Originally Posted by
PiGuy
Seems to me like best options would be the BA Visa card with 50k bonus points or one of the CapitalOne Venture cards.
Traveling to Europe for an extended trip starting next month and would love to avoid the surcharge. I fly AA mostly and as I understand it I can redeem BA miles for domestic AA flights very easily or use the BA miles to fly within Europe without paying the big fees for flying internationally on BA.
Primary card is the Citi AA MasterCard and would likely probably revert to that after the trip so this card probably wouldn't need to remain my primary.
All of the options you mentioned add one more "net" annual fee. Will you use the new card enough for that to be worth it?
Chase Priority Club Select Visa has no "net" annual fee. Ie, they have a $49 annual fee after the first year, but give you free notel night certificate every time they charge it.
(Chase also has a no-forex Hyatt card, but I don't know where it fits with "net" annual fees.)