Originally Posted by hfly

It looked interesting for about 2 seconds. The bonus is possibly the least that I have seen for any regular card for an airline. The Barclays LH card regular gives 50k, currently gives 60k and at times it has been 80k. Is slightly cheaper at $89. Gives 2 rather than 3 miles per $. The Chase BA card currently gives 85k for a $5k spend, costs $95 and 3 points per $. The Flying Blue card is $89, gives 50k miles on a $2k spend. The US airline cards are a wilder spread with many different cards, at different annual fees, but even the lowest ranking give more bonus for less spend. Also many of these cards foreign carrier and domestic also give one some sort of possibility to help with elite qualification. Also I should add that all are from real financial institutions, not some weird FINTECH company that no one has ever heard of and which seems to be jobbing the banking off to a third party bank that I have never heard of. Love or hate Chase, Citi, BoA, Barclays or whatever, as least one knows what they are.

Honestly one would be better off getting a Citi Strata, paying the same fee, getting 70,000miles from Citi, and then transferring them to TK, as the card ALSO earns 3 miles per $, and the Strata does a lot more. For that matter the Cap 1 Venture is a better deal, even the Cap 1 Venture one isn't too shabby as it is a no fee card and one can earn 20k points on a $500 spend.

They really needed to launch this with a 100k bonus, 4 miles per $ and some sort of status enhancement (plus some other bells and whistles). The chance fo