THANK YOU THANK YOU! 670,000 Points later.
Mar 12, 2012, 2:06 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 8
THANK YOU THANK YOU! 670,000 Points later.
So ten months ago I didn't own 1 mile/point of any kind. Fast forward to now and I have close to 670,000 of them. I could not have do it with out the help of this community. I have had a 10+ day Vacation paid for (flight/hotel) and 4 other flights all taken care because of the points I have earned. So again, thank you to everyone. Especially the people that take time to explain things to noobs like me. I paid/pay the cards off in full each month so I did not pay any interest. I have since cancelled the AA Citi Visa + Amex because it was coming time to pay the annual fee.
Run down of my points for the past year:
75k AA Citi Visa
75K AA Citi Business Amex
75K AA Citi Visa (Wife)
75K AA Citi Amex (Wife)
50K Southwest Premier
50K Southwest Plus
50K Southwest Premier (Wife)
50K Southwest Plus (Wife)
30K Chase Freedom
30K Chase Freedom (Wife)
50K Chase Ink Business
50K Amex Gold Business
Credit score when I started 650+ Now 730+
Please move to appropriate thread if this is not the place.
Run down of my points for the past year:
75k AA Citi Visa
75K AA Citi Business Amex
75K AA Citi Visa (Wife)
75K AA Citi Amex (Wife)
50K Southwest Premier
50K Southwest Plus
50K Southwest Premier (Wife)
50K Southwest Plus (Wife)
30K Chase Freedom
30K Chase Freedom (Wife)
50K Chase Ink Business
50K Amex Gold Business
Credit score when I started 650+ Now 730+
Please move to appropriate thread if this is not the place.
Mar 12, 2012, 2:30 pm
#4
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Home
Programs: AA, Delta, UA & thanks to FTers for my PC Gold!
Posts: 7,676
Mar 12, 2012, 2:54 pm
#5
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Houston
Programs: SW, UA, IHG Plat, Hilton, Marriott
Posts: 91
So you can apply to both the Premier and Plus versions of the Southwest credit card and get 50k offer from each? If so does this apply to other cards as well? Sorry I'm a noob at this.
EDIT: Nevermind, just found out the Plus is the business version of the card.
EDIT: Nevermind, just found out the Plus is the business version of the card.
Mar 12, 2012, 4:56 pm
#10
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,173
now
now you need to get compainion passes for SW...transfer points to a hotel program that you can transfer to SW to get the last 10K needed. The companion pass will double the value of your SW points.
and congrats for using a bunch for your vacation.....after all that is the point.
Many people just do massive app-o-ramas to collect points.
Success is in the redemption, not the collection.
and congrats for using a bunch for your vacation.....after all that is the point.
Many people just do massive app-o-ramas to collect points.
Success is in the redemption, not the collection.
Mar 12, 2012, 5:01 pm
#11
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 78
Miles used for hotel rooms?
Just curious. Which miles did you use for the hotel rooms? Did you get a good value per mile?
Even though my Southwest or AA miles came at zero cost and minimal effort, I just can't bring myself to spend them on anything other than flights because of their value.
Even though my Southwest or AA miles came at zero cost and minimal effort, I just can't bring myself to spend them on anything other than flights because of their value.
Mar 12, 2012, 5:13 pm
#12
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,933
It sounds like a good deal of these were on your wife's accounts. No wonder that sounds like number, because it's for two people applying for cards, not just one.
(And in many of these programs, you can't combine points or miles from two people's accounts. So they really are separate.)
There's nothing wrong with what you and your wife earned, or posting about it, it's just that you didn't make it clear (until/unless someone reads the individual card app notes) that it was 670,000 across two people.
(Until I read on, I couldn't understand how you'd gotten 670,000 all by yourself that quickly. And, of course, it turned out to be that you hadn't, after all.)
Mar 12, 2012, 5:20 pm
#13
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,933
Just curious. Which miles did you use for the hotel rooms? Did you get a good value per mile?
Even though my Southwest or AA miles came at zero cost and minimal effort, I just can't bring myself to spend them on anything other than flights because of their value.
Even though my Southwest or AA miles came at zero cost and minimal effort, I just can't bring myself to spend them on anything other than flights because of their value.
Similarly, there's an AMEX GOLD on there. AMEX can transfer to several hotel programs.
Finally, in case you're not aware, there's still a way to transfer AA miles to Hilton HHonors points:
redeemaamiles.points.com
That can often (though not always) be a much better value than redeeming the miles directly for hotels. It is a transfer combination that's been rumored to be taken away for quite a while now, but seems to keep working as long as you know about that site.
Mar 12, 2012, 6:51 pm
#14
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: MKE
Programs: WN CP, Hilton Gold
Posts: 205
now you need to get compainion passes for SW...transfer points to a hotel program that you can transfer to SW to get the last 10K needed. The companion pass will double the value of your SW points.
and congrats for using a bunch for your vacation.....after all that is the point.
Many people just do massive app-o-ramas to collect points.
Success is in the redemption, not the collection.
and congrats for using a bunch for your vacation.....after all that is the point.
Many people just do massive app-o-ramas to collect points.
Success is in the redemption, not the collection.
If I have 110k points in Chase UR, could I simply transfer to a hotel program and then to RR to get a CP?
Edit: Nevermind, found out that Hyatt and Marriot are partners.
Mar 12, 2012, 9:35 pm
#15
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: New York
Programs: AA, BA, CO
Posts: 402
Wouldn't "we have" be much more accurate than "I have"?
It sounds like a good deal of these were on your wife's accounts. No wonder that sounds like number, because it's for two people applying for cards, not just one.
(And in many of these programs, you can't combine points or miles from two people's accounts. So they really are separate.)
There's nothing wrong with what you and your wife earned, or posting about it, it's just that you didn't make it clear (until/unless someone reads the individual card app notes) that it was 670,000 across two people.
(Until I read on, I couldn't understand how you'd gotten 670,000 all by
yourself that quickly. And, of course, it turned out to be that you hadn't, after all.)
It sounds like a good deal of these were on your wife's accounts. No wonder that sounds like number, because it's for two people applying for cards, not just one.
(And in many of these programs, you can't combine points or miles from two people's accounts. So they really are separate.)
There's nothing wrong with what you and your wife earned, or posting about it, it's just that you didn't make it clear (until/unless someone reads the individual card app notes) that it was 670,000 across two people.
(Until I read on, I couldn't understand how you'd gotten 670,000 all by
yourself that quickly. And, of course, it turned out to be that you hadn't, after all.)
Why are you surprised? I netted this last 11 months with 1.5 million miles/points. Actually two people. But that's 750k each.
Other than opening cards i also too advantage of fidelity, amex authorized users, as well as amex 100k bonuses for biz card and 75k bonuses for personals.
Anyway, the points is, 600k a person in a year is very doable. Hoping for some good offers to start rolling out for this year. Really looking for BA 100k like they did a year ago.