The new Citi Strata Elite is a very attractive travel credit card, even with its $595 annual fee, but its drawbacks might be ...

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A Highly Valuable Asset for Airlines Loyalty programs and co-branded credit cards are some of the most valuable assets for an airline. For example, United MileagePlus is valued at $22 billion.

The RBA itself warned the programs could be scaled back in response to an interchange fee cap, which could deliver a hit of ...

An RBA crackdown on credit card surcharges and fees could spell the end of frequent flyer points programs as we ... Read More ...

For example, U.S. Bank only allows cardholders to redeem for a Visa gift card in amounts from $25 to $500, whereas Chase offers gift cards from hundreds of merchants in amounts as small as $3.

For example, redeeming miles for a round-trip ticket from Minneapolis to San Francisco, I can either pay 55,200 SkyMiles, plus a $12 fee or a cash fare of $597 for a Main cabin ticket.

Airlines can make additional revenue by selling frequent-flyer miles to their credit-card partners. In turn, the credit card companies issue them to cardholders as spending rewards. For example ...

Virgin Australia has two branded credit cards: The Flyer Card and High Flyer Card. You can receive up to 25,000 points for the first four months, if you reach the spending limit.

A travel credit card is one of the main methods frequent flyers accrue points. If you’re looking to join the Virgin Velocity Frequent Flyer Program and take advantage of its many travel-related ...

One of the more popular features among point-earning credit cards is the ability to transfer balances to a host of airline frequent flyer programs — creating, ostensibly, a virtual bank for ...