Mar 12, 2014, 3:53 pm
Last edit by: muji
As an additional resource for these cards see this thread: Alaska Airlines Visa
PERSONAL CARDS
30k mile offer, $75 AF, $1k spend: https://www.bankofamerica.com/credit...s-credit-card/
+2k miles if done with onboard paper application
30k mile offer with $100 credit and fee for companion ticket waived the first year, $75 AF, $1k spend: https://secure.bankofamerica.com/app...aignid=4020594
link no longer working
30k mile offer with $100 credit, $75 AF, $1k spend: https://secure.bankofamerica.com/app...aignid=4009277
link no longer working
If you are applying for a personal Alaska card, and are not an expert on applying for Alaska cards STOP, don't apply yet.
Instead, read this post. Doing that first may save you a huge amount of wasted time and frustration.
A few people in the Alaska Airlines forum have in the past received personally targeted, single-use links for a 50k offer
when they opt-in to "Partner Offers" in their Mileage Plan account preferences.
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BUSINESS CARDS
30k mile offer, $75 AF, $1k spend, no foreign transaction fees:
https://www.bankofamerica.com/smallb...-credit-card//
Note: There are two different earning formats for the business card, which you choose when you apply:
To avoid billing confusion later, make sure you choose the Individual Level Earning Plan if you are not going to have employee cards under the same account as your account.
Also see the Applying for Business Credit Cards [Consolidated] thread (not-BofA-specific) for general tips on applying for business cards.
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Reconsideration # (for personal cards):
1-800-354-0401 (8am-7pm ET Mon-Fri) direct, referring agent from another BofA line called it their "credit department"
1-866-811-4108 from the Alaska Airlines Visa thread post 949
Business card Recon Line:
866-695-6598 (8-7 EST M-F from what I was told)
Biz card status line: 888 663 6262
Biz Card credit analyst line: 877 665 5022, 877 665 5023 (seems to be non-working number)
Check application status online here:
https://www.bankofamerica.com/credit...status-form.go
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Credit Enquiries for Personal cards come from BofA. Enquiries for business cards come from FIA. Credit bureaus usually merge enquiries from the same requester made on the same day. Enquiries from BofA and FIA will not be merged.
When do the initial bonus miles post? You will get the miles after the statement closes for the cycle in which you meet your minimum spend. Usually AS points show up the Sunday evening after your statement closes, but sometimes it takes an additional week.
If there's a statement credit, when does it post?
It seems to be batch-processed. It will post automatically. Can be on the same statement or the next statement. It does not appear to be based on the statement close date.
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PERSONAL CARDS
30k mile offer, $75 AF, $1k spend: https://www.bankofamerica.com/credit...s-credit-card/
+2k miles if done with onboard paper application
30k mile offer with $100 credit and fee for companion ticket waived the first year, $75 AF, $1k spend: https://secure.bankofamerica.com/app...aignid=4020594
link no longer working
30k mile offer with $100 credit, $75 AF, $1k spend: https://secure.bankofamerica.com/app...aignid=4009277
link no longer working
If you are applying for a personal Alaska card, and are not an expert on applying for Alaska cards STOP, don't apply yet.
Instead, read this post. Doing that first may save you a huge amount of wasted time and frustration.
A few people in the Alaska Airlines forum have in the past received personally targeted, single-use links for a 50k offer
when they opt-in to "Partner Offers" in their Mileage Plan account preferences.
=======================================
BUSINESS CARDS
30k mile offer, $75 AF, $1k spend, no foreign transaction fees:
https://www.bankofamerica.com/smallb...-credit-card//
Note: There are two different earning formats for the business card, which you choose when you apply:
- $50 per company, $25 per card (Business Level Earning Plan)
- $0 per company, $75 per card (Individual Level Earning Plan)
To avoid billing confusion later, make sure you choose the Individual Level Earning Plan if you are not going to have employee cards under the same account as your account.
Also see the Applying for Business Credit Cards [Consolidated] thread (not-BofA-specific) for general tips on applying for business cards.
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Reconsideration # (for personal cards):
1-800-354-0401 (8am-7pm ET Mon-Fri) direct, referring agent from another BofA line called it their "credit department"
1-866-811-4108 from the Alaska Airlines Visa thread post 949
Business card Recon Line:
866-695-6598 (8-7 EST M-F from what I was told)
Biz card status line: 888 663 6262
Biz Card credit analyst line: 877 665 5022, 877 665 5023 (seems to be non-working number)
Check application status online here:
https://www.bankofamerica.com/credit...status-form.go
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Credit Enquiries for Personal cards come from BofA. Enquiries for business cards come from FIA. Credit bureaus usually merge enquiries from the same requester made on the same day. Enquiries from BofA and FIA will not be merged.
When do the initial bonus miles post? You will get the miles after the statement closes for the cycle in which you meet your minimum spend. Usually AS points show up the Sunday evening after your statement closes, but sometimes it takes an additional week.
If there's a statement credit, when does it post?
It seems to be batch-processed. It will post automatically. Can be on the same statement or the next statement. It does not appear to be based on the statement close date.
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Alaska Airlines card offers, Personal & Business [2012-2016]
Apr 1, 2016, 6:26 pm
#3241
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,784
Do not apply by phone (unless there is some special circumstance like a targeted offer that requires a phone app). You know all of that boilerplate language you are supposed to read when you apply, but just ignore? The phone rep is required to read every word of it out loud to you, slowly, slowly, slowly. That seems like it takes days, but really it's only a couple of hours.
Then having filled out the same app you would have used, or perhaps one with fewer benefits attached, they just hit submit the same way you would at home. The first time I got approved for a Plat AS card in instead of a Sig, a supervisor in the credit department suggested I do a phone app. I explained to the phone app CSR that I was calling because I would only accept a Sig card, and if they couldn't approve me for that to just not put the app thru. After spending the endless hours of having the app filled out for me over the phone, the next words from the CSRs mouth were "May I be the first to congratulate you on the approval of your new Plat card."
Apr 1, 2016, 9:07 pm
#3242
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: SNA, VCE
Programs: AA Lifetime Platinum, Hyatt Plat, Marriott Gold, United
Posts: 129
Disappearing approval.....
Has anyone had this happen? I Applied for my second Alaska business card yesterday after freezing EX and was expecting it to go to pending, but instead I got a screen saying "Congratulations, you've been approved with a credit line of $23,500, your account will be added to your profile within 24 hours."
It's been well over 24 hours and it hasn't shown up, nor does the application status page show it (it is still showing my last personal approval.)
Has this happened to anyone else, and if so, what was the outcome?
It's been well over 24 hours and it hasn't shown up, nor does the application status page show it (it is still showing my last personal approval.)
Has this happened to anyone else, and if so, what was the outcome?
Apr 2, 2016, 10:09 am
#3243
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 756
Has anyone had this happen? I Applied for my second Alaska business card yesterday after freezing EX and was expecting it to go to pending, but instead I got a screen saying "Congratulations, you've been approved with a credit line of $23,500, your account will be added to your profile within 24 hours."
It's been well over 24 hours and it hasn't shown up, nor does the application status page show it (it is still showing my last personal approval.)
Has this happened to anyone else, and if so, what was the outcome?
It's been well over 24 hours and it hasn't shown up, nor does the application status page show it (it is still showing my last personal approval.)
Has this happened to anyone else, and if so, what was the outcome?
My experiences have been once the initial congrats with approval then you are set. Just wait for the card to be mailed to you in about 7-10 days.
So far for all banks, I've never had an application that was approved on line and never gotten the card.
I've gotten a lot of pendings on line that I did nothing at all, didn't call recon but eventually cards were mailed to me anyway.
Apr 2, 2016, 11:21 am
#3244
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,933
Has anyone had this happen? I Applied for my second Alaska business card yesterday after freezing EX and was expecting it to go to pending, but instead I got a screen saying "Congratulations, you've been approved with a credit line of $23,500, your account will be added to your profile within 24 hours."
It's been well over 24 hours and it hasn't shown up, nor does the application status page show it (it is still showing my last personal approval.)
Has this happened to anyone else, and if so, what was the outcome?
It's been well over 24 hours and it hasn't shown up, nor does the application status page show it (it is still showing my last personal approval.)
Has this happened to anyone else, and if so, what was the outcome?
The BofA "check application status" report claims to show applications from the last 90 days, but they showed me an application which was over 95 days old, so I'm not sure how far back they go. Check the date on the application to make sure it's showing you the last one. (It will give the exact same wording for an app where you already got the card months ago, if it's still listed on your "check application status" page. The only difference will be your application ID and the application date.)
Apr 2, 2016, 2:06 pm
#3245
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: SNA, VCE
Programs: AA Lifetime Platinum, Hyatt Plat, Marriott Gold, United
Posts: 129
Are you sure you're looking at your latest application?
The BofA "check application status" report claims to show applications from the last 90 days, but they showed me an application which was over 95 days old, so I'm not sure how far back they go. Check the date on the application to make sure it's showing you the last one. (It will give the exact same wording for an app where you already got the card months ago, if it's still listed on your "check application status" page. The only difference will be your application ID and the application date.)
The BofA "check application status" report claims to show applications from the last 90 days, but they showed me an application which was over 95 days old, so I'm not sure how far back they go. Check the date on the application to make sure it's showing you the last one. (It will give the exact same wording for an app where you already got the card months ago, if it's still listed on your "check application status" page. The only difference will be your application ID and the application date.)
Apr 2, 2016, 4:07 pm
#3246
Join Date: Mar 2011
Programs: AA, UA, DL, AS, LH, BA, VS, HHonors, Hyatt, Club Carlson, IHG, Marriott
Posts: 833
Has anyone had this happen? I Applied for my second Alaska business card yesterday after freezing EX and was expecting it to go to pending, but instead I got a screen saying "Congratulations, you've been approved with a credit line of $23,500, your account will be added to your profile within 24 hours."
It's been well over 24 hours and it hasn't shown up, nor does the application status page show it (it is still showing my last personal approval.)
Has this happened to anyone else, and if so, what was the outcome?
It's been well over 24 hours and it hasn't shown up, nor does the application status page show it (it is still showing my last personal approval.)
Has this happened to anyone else, and if so, what was the outcome?
Apr 3, 2016, 11:16 am
#3247
Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 632
Applied for personal and business 3/30. Got in on both after having applied for personal on 1/15. The personal took some finagling.
Quick note to those of you with Fidelity cards and high credit lines - since BoA is in the process of selling the cards, they will not move any of your credit limits around, yet are still counting those limits against your outstanding total credit. Made applying a real pain in the ....
Quick note to those of you with Fidelity cards and high credit lines - since BoA is in the process of selling the cards, they will not move any of your credit limits around, yet are still counting those limits against your outstanding total credit. Made applying a real pain in the ....
Apr 3, 2016, 2:09 pm
#3248
Join Date: Sep 2005
Programs: Northwest, United
Posts: 3,256
Thanks.
Apr 3, 2016, 5:32 pm
#3249
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: NY, NY
Posts: 695
Fidelity's cards were issued by FIA Card Services (aka BoA). Fidelity recently announced that Elan Financial Services will be issuing the credit cards and that existing customers will be transferred over, starting around June/July. More info here: https://www.fidelity.com/cash-manage...ardmember-faqs
Apr 3, 2016, 6:41 pm
#3250
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 1,774
I want to apply for BoA Alaska Air signature card when its signup bonus increases to 30K in May.
I have noticed Alaska Air has been closing accounts of those who apply both business and personal version on the same day and receive two bonuses.
My question is, is it still a good idea to get both personal and business in the same day (hopefully with one hard pull) or it's better to have two apps with 1 week or so gap (with two hard pull)?
I have noticed Alaska Air has been closing accounts of those who apply both business and personal version on the same day and receive two bonuses.
My question is, is it still a good idea to get both personal and business in the same day (hopefully with one hard pull) or it's better to have two apps with 1 week or so gap (with two hard pull)?
Apr 3, 2016, 9:12 pm
#3251
Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 632
Fidelity's cards were issued by FIA Card Services (aka BoA). Fidelity recently announced that Elan Financial Services will be issuing the credit cards and that existing customers will be transferred over, starting around June/July. More info here: https://www.fidelity.com/cash-manage...ardmember-faqs
Apr 4, 2016, 8:28 am
#3253
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,784
Apr 4, 2016, 8:39 am
#3254
Join Date: Jun 2014
Programs: 747 Upper Deck QF J LAX-BNE; A380 SQ SuiteC+D SYD-SIN & SIN-HKG; 777 CX F HKG-JFK; Park Hyatt Sydney
Posts: 513
[QUOTE=uclacolumbiaunc;26431618]I have noticed Alaska Air has been closing accounts of those who apply both business and personal version on the same day and receive two bonuses./QUOTE]
Where can I read more about this? I applied for both on the same day. Should I be expecting a shutdown? Should I wait awhile to earn the 25K miles on that first business card purchase?
Where can I read more about this? I applied for both on the same day. Should I be expecting a shutdown? Should I wait awhile to earn the 25K miles on that first business card purchase?
Apr 4, 2016, 10:30 am
#3255
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: SAF
Programs: HH Gold, IHG Gold
Posts: 675