chichow

Anyone ever get the 15k enrollment bonus more than once in the past?

I'm just a bit short on an award and was thinking of applying for the card. I did have one in the past but that was closed and also ages ago

https://www.usbank.com/credit-cards/...edit-card.html

Kacee

Do you have the Chase Marriott card? That has a 75,000 point bonus right now, which will translate to 30,000 KE. And is a much better card overall.

zippy the pinhead

It seems it is not a good time to apply for the US Bank Skypass Visa, as the best available public offer is for the lame $450 annual fee card, and in the reasonably recent past the signature Visa was available with a much higher signup bonus. Threshold offers on these US Bank cards are laughable, IME, and the miles post so long after the fact that I am usually wondering what they were for. SPG points are still transferable to KE, and they transfer at 1:1 currently, so consider also an SPG card.

Kacee

SPG points will only be around for 2 more days, then they all convert to MR, which will transfer 3:1, with a 25% bonus for every 60k transferred.

84fiero

If you have any existing Chase Ultimate Rewards points and a card allowing UR-to-airline transfers, you have until 24 Aug to transfer to SkyPass at 1:1.

hurnik

So, IMO, the easiest/fastest way to get points to Skypass:
Ultimate Rewards (until 8/24/18) as they transfer over in a 1:1 fashion. Ink Preferred Business = 80,000 UR points. Either of the Chase Sapphire cards (Preferred/Reserve) have the 50k signup bonus, but the Reserve $450 fee isn't worth it (IMO) considering the sign up bonus is the same.

"next" best are the "old" Starwood points, as they went over 1:1, and then there was the bonus (I think 20k SPG points = 25k KE Skypass with the 5k bonus).
But the marriott conversion will give you 3:1 SPG points. So 20k SPG will now equal 60k Marriott points. And 60k Marriott points = 25k (with 5k bonus).
So it works out the same, just that the old Amex SPG cards were usually 35k bonus SPG sign up. Their new ones (non-business) are like 75k (Marriott?) points signup. So divide by 3, and the new cards are only really getting you 25k "SPG" type points.

In that regard, the $450 US Bank offer at 30k Skypass is probably "better", but that's a stiff price to pay.
US Bank has crappy sign up bonuses.

The "old/regular" card, is only 15k. I got lucky 2.5 years ago and got it at 30k. I've not seen the 30k bonus since, let alone the 40-45k (that was targeted though).

We can only hope that US Bank starts having better bonuses when Chase it out of the picture.

Kacee

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hurnik

Oh you're right, sorry about that.
Will correct.

The old SPG will equal the same bonus as the "new" with the conversions.