Originally Posted by
edlin303
I didn't see it mentioned yet, but have you considered the Citi PremierPass Elite card? If you use it to book your flights, you get points for the miles you fly. Those points, when matched with spending, become Thank You points. So if you buy tickets for a 10,000 mile flight, and spend $10k on your card, you have 20k TYP which can be redeemed for a domestic flight worth up to $400 that you will in turn earn miles on. For some business/first class awards you can get up to $0.03 per point value.
I won't bore you with the details in case you already know about it, but I would consider it and check out the credit card forums for details on the fixed price awards you can get with TYP.
Whoa, really? Is that true with every airline? I get points on miles flown as well as the cost of the ticket? Is that true both ways? (so on a 500 mile r/t flight, 500 TYP going, 500 returning) That's great for international travel. Is it a 1:1 ratio of TYP to miles on every airline? Does it transfer to FF miles, or just tickets that they issue?
To make sure I get this straight, Using United Visa (if I'm a United FF member), if I spend 300 on a ticket from Chicago to NYC (800 miles), I get a total of 2200 miles - 600 from the ticket, and 1600 from the flight itself.
With this Citipass, I would get 1900 TY points (300 from the ticket, 1600 for the miles flown) + 1600 for the flight, right?
That would definitely be worth it IF I could redeem it for miles. If it can only be redeemed for tickets, it would be less worthwhile because I would essentially be building two parallel FF accounts that can't be combined.