Originally Posted by
Uh Clem
... Looking for a card that will get me into lounges and 1st class tickets to Europe for charging $150k or less....
Originally Posted by
jn in ca
...Citi Prestige Card...
If you buy enough airline tickets to generate sufficient Flight Points $150,000 spending would generate 300,000 ThankYou Points. Flight Points are based on distance, you would need to buy tickets travelling 150,000 miles. The tickets don't need to be for you, but must be paid for with the Prestige Card. There are some other ways to earn more than one TYP per dollar, but none scale up to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars spending, unless you need to buy many longhaul revenue tickets.
300,000 TYP is worth $3,990 if redeem for airfare, or $4,800 if redeemed for AA/US flights. This isn't sufficient to buy transatlantic first class tickets, but it should cover business class.