Very late to the game-need card selection help
 

Hello Forum,

Newbie here with newbie questions. Have started trying to take this all in and it is overwhelming to say the least. Seems I am a little late to the game, but as they say better late than never!

Would like some help in possibly figuring out a strategy for tackling two trips on my bucket list and would like to "potentially" get by paying as much as I can with points/miles. I currently live in PHX, so that would be my departure city. I am looking to go to OTP and CPT. It would just be myself, I would like to do it in Business/First if possible but not mandatory, and understand it won't happen overnight. My preferred airline is Delta, though I am not married to that either.

I just got a targeted offer in the mail a month ago for the DL Gold with 60,000 sign up miles. I already cleared the spending limit and have banked those points. I am currently sitting at a shade over 70k in miles in my DL account. I do not have miles with anyone else. I have enough spending in the next 3 months to clear at least 10k in spending requirements. I would like to get as many DL points as possible but am worried reading posts that AMEX is a one and done in a lifetime now. As I stated before, though, I am willing to take anyone.

Anyone have good suggestions on what cards I should potentially be shooting for? In my lifetime, I have only redeemed this offer. I have the Quicksilver card aswell that gives me 1.5% cash back but am running out of ways to find that useful anymore.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Where are you trying to get to, trip wise, and when? The more details you give, the more we can help.

With what you've given, I can say/do, absolutely nothing.

Edit: Bucarest and Capt Town? Same trip or different? Either way you're gonna need a hella lot more Skypesos than you currently have.

Any Citi cards associated with AA.

Although not mandatory, located at PHX means your obvious choice will be AA.

Also - DL's program simply sucks from its foundation.