[Speculation] What Do You Think of BofA AS Credit Cards?
Oct 28, 2022, 11:12 am
#16
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SEA, but up and down the coast a lot
Programs: Oceanic Airlines Gold Elite
Posts: 20,397
https://www.truist.com/small-busines...lta-debit-card
Barclays is just this "hey, we'll take the odds and sods leftovers" company in the cobrand space like Synchrony (they're tied up with AA because they inherited business from US). Which I mean, OK, great, what's their motivation to outbid BofA given they have nothing in PNW markets?
Oct 28, 2022, 11:35 am
#17
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: PDX, OGG or between the two
Programs: AS 75K
Posts: 2,868
My AS BofA is my least-valued card. I really only got it for the 60K bonus miles and discounted AS lounge day passes. 3X on travel purchases? Yawn.... I can get that with pretty much any other card (and usually with redemption multipliers on top of that). I did enjoy the half-off lounge passes at AS lounges but AS put an end to that at the ones I frequent in SEA & PDX. The free bag thing has no value to me as an AS elite. I generally use Chase cards and am very happy with them. I guess the joke is on me though because I see a lot of people using their AS cards and a lot of friends/family have and use them a lot.
Oct 28, 2022, 11:49 am
#18
Join Date: May 2005
Location: SEA
Programs: AS; Hyatt Globalist; Hilton Gold; NEXUS
Posts: 979
My AS BofA is my least-valued card. I really only got it for the 60K bonus miles and discounted AS lounge day passes. 3X on travel purchases? Yawn.... I can get that with pretty much any other card (and usually with redemption multipliers on top of that). I did enjoy the half-off lounge passes at AS lounges but AS put an end to that at the ones I frequent in SEA & PDX. The free bag thing has no value to me as an AS elite. I generally use Chase cards and am very happy with them. I guess the joke is on me though because I see a lot of people using their AS cards and a lot of friends/family have and use them a lot.
To answer the OP's question - my view of the BoA AS credit cards is fairly dim from both the hard and soft product perspective. This is certainly in contrast to the number of AS Visas I see whipped out in various stores - presumably they do well with the mainstream crowd.
Oct 30, 2022, 5:13 pm
#20
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: SFO
Programs: UA 1K, AA EXP, Hyatt Glob, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Plat, Total Wine & More Reserve
Posts: 4,531
Oct 30, 2022, 5:24 pm
#21
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Maui
Programs: AS 75K
Posts: 199
I have 2
My wife and I use them about once a year each, to book a companion fare ticket. Occasionally we used them to get into the lounge, but aside from that they stay in the sock drawer.
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Oct 30, 2022, 5:43 pm
#22
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: PDX, OGG or between the two
Programs: AS 75K
Posts: 2,868
