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Old Oct 28, 2025 | 1:09 pm
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GrayAnderson
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Best CC for VIA Rail

Bit of a niche question. For the last decade, basically, CSR was the winner here - three points/dollar on travel, redeemable at 1.5 cents/point for future travel.

Well, Chase dropped a turd on that with re-farting the card, and I do use VIA a good bit (basically making YUL, YOW, and YYZ mostly-interchangeable). The fancy Alaska card would be a replacement, but BofA has temporarily put the kibosh on that (apparently because I stopped using a card that they gutted, they dropped the credit limit and wouldn't reconsider), so...what's the next-best option here? I'm not sure if the Hyatt card would get 2 points/dollar, there's Amtrak, or isn't there...some other issuer with 3 points/dollar on a broad-based "all travel" category?
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