Originally Posted by
Tom Elliott
Agree - this does change things somewhat. As Raffles @ HFP says, this is actually going to encourage more churn, not less as there's little point in keeping the card beyond the 2k spend for the bonus. I'll be putting more through the BAPP I think, and with a bigger 'off gold' season probably cycling SPG and Nectar a little more often.
SPG and Nectar are useless to me - I have a whole load of nectar points that I have no idea how to use, and I don't stay in hotels enough to warrant collecting points that would tie me to a specific chain. I think a Gold/BAPP cycle might be the way to go. Not as lucrative as it was, but ah well!