Which airlines have the nicest/ugliest frequent flyer cards?
Jul 4, 2016, 1:37 am
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Which airlines have the nicest/ugliest frequent flyer cards?
Off the top of my head:
The new Cathay Marco Polo are pretty nice if you like minimalism:
Qantas also has great ones, definitely one of my favorites:
Air Canada's top-tier Super Elite cards are well designed too.
Etihad's are also good-looking with a neat design:
TAME from Ecuador is pretty great
Alaska has one of the ugliest ones I've seen, thank god they're updating them for next year:
EgyptAir's is hideous:
Air China's top-tier card looks really tacky:
Feel free to chime in with your own thoughts!
The new Cathay Marco Polo are pretty nice if you like minimalism:
Qantas also has great ones, definitely one of my favorites:
Air Canada's top-tier Super Elite cards are well designed too.
Etihad's are also good-looking with a neat design:
TAME from Ecuador is pretty great
Alaska has one of the ugliest ones I've seen, thank god they're updating them for next year:
EgyptAir's is hideous:
Air China's top-tier card looks really tacky:
Feel free to chime in with your own thoughts!
Jul 4, 2016, 7:25 pm
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Jul 5, 2016, 10:34 am
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Off the top of my head:
The new Cathay Marco Polo are pretty nice if you like minimalism:
Qantas also has great ones, definitely one of my favorites:
Air Canada's top-tier Super Elite cards are well designed too.
Etihad's are also good-looking with a neat design:
TAME from Ecuador is pretty great
Alaska has one of the ugliest ones I've seen, thank god they're updating them for next year:
EgyptAir's is hideous:
Air China's top-tier card looks really tacky:
Feel free to chime in with your own thoughts!
The new Cathay Marco Polo are pretty nice if you like minimalism:
Qantas also has great ones, definitely one of my favorites:
Air Canada's top-tier Super Elite cards are well designed too.
Etihad's are also good-looking with a neat design:
TAME from Ecuador is pretty great
Alaska has one of the ugliest ones I've seen, thank god they're updating them for next year:
EgyptAir's is hideous:
Air China's top-tier card looks really tacky:
Feel free to chime in with your own thoughts!
The one that gets me the most miles the fastest.
Jul 8, 2016, 8:07 am
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some cards get much uglier after you carry them in your wallet for a while!
The Southwest Airlines card and the Hertz card are the ugliest in my wallet, because in both those cases they didn't send it to me, I had to print it out, and as a paper printout cut to size it gets mangled over time.
And some plastic cards I've had for a while (United doesn't send me a new Premier Silver card every year, I just have to keep the same one year to year) get scuffed, and that point they're ugly, even if they weren't ugly when I got them.
And some plastic cards I've had for a while (United doesn't send me a new Premier Silver card every year, I just have to keep the same one year to year) get scuffed, and that point they're ugly, even if they weren't ugly when I got them.
Jul 12, 2016, 1:01 pm
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AC is pretty awful. Too busy and poorly branded...Altitude/Aeroplan/*G/SuperElite/100K/1 Million Miles. Obviously no one with any design experience came up with that. TAME and CX MPC are the nicest of the ones you've shown.
Jul 12, 2016, 1:10 pm
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I've never had an airline card I cared to look at.
Had some nice-looking hotel cards over the years....cards where one of their tropical properties adorns the front of the card.
Had some nice-looking hotel cards over the years....cards where one of their tropical properties adorns the front of the card.