)
DL (award)
Current offer for Arrival Plus is 70K pts w/$5K spend & AF waived 1st year.
Barclays says that you earn “miles” but you’re actually earning cash back with the card since you can’t transfer your Barclays miles to airlines. But you can redeem them for statement credits at 0.5 cents per mile (poor value) or 1.05 cent per mile if you redeem for travel.
You get 5% of your miles back if you redeem for travel, so 40,000 miles gets you $400 towards travel and 2,000 miles back (5% of your miles back). You must have at least 10K 'miles' in your acct if you wish to redeem as a travel credit. 2500 'miles' can be redeemed for a stmt credit though.
If you want, you can redeem miles to cover a portion of a travel charge instead of the full amount. For example, if you have 80k miles and a $740 airline charge, you can choose to redeem just 70k to cover $700 of the charge.
You earn 2X miles on all purchases, so you’re effectively getting 2% cash back for each purchase. But since you get 5% of your miles back when you redeem for travel, this is effectively a 2.1% cash back card when miles are redeemed for travel.
This makes the Barclaycard Arrival PlusTM World Elite MasterCard® (with 2.1% cash back for travel) better than the Capital One Venture card which offers only 2 miles per $1 or 2% cash back, only if you spend $30k+ per year after first year, because Arrival Plus AF is $30 more than Venture.
If you receive a call from 302-255-8000 after applying for this or any other Barclay's card, it is a legit number! You can also call them back directly at 866-951-1437.
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Regarding official company representatives
Note that there is an official procedure for company representatives to register themselves with the FlyerTalk Community Director and verify their credentials. When that process is completed, the username will turn green in posts, rather than the standard blue.
Anyone who does not appear in green has not followed this procedure. Those posts should be considered the same as any other user's posts. It is important to remember that the moderation team does not generally monitor the veracity of any posts; it is up to you to judge a poster's content and history yourself.
Let's crowd source things that have counted towards travel redemptions that are not so obvious
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Don't forget travel purchase needs to be > $100 charge for 10K mile redemption
- 9/11 Museum and Memorial - NYC
- Accuracy Limo (via Square, Salt Lake City, UT limo service)
- ACE Adventures (West Virginia White Water Rafting), had to call in to get it processed manually
- agoda.com
- AirAsia Flights (airasia.com)
- airbnb bookings
- airbnb GC purchased on United MPX site
- Alaska Airlines checked baggage fee $25 charge
- Amazing Bike Tours Thailand
- AA Gift Card
- American Airlines telephone booking (including booking fee)
- Amtrak train ticket >$25 (ALB-NYP)
- Amtrak train ticket >$25 (unknown destinations)
- Arrival+ Annual Fee
- Argosy Cruises (SEA, classified as RECREATION)
- Autoeurope.com
- BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) San Francisco
- Balloons over Bagan
- Bieber bus tickets
- Boston MBTA Charlie Card reload & Commuter Rail passes & tickets
- Burj Khalifa observation decks
- Buying Lifemiles from Avianca
- Capitaine Train Tickets (capitaine.com)
- Carmel Limo (NYC car service)
- carrentals.com
- cheaptickets.com hotel
- Chinese Visa Application Fees (had to call in. Credit showed up in account in 2 business days. See Post 912 and 921 for details)
- City Taxi (Tampa)
- CostcoTravel
- Cotai Waterjet (Hong Kong)
- CT Limo
- Daily Getaways purchase of HHonors points
- DB Bahn Trains Germany (bahn.de)
- Disneyland Hong Kong (Manual redemption required)
- DriveNow - all locations in EU/US
- Dublin Bus Tours Hop on, Hop off (Green)
- Eiffel Tower (manual redemption by phone allowed)
- Empire State Building tickets
- Enterprise rent-a-car, paid at the counter when returning the car (used Chase United Visa initially for primary coverage, but asked to pay with a different card when returning the car)
- Eurostar Train Tickets (eurostar.com)
- Europcar.com
- Expedia.com
- Hertz Rent-a-Car (booked on hertz.com)
- Hong Kong Airport Express Pass
- Hotel bookings through Rocketmiles (even refundable bookings or those tied to other promotions)
- Hotels.com
- Hotwire
- ItaliaRail (online booking agency for TrenItalia)
- LA Swamp Tours, Steamboat cruise, Haunted History Tours (New Orleans)
- Lahaina-Maui Ferry Tickets - booked online at www.go-lanai.com
- Las Vegas Show Booked through hotel
Las Vegas show tickets booked online (Mandalay Bay Box office) - Limo Charges - Two limo charges that I made in March PRIOR the the recent changes to what qualifies as "Travel" showed up as eligible travel charges. I guess with the changes to what's covered, and for how long, these got pulled back in.
- Lyft
- M-Life advance reservation deposit
- Montway Auto Transport (deposit)
- New York City MTA Subway Cards
- New York Waterways Ferry (between NJ and NYC)
- Ngong Ping 360 (Hong Kong)
- Norwegian Cruise Line purchase made from telephone order from vacationstogo.com
- Norwegian Cruise Line (deposits and payments)
- NS Hispeed Train Tickets (nshispeed.com)
- NYC Taxi
- Orbitz.com purchase
- ORCA card for Seattle area tolls (considered the very typical GOVERNMENT SERVICES NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED)
- Paris RATP Metro/VATP (buy 10-ticket pack for >$25 and save cost)
- PeruRail (Machu Picchu train)
- PMRF Beach Cottages (Kauai)
- Priceline
- Primetime Shuttle (Worked from LAX-SNA)
- rail europe on Travelocity
- rail JR Rail in Japan, load as tourist attraction, call in to get it credit (Post#938)
- Safari Helicopter Tour (Kauai)
- Sandals.com resort booking (unique vacations) was not redeemable last year. Is redeemable online now
- SEASTREAK LLC - NYC (Commuter Ferri)
- Singapore Cable Car
- Southwest $100 gift card
- Southwest Early Bird Check-in (billed separately from airfare charges)
- Spirit of NY Dinner Cruises - www.spiritcruises.com, which have cruises in several other cities as well.
- Starwood Vacation Ownership (SPG Timeshare) Westin Princeville Kauai (coded as Timeshare).
- St Pauls Cathedral (manual redemption by phone allowed)
- Super Shuttle (mixed, worked in SF when (billed SUPERSHUTTLE EXECUCARS), worked in Boston (SUPERSHUTTLE BOSTON), failed in LA (SUPERSHUTTLE), Worked in Cancun.
- Taxi in Zürich
- Top of the Rock tickets - NYC
- Trenitalia Online
- Trimet (Portland OR public transportation)
- Trip Advisor Rental
- TurboJET (Hong Kong)
- Uber
- Uber GC through MPX $100 (re-confirmed 11/1/2018, using Arrival Premier)
- United Baggage Fee
- Universal Studio Orlando tickets (had to call in)
- Viator (sightseeing/tours)
- Victoria Clipper (passenger ferry)
- Wedding at the Stratosphere's Chapel in the Clouds (billed as stratosphere)
- Windsor Castle (manual redemption by phone allowed)
- Wine purchases from different wine tasting rooms
- WMATA (Washington DC Metro) - [[COLOR="Red"]reconfirmed 10/5/15]
- Zipcar
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Partial redemptions are possible - however you cannot redeem against that charge again. So if you have a $500 charge and you spend 40K points against it, you cannot redeem 10K points for the remaining $100 of that charge. - www.b-europe.com (SNCB rail)
- Amtrak (possibly due <$25 charge)
- Blue Water Rafting. Merchant category "Recreation Services -- Not elsewhere classified"
- Brazil airline GOL booked online codes as DIRECT MARKETING/DIRECT MARKETERS--NOT ELESWH ..
- Broadmoor Hotel Food and Beverage (Colorado Spring, CO)
- budgetair.co.uk (charged >$200)
- Car2go
- De Palm Tours, Aruba (classified as Recreation. Called Barclay twice.)
- Description: ZERVE *CA WHALES Merchant Category: THEATRICAL PRODUCERS (EXCEPT MOTION PICTURES), TICKET AGENCIES...Tickets to whale watching tour purchased over the phone.
- Evan Evans Sightseeing tours (UK based)- http://www.evanevanstours.co.uk
- Fastrak tag autoload for San Francisco bridge tolls ($25)
- Global Entry
- Gotobus.com Long Distance Buses, ~$100
- Homeaway.com, posts as real estate. Barclays said they'd make a one-time exception but future purchases won't count as travel.
- Hostelbookers.com deposit (maybe the charge which is >$25 will count?)
- Hotels.com Gift Card
- IHG points and cash hotel redemption
- Malaysian Overnight Train KUL-SIN (ktmb.com.my)
- Monterey Aquarium
- Parking at DCA - $136 (7/9/19)
- Parking at HSV ($96 in parking at Huntsville International Airport)
- Parking at IAH (Houston Intercontinental - on airport) -$76 (PARKING LOTS AND GARAGES)
- Parking at LAS
- Parking at LGA $204
- Parking at Port Imperial, Weehawken, NJ
- Parking at SNA (John Wayne Airport)
- San Francisco Clipper Card public transit (autoload from website)
- Skyjump at Stratosphere Hotel LV $150 (01/14) - not charged by hotel.
- Space Needle and Chihuly Garden Tickets
- Starwood points purchase (BUSINESS SERVICES NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED)
- Taxi Magic /Curb- Taxi service
- Thello train (France-Italy night train, codes as rail-freight)
- Trenitalia (both online and in stations, posts as rail-freight)
- UBER eGift Card (bought through the UBER app) for $100 - Not coded as "travel," so couldn't redeem online and they wouldn't do it over the phone, either.
Airlines that post purchases of multiple tickets as one amount or split them:
One Amount
BA (USD based award ticket)
Multiple Transactions
UA (award)
DL (award)
Barclays Arrival Plus, now 70K w/$5k spend
Aug 23, 2014, 6:28 pm
#991
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 4,166
Intereting experience with Barclaycard customer service today. In looking at one of the Barclaycard USA blogs, somebody complained that they had wanted the world elite card and had received the world master card although it has a chip. The lights went on in my head. The World Mastercard is the arrival card with no annual fee or so I believe. So apparently arrival cards without annual fees exist with chips.
Call customer service and the first csr who probably works with dozens of cards said no, not available. I asked to speak to a manager who also claims not available. But then I said okay send me the re-designed card and we'll see what happens. Don't understand why one person can get a chipped card and somebody else can't. (Of course she told me that all cardholders would have a chipped card by October 2015 but I told her that's a year and a half away).
We'll see what happens but is there anybody here who has the Arrival World Mastercard, not the elite mastercard, with a chip?
Call customer service and the first csr who probably works with dozens of cards said no, not available. I asked to speak to a manager who also claims not available. But then I said okay send me the re-designed card and we'll see what happens. Don't understand why one person can get a chipped card and somebody else can't. (Of course she told me that all cardholders would have a chipped card by October 2015 but I told her that's a year and a half away).
We'll see what happens but is there anybody here who has the Arrival World Mastercard, not the elite mastercard, with a chip?
Aug 26, 2014, 9:18 am
#992
Join Date: May 2010
Location: SoCal
Programs: SPG PLAT, AA Plat (2MM), BA, UA/CO
Posts: 442
Problems redeeming
Has anyone experienced technical problems redeeming recently? I've been trying for the last couple of days, using different browsers, but my redemptions are not going through. Thought I'd check in here before calling. Thanks.
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Xlax
Aug 26, 2014, 10:08 am
#993
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: MDT
Programs: DL, AA
Posts: 390
I just did one about 30 mins ago with no issues.
Aug 26, 2014, 10:20 am
#994
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold
Posts: 3,677
I did one for $25 a few days ago, and the 25K rewards points were deducted, but the $ amount due on my statement hasn't changed, and under "activity since last statement" it says "no activity".
Aug 26, 2014, 1:24 pm
#996
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 304
Any concern over the revised T&Cs we all got in the mail recently? Specifically refering to the credit information section:
I will readily admit I don't read all the T&Cs of my cards, but I assumed this was already being done. Wonder what this change is...
We are updating the "Credit Information" section of your Cardmember Agreement to notify you that we may, from time to time, obtain employment and income data from third parties to assist us in the ongoing administration of your account.
Aug 26, 2014, 7:17 pm
#997
Suspended
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 37
I had a weird experience applying for this card. I applied last Wednesday and have been checking the application status almost daily since then. This morning it says I was declined. I Googled the recon number and called it and as soon as the guy pulled up my application he said he had to transfer me to the account security team. I spoke with the guy from account security who asked me the same questions that were on the application I filled out but he also asked some weird side questions related to them. When he asked my birthdate he also asked "so how old does that make you?" After he asked for my address he asked "what is the nearest cross to that address?"
Not sure what the heck happened with my application that caused this to happen. In any case, as soon as he was done his questions and weird related questions he said I was approved with a $15,000 CL.
Not sure what the heck happened with my application that caused this to happen. In any case, as soon as he was done his questions and weird related questions he said I was approved with a $15,000 CL.
Aug 27, 2014, 12:01 am
#998
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 140
I have a Barclay's Arrival card and want to cancel before the annual fee post in October. I got the card last year and got the bonus $400 toward travel or $200 statement credit. I don't intend to travel anytime soon, is there any hotels or car rental places (or any place that are categorize at travel) that sells giftcards so i can redeem my bonus for full value.
I prefer store giftcards like BBY, Macy, etc.
I prefer store giftcards like BBY, Macy, etc.
Aug 27, 2014, 8:46 am
#999
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 3,537
I had a weird experience applying for this card. I applied last Wednesday and have been checking the application status almost daily since then. This morning it says I was declined. I Googled the recon number and called it and as soon as the guy pulled up my application he said he had to transfer me to the account security team. I spoke with the guy from account security who asked me the same questions that were on the application I filled out but he also asked some weird side questions related to them. When he asked my birthdate he also asked "so how old does that make you?" After he asked for my address he asked "what is the nearest cross to that address?"
Not sure what the heck happened with my application that caused this to happen. In any case, as soon as he was done his questions and weird related questions he said I was approved with a $15,000 CL.
Not sure what the heck happened with my application that caused this to happen. In any case, as soon as he was done his questions and weird related questions he said I was approved with a $15,000 CL.
Aug 27, 2014, 9:07 am
#1000
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: MDT
Programs: DL, AA
Posts: 390
I have a Barclay's Arrival card and want to cancel before the annual fee post in October. I got the card last year and got the bonus $400 toward travel or $200 statement credit. I don't intend to travel anytime soon, is there any hotels or car rental places (or any place that are categorize at travel) that sells giftcards so i can redeem my bonus for full value.
I prefer store giftcards like BBY, Macy, etc.
I prefer store giftcards like BBY, Macy, etc.
Aug 27, 2014, 10:29 am
#1002
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: San Antonio
Programs: AS MVP
Posts: 2,276
Aug 27, 2014, 12:22 pm
#1004
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: SF
Programs: UA, VX, QF, EY, VA
Posts: 756
You probably just had a high IDscore. IDscores are fairly non-sensical. They store things like IP addresses used on previous apps, email addresses, phone numbers, etc.
So if you applied from your home computer with IP X and then later apply from a mobile device on LTE with IP Y, your app gets assigned a higher risk score. If a bunch of these factors add up to some threshold, your app gets held for security purposes.
Aug 27, 2014, 12:57 pm
#1005
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 731
Just redeemed miles for purchases made with American Airlines award telephone booking. It's nice getting our flights covered by AAdvantage miles, and the taxes / fees covered by Arrival miles!