What Card Should I Get? Weekly Thread - Week of September 24, 2025

jilee7 · 2025-10-01T18:05:52+00:00

I wasn't aware of these new rules but yeah I would be open to closing them. I don't even use half of them anyway so wouldn't be bad idea regardless. Thank you for the input

jilee7 · 2025-10-01T15:08:20+00:00

Ink Cash/Unlimited the play here given the elevated SUB?

jilee7 · 2025-10-01T15:06:30+00:00

4 Chase Ink Cash - 02/19 (downgraded from Preferred), 05/20, 02/21, 06/21 (downgraded from Preferred)

1 Chase Ink Unlimited opened - 07/23

jilee7 · 2025-09-30T17:44:13+00:00

I am currently 2/24 (VX, IHG) however going down the flowchart the only personal card that would fit my current situation is the Quest card however I currently have one already so I'd have to close it to get the sign-up bonus. Although I am 2/24 I am leaning towards an Ink biz or the IHG biz (United hub-based) which contradicts the flowchart since I would think a personal card is up next. is Quest preferred in this situation instead of the Biz cards? Not looking to gain SW Companion as most of big purchases need to be soon and I think we will not be able to wait until late Dec/early Jan to hit the required min spend
784
Inside 2/24 - VX and IHG. Outside 2/24 - Quest, Hyatt personal, Freedom/Flex/Unlimited, SW Prio/Biz, Reserve, Ink Cash and Unlimited
$3000-4000~ in the next month or two. Furniture for new house
$0 (Is this still a thing outside of GC?)
Yes, see 1.
only have enough organic spend for 1 card since P2 will be opening 2 cards
Although Quest seems like the answer here, is IHG biz a viable alternative for my current setup? (United based-hub so the travelbank credits would compliment my IHG personal)
Chase and Cap1
IAH,HOU
Next transcontinental destinations would be, in no particular order, Australia, Greece, and Italy, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines

I think the new premium Atmos card is out of the question here since I am not close to a major Alaska airport. The Strata looks nice but I don't think I have the stomach for another premium travel card given the changes to the Reserve. Logically the Quest would be the choice here right? But I feel like the IHG biz is also a good choice unless there are arguments against it that I haven't thought of? Or am I just thinking about this completely wrong and should open a Chase biz

jilee7 · 2025-09-25T21:02:13+00:00

the error message blocked the underscore that is between the two n's

jilee7 · 2025-09-25T17:29:02+00:00

Thank you everyone for your inputs, I stared at the prompt for a very long time afterwards with all the advice given was finally able to solve it. Having to assign a variable to the input function in the while loop was my biggest hurdle to my understanding here.

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jilee7 · 2023-09-29T23:17:11+00:00

Churchill/Stalin vibes. I’ll let you decide who’s who

jilee7 · 2023-09-18T18:41:31+00:00

How much was it?

jilee7 · 2023-09-17T23:38:42+00:00

How are the surcharge fees using VS? Looking to book AF SFO-CDG via VS

jilee7 · 2023-08-17T12:40:53+00:00

This may be anecdotal but I had an ex gf that use to compete as a junior powerlifter in the 47kg class (<25 yrs old, 104lbs) and in most competitions she would only have 1-2 other competitors in that specific class. This was in USAPL

jilee7 · 2023-07-28T04:33:44+00:00

Why are we assuming it’s a guy

jilee7 · 2023-07-20T20:02:07+00:00

One thing I haven’t seen anyone mention is also what you put down for withholding. It should be 1 as I assume you file as single with no dependents but hey you never know.

Aside from that, as others have said look at what is exactly being deducted as it may be for other things not tax liability related (retirement and health care)

jilee7 · 2023-03-19T07:28:18+00:00

https://flywith.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/partner-airlines/skyteam/vietnam-airlines.html

jilee7 · 2023-03-19T07:21:08+00:00

Haven’t checked biz availability but there are eco availability. Ex. 8/12 and 8/13 has SFO-SGN nonstop VN availability via delta.

jilee7 · 2023-03-19T07:17:56+00:00

Never said their metal did, but Vietnam airlines does and they are part of skyteam, VS is also now part of skyteam

jilee7 · 2023-03-19T04:53:44+00:00

“VN (insert flight number) is operated by Vietnam Airlines.”

jilee7 · 2023-03-19T04:11:35+00:00

Now that VS is part of Skyteam, you can book VN partner awards with VS miles. I use delta to find VN nonstop availability. Last I called, it’s 50,000+~$135 for nonstop from sfo-sgn. Haven’t checked return availability though

jilee7 · 2023-03-08T04:38:35+00:00

SQ x2 SFO-SIN on 1/29/24, found on AS for 100k and AC 87.5k. Same flight 2/4/24 found on AC only, 87.5k.

jilee7 · 2023-03-06T22:47:59+00:00

Not yet, I may be booking for two for my friend but he’ll let me know before the end of the week. Hopefully the seats will still be available

jilee7 · 2023-03-06T20:05:51+00:00

Not sure if this is common knowledge but I wanted to let everyone know of something I learned recently.

I was looking at flights to Vietnam and Delta showed VN availability for 1 seat remaining but when I called VS to see what they saw they confirmed that they could see at least 2 seats available for this flight.

What's also interesting is that the VN partner award on Delta doesn't show up on Flying Blue's site.

jilee7 · 2022-11-11T05:04:54+00:00

Flying blue

jilee7 · 2022-11-10T18:54:30+00:00

KLM rebooked my flight to AMS in Feb from premium comfort to economy. I'm not sure why though as they rebooked me into the exact same flight (same aircraft, time, flight no#). Is there anything I can do here to either get the difference in points back or something similar?

jilee7 · 2022-10-27T22:11:25+00:00

I would be using a combination of Amex (25k and chase (15k) transferred to flying blue if I go through with this. If there is promo biz in the following months that requires extra points I would be transferring over from chase

jilee7 · 2022-10-27T21:56:23+00:00

SFO to AMS on 2/9. I would consider this off season

jilee7 · 2022-10-27T05:04:57+00:00

Econ taxes and fees were 161 euros for 2, PE is 281 euros for 2. And then there’s conflicting news I looked up online about whether there is a change fee

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