Brugge

The current offer is pathetic. Thus the dearth of recent posts. But several times a year, for a month or so each time, the offer is raised to 50K miles. So either watch the blogs (heresy, I know) or just keep checking with Barclays until you see the 50K offer reappear. Then apply quickly before it goes away.

If you currently have a Barclays card of any sort, doing regular spending on it will greatly increase your odds of being approved for a LH card when the offer does reappear. Barclays likes people to use their cards, and rewards people who do that with more cards.

Also be aware that LH miles expire after 3 years, and the ONLY way to prevent that is to charge something on the card EVERY billing period. Miss just one time, and the 3 years from originally posting policy kicks in.

UA Fan

These rigid expiration policies really annoy me.

cesco.g

It'd be great to have an "alert" system in place, to notify if the 50K promo kicks in again.

Brugge

Yes it would, but I don't know of any way to do that. I'm afraid all you can do is check back on this thread once a week or so. When you click on this thread, and see 3 or 4 "unread" pages of posts, you'll know it's back up.

Brugge

Well, that's true for all of us. My suggestion would be to put something with a monthly charge on auto-pay with the card. Netflix or something like that. Then you won't have to remember to use it. In my case, it's a moot point. My sign up bonus was 50K points, and it takes 85K points for a first class award for US-Europe. So I've got a lot of regular spend to do to meet that. Luckily I've got several very hungry RedBirds to feed.

rrgg

In case this helps, you can monitor a page for changes using this:

https://www.changedetection.com/

I'll trying it out by setting one for the following pages:
https://www.miles-and-more.com/onlin...eid=2073359900
www.BarclaycardUS.com/milesandmore

However, it may not work since a 50k offer might show up at some other specific link.

UA Fan

grizzam sent me this link for a 50K offer:

https://www.barclaycardus.com/apply/...cellNumber=23&

shinypenny01

The 50k is public on Barclay's site now.

$5k spend, $79 AF not waived, companion pass included.

adlibitum

applied and got "technical issues" message, which I have received before from Barclays but when I check application status no record of my application, not sure what's up

illinidad

I believe the alert system is called 'bloggers'

FlyingDoctorwu

I am a current card holder.. of course I would love to take advantage of the increased sign up bonus... is this going to be possible?

i.e. Can I apply for another one while keep this current or can I cancel my current one today and apply for another one. I think that the T and C says something about a 6 month period between bonuses but does that mean I need to wait 6 months between canceling and applying for a new card?

thanks
FDW

adlibitum

I was able to get the bonus twice after I cancelled my first card and waited about a month. However, I have been unable to get a third bonus my last two apps, even after waiting a year, the system now recognizes me as a previous cardholder and auto denies. Good luck.

bobby21

I am a US AIr car holder and Barclays has denied me twice for another US air card, any chance that I can get the Lufthansa card? I have never had it in the past. I have a lot of HPs but Chase and Citi keep giving me more cards.

Brugge

I could swear I saw the expiration date for this current 50K offer, but I can't find it now. Anyone know?

LizGross144

I'm going through the T&C, and see that this offer is invalid in Iowa. Does that happen often with offers like this? I'm not an Iowan, just curious.