Originally Posted by
npei
You should sign up for UA Visa card (Chase offers free 1st year annual fee, along with bonus 30k+ miles after first charge) and use to purchase UA tickets and get additional UA bonus miles, and bonus EQM (when booked via ual).
Actually you should consider signing up for both UA and CO cards. That way you get a 30K bonus twice. That possibility will surely go away when the two frequent flier programs merge, so get it while you can.
Originally Posted by
theTheme
Since there is so much experience on the FT forums, any advice for a new traveler? I've traveled quite a bit, but always as a poor student.
Now that you're no longer a student, you're making money. That means you're also spending it. So definitely put as much of your expenses as possible on a UA-branded card. There are several available, and although some of them have annual fees that seem steep, if you end up putting tens of thousands of dollars a year on the card, the cost per mile is very reasonable.