Originally Posted by
birdseye
Million Mile Secrets has a good write up describing the
"Two Browser Trick."
Both husband and wife would need to apply for both an AA Visa and AA Amex at approximately the same time, then meet the minimum spend ($2500 each card), resulting in 105,000 AA miles each. Then book 3 off peak tickets to Hawaii on one account and 2 off peak tickets to Hawaii on the other account (you can book flights on Alaska using AA miles which helps). Then consider applying for hotel cards such as SPG Amex, Hyatt Visa, Marriott Visa, or Chase Sapphire Preferred to help cover hotel costs.
I thought the $2500 spend only is on the version of 45K bonus?
Could you provide a link on the 50K bonus that is only 2500 spend instead of 3000?
The key to OP's friend is the family has to be able to put in close to $10K spend in order to earn all the bonus miles they need. $10K spend in a full year is not too hard but if all in a 3 to 4 months period, that could be beyond the family's ability. Just a thought as this is a stickier point than getting new credit cards.