Tips, Tricks, and Travel with Lucky

100,000 mile sign-up offer for British Airways Visa back for a limited time

The best credit card sign-up offer out there is once again available for a limited time (the offer seems to come and go). You can apply here. You earn 50,000 British Airways miles after your first purchase, and 50,000 more miles after spending $2,000 on the card within three months. As Gary points out, this card can [...]

Earn Marriott Gold or Platinum status through their Visa credit card

Following Hilton’s lead, Marriott is now making it possible to earn top tier elite status exclusively through credit card spend. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), it’s not nearly as lucrative as Hilton’s offer, whereby $40,000 of spend on their American Express Surpass card will get you Diamond status. Instead, Marriott [...]

British Airways Visa 100,000 mile sign-up bonus is back!

I posted back in November about the most amazing credit card sign up bonus ever, specifically the British Airways Visa, which offered 50,000 miles after the first purchase and another 50,000 miles after spending $2,000 in the first three months.
While the offer was dead for a while, it seems like it’s active again. You should [...]

2009 — a whole new game for me

I posted my 2009 travel year in review in December, and mentioned that this was the “richest” year for me yet as far as miles and points go. The “game” really changed for me in the second half of the year, as I extended my hobby beyond just earning miles through flying, but also through [...]

Credit card experts, help me out!

Oh lovely readers, I need your help for a moment. Remember that awesome British Airways Visa promotion offering 100,000 bonus miles for signing up? Well, I’m trying to take full advantage of it. I had my dad sign up and he got approved. I had my brother sign up and he got approved. I signed [...]

Best credit card sign up offer EVER!

Well, it’s official, you can now get 100,000 miles just for signing up for a credit card and spending $2,000. Check out the British Airways Signature Visa Card. You earn 50,000 miles after your first purchase and another 50,000 miles if you spend $2,000 in the first three months of card membership. In addition to [...]

45,000 bonus Continental OnePass miles for their credit card!

If you fulfill all the requirements by November 30, you can earn up to 45,000 Continental OnePass miles for getting their Chase Mastercard. The breakdown is as follows:

25,000 bonus miles after you make your first purchase
5,000 bonus miles after you make your first purchase and sign up an additional authorized user within two months after [...]

American Express Premier Rewards Card

American Express now offers the new “Premier Rewards Card,” which looks quite tempting. Per Gary, the benefits are as follows:

15,000 bonus American Express Membership Rewards points after $1000 in spend
15,000 bonus points for spending $30,000 on the card between January 1 and December 31 each year (equivalent to 50% bonus if you hit $30,000 in [...]

United Mileage Plus Visa refer-a-friend

The Mileage Plus Visa has a pretty nifty refer-a-friend promotion right now, whereby the referrer gets 15,000 miles and the person referred gets a 30,000 mile sign-up bonus. To take advantage of this offer one has to apply via phone at 877.858.5188 and mention code C7G4, and there’s a limit of two referrals per person.
I just [...]

Is it time to rethink the cash back credit card?

In the past I would never even consider a cash back credit card, mainly because 1% cash back just isn’t exciting, and more importantly I love miles. Part of my obsession with miles is all in my mind (it’s a big game, after all), but at the same time they do get me some killer vacations. A good chunk [...]