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UA (Visa) and BoA's US (Visa) offer status mile bonuses for large annual purchases?

As I understand, BofA US Visa will "change" 10,000 status miles from the 25,000 miles already earned. This is once per 25,000. Aside from getting multiple cards are there any other options?

This is a current offer from UA Visa for 20,000 bonus miles, 5000 EQM, and no annual fee the first year, through 5/15/06:

https://app.firstusa.com/ICBatch/?PI...1&MSC=Z0049150

The link that you have provided does not mention anything about 5000 EQM. How do you know you will realy get those miles?

I don't think this First USA offer includes any EQM, although some say it does. Perhaps a targeted offer? It has been discussed at length in a UAL thread. http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=549788

If anyone has solid info on getting the EQM a post of the info would be much appreciated.

Can you explain what exactly you mean when you say BofA "will 'change' 10,000 status miles from the 25,000 miles already earned"? Do you mean that after you have "earned" 25K of RDM, your RDM balance will be reduced by 10K and your EQM balance will be increased by 10K. (I doubt that.) Or do you mean that your RDM balance will remain unchanged, but your EQM balance will see a 10K increase. (More likely. This is what happens with a UA Platinum Visa, though it is 5K of EQM that one gets when they spend >$35K in a year with the card.) And by "earned" I presume you mean it comes after you have spent >$25K in a year with the BofA card rather than with the 25K of RDM enrollment bonus or 25K of RDM from BIS flying.

(BTW, where can one find what Juniper or BofA say about EQM? I have the Juniper/Barclays card and am waiting to receive the BofA one, but I am not aware of anything about EQM, since I didn't see anything about EQM when I applied. Also, do Juniper and/or BofA have deals for "double miles" when the cards are used for paying taxes?)

[QUOTE=itsme]Can you explain what exactly you mean when you say BofA "will 'change' 10,000 status miles from the 25,000 miles already earned"?

Once you charge >25K on your BofA or Juniper account, 10K of the DM in your account become Preferred Miles (those that count for status)

BTW, where can one find what Juniper or BofA say about EQM?

US uses the term Preferred rather than Elite. As in "We earn preferred miles when we fly". There is Silver, Gold, Platinum an Chairman's Preferred levels.

If we get double miles for anything other than buying US products, I'm not aware of it.
Hope it answers your qustion.
Eileen

[QUOTE=EileenSRN]That sort of answers my questions (and helps me with the different terms, "Preferred Miles" with DM vs "Elite Qualifying Miles" with MP). Still wish to be clear that when your spend with BofA or Juniper goes beyond $25K, you get 10K of Preferred Miles with no loss of accumulated RDM (redeemable miles). And would like to know where to find this stated by BofA or Juniper, since I didn't see it with my applications to either when I signed up with them.
(My interest in status with US is marginal given that I am 1P with UA and do most of my flying with US, but still would like to know these details.)

Thanks for your help.

(BTW, did BofA or Juniper afford their cardholders to the opportunity to earn "double miles" by paying their taxes with those cards, as did Chase with the UA Visa cards, SPG Amex, and CitibankAA?)

RIght from the US air website. The link will give you the whole list of bennies, but I included the part about the credit card earned miles converting to Preferred miles. You do not lose any redeamable miles.

http://www.usairways.com/dividendmil...reditcards.htm

Apply today for the US Airways Visa Signature Card
Apply today for US Airways Premier World MasterCard

(1) Double miles do not apply to the purchase of US Airways Vacation
(2) Spend $25,000 or more in a calendar year and 10,000 miles you have already earned will count towards Preferred/Elite status.
(3) Valid for the first year you have a card. After the first year you will earn 2 miles per $1 spent on US Airways and US Airways Vacations purchases and 1 mile per $1 spent on other purchases
(4) Visit usairwaysvisa.com for full terms and conditions
(5) Visit lotsmoremiles.com for full terms and conditions

Bank of America also offers US Airways Visa Classic, Gold and Small Business cards. Learn More.

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Still can't answer your question on tax payments.
I have also heard that if you have more than one US credit card, you can get the 10K on each card with a 25K total usage.
Eileen

Thank, quite interesting. When I signed up for Juniper not long ago, I got 15K miles for enrolling. Now, I see one can get "up to 25K." I am not clear what brings one the full 25K, but I suppose I will call to find out and to see whether/how I can get the 10K of DM I missed out on.

Also, I see that usair.com has info about both cards, whereas before they only took you to the BofA card. (IIRC from what I read in the papers at the time, Juniper, an affiliate of Barclays, got into the deal through AmericaWest and BofA was none too please about sharing the business with this competitor which was out to undercut it with a better deal for customers, since it had had lock previously.) I guess US must have come to some agreement with the banks whereby they would "share" equal billing with somewhat different product offerings. (How does BofA compete with its Visa side-by-side with Juniper's MC, when the latter charges no annual fee for two years and the former demands $90 per year, and they are unequal in terms of mileage accrual too? I should think it is decidedly unhelpful to BofA to have the two cards compared side-by-side in that table on the US website.)

The tax payment deal made it possible for me to run big charges on my other cards. While not so focused on US status as UA status, if could make tax payments with these UA cards like with UA ones, earning double miles and able to get the 10K of PM on each, I might consider doing it.

Again, thanks for answering my questions. I believe what is on the US website regarding card options is different than what was there only a few weeks ago.

The last 10K come from balance transfer. BUT they do charge a fat fee! Cost me 100 for the 5K I transferred. It was still cheap miles. There is a thread on the US forum: BofA fights back. Lots of info there...an new offer available on the B of A site.

Thanks, again. $100 for 5K of redeemable miles is not outrageous (2 cpm), but not cheap either, at least not in my book. So if the last 10K of "free" enrollment miles comes only with a balance transfer that carries a substantial fee of its own, then not of interest to me. (I have never done a balance transfer with any card, but I believe that some have offered truly free balance transfers, with the added benefit of remaining interest free for some time after the transfer too.) Will see if I can find that "BofA fights back" thread, since it sounds very much on point, and I very much like the idea of competition forcing banks to compete for our business.

If you are chatting about the AMEX Black / Centurion card then its by invitation only, and for very very elite customers.

HighFlyer,
No, we're talking about the new Juniper MC which is US branded. 15K to join and up to 10K in balance xter, with a transaction fee. 1 1/2 mi for every $ the first year and no annual fee the first 2 years.

UA Visa is allowing conversion of up to 50,000 "choices" (i.e., UA miles earned through UA Visa) into 5000 UA status miles, in 1000-status-mile increments. Unclear whether miles not earned through UA Visa are convertible.