fti

Approved with $7,600 credit limit. Will be easy to spend $2K for the 100K miles.

Card coming soon in the mail.

brasov02

Apparently, as noted in a previous post, it's possible but you will need to call to book this itinerary. Everytime I try to find an award flight from PDX to anywere, even a simple gateway like SFO, I just get a message saying that "BA or any of its partners don not fly this route", which is not true as their partners do fly this route. I'm just wondering why they don't come up and why you need to call to get such a simple route.

Mr. Bean

AS does not show up on the BA engine online. You have to call to find availability.

sunil

Called to activate my new card and automatically got my first year feee waived w/o asking. Cool !

nwa330

My wife received her card today. $13500 credit limit.

Buenos Aires here we come!

garygleck

I applied November 5 and have heard the two week tape for two weeks (almost). I called the 888 number and they said the concern was my other cards. They suggested cancelling one and the problem would be taken care of...Today I received an e-mail welcoming to BA Exec. I presume I will see a card shortly since the original info was that one would be enrolled if accepted...

moondog

My reading on the situation is quite a bit more upbeat.

-AA+BA awards (TATL) price out the same as BA only awards, and I did find a few online without much effort
-I can only assume that AS flights are also subject to the same policy, but can't say for sure because I don't feel like picking up the phone

What's more, AA and AS only itineraries are certainly permissible as well (and, I think you can combine these using code shares).

Problems ONLY arise when you want to use 2 non-BA carriers on the same award,... which is where we PDX people get the shaft because it is difficult for us to get to Asia without triggering the distance based award chard, which isn't nearly as kind as AA's.

Then, there's the added problem of AS's award inventory being extremely tight of late (i.e. PDX-SFO is an astoundingly difficult redemption).

All that having been said, YVR isn't so far away and there are a variety of cheap ways to get there (bad news here: looong layover on the return if you fly back on JL and connect to Horizon; CX is better).

A strategy I'm contemplating is to use BA miles for one direction and AA miles for the other (twice or more, assuming I can get other family members as well). This buys quite a bit of flexibility because many of us often travel through SFO and LAX during the course of our normal lives.

In closing, I'm still happy to have these miles headed my way and don't anticipate having much trouble putting them to good use (my back is also thankful that it won't be spending much time in DL Y to NRT next year, which is really a dreadful product in case you haven't had a chance to try out the 763 yet).

broog

1-888-245-0625

Surgee

Agreed, this thread is getting unwieldy. Mods, perhaps we can have a separate "how to redeem 100K BA miles" thread?

Keeping us on topic of the card:
-No chase history.
-denied "multiple applications for credit" (I have several cards, and a recent Citi pull)
-called, discussed my excellent credit history and (real) desire to move to chase.
-approved.

There seem to be several reports of the annual fee being waived upon calling. Has anyone confirmed that they WILL be charged the annual fee?? Or does it seem to be waived for everyone so far?

Night Flyer

Chase makes it hard to figure out on its website but the main difference between the Signature and Platinum cards should be that the Signature card has no pre-set spending limitation, whereas the Platinum card is restricted to the applicable credit line. The Signature card would still have a revolving limitation set at the assigned credit line.

yuel

I ask about the fee being waived and the csr told me no, so i will have to try again, and hope not to get a new csr

bsb21

Just called and it was declined, because income could not be verified from credit report.

I remember that a couple of other people also mentioned this.

What the heck does it mean and how do you go about proving to Chase that you household income is indeed what you listed.

nwa330

No such thing. I look at 20-40 credit reports a day and I can tell you income is not in them. 80% of the time they don't even list your employer. How would the credit agencies know how much you make. You were denied probably due to DTI. You didn't state enough income to support all your reported debts.

Jeeves

Both my wife and I applied on Nov. 6th and received our cards today. The envelopes had a Westerville, OH return address.

Any idea as to when the 3-month period begins for spending the $2,000. Is your statement date tied to your activation date. Just curious.

bsb21

Here is the scoop:

-Fico 724
-College Student
-Chase CC holder for 2 years, always pay in full, never late
-Chase doubled my limit over the course of the 2 years, without my request
-Household income 85K, Chase customers for many years

My banker back home was encouraging me to apply for a 2nd card several months ago and told me that he would personally request a reconsideration if I was denied (I didnt apply because there was no signup bonus ) I will ask him to send a letter when I fly home next week.