Originally Posted by
farbster
I neglected to answer the prior post, but I don't think they expect 5 free flights. That would be a tall order indeed!
I think I'm going to recommend that they look at flights with certain dates in mind and buy the tickets. I'm guessing they're restricted by Passover (last week March in 2013 - probably their kids spring break) and the start of school in August. Probably can't change their flights too much.
Probably the best cards for them to get for building up future points is the Sapphire Preferred and the Ink Bold. That way they can load up on United points or whatever and go somewhere else at a later date. If they buy their tix using the CSP, they can at least get the double points.
Does this sound like a decent plan?
Free isnt always Free. dont what biz they are in but I have friends that have CCs that gives them back 1-2-3% based on what was charged. They prefer this to getting pts or miles as they then can simply purchase whatever flights they want to when they want to
In your case 400k @ 2% = $8000 thats up to $1600 per tkt to TLV , so they might do better getting a 2%+ CC and put the $$ into an acct and dont touch it