Originally Posted by
xiaoflyingbear
4. Fly less than 5 times in a year within US, to some travel attractions.
5. Monthly cost is $1000
My current objectives: Get an free round trip business class ticket from Chicago to China (Beijing) every 1.5 or 2 years.
Flyingbear
Not sure how much flight miles you'd earn, your $1k/month spend on credit card (CC) might not earn enough miles to support a RT business class award for TPAC every 2 years. You can probably pull if off the first year with sign-on bonus miles but don't expect to repeat it every year (that is, without churning, you cannot count on earning enough miles).
Originally Posted by
xiaoflyingbear
My plan:
1. Stick on American Airline (AA has a new line from ORD-Beijing).
2. Apply for a Citi AA card (For sign-up bonus, but can't churn any more).
3. Use SPG Card for every spend, then transfer to AA.
4. Be realistic, don't think of elite status and Lounge access.
Extra questions:
1. I have 14K UA Miles, 2K delta miles, how do I deal with that?
2. If my parents visit me from China, can I count their miles into my account?
Flyingbear
AA is an excellence choice; however you can also consider UA for ORD-PEK. There is an ongoing CC promotion with 50K UA miles, search the UA forum for details. Either one would be viable choices. If your parents don't have their own FFP needs, have them sign up for BA (if going with AA/OneWorld) or BD (if going with UA/StarAlliance) and credit their PEK-ORD flight miles there, as both BA and BD allows family accounts.
Last but not least, I hope you meant to redeem the biz class awards for one of the parents to travel in style. We, the young people, are a better fit to endure the lengthy transpacific flight in coach than the elderly.