Author Topic: Looking for advice which CC to sign up for - for awards to EU  (Read 1327 times)

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Would like to get my parents the upcoming winter from NY to London round trip In  business class.
Which credit cards would be best for me to sign them up for, to achieve that goal.

(They don't owe any major credit cards or points as of now)

Excuse me if there is an existing thread for that as couldn't find any .

Any advice would be appreciated.
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Re: Looking for advice which CC to sign up for - for awards to EU
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2018, 12:19:49 AM »
Use awardhacker.com
To be able to see some rates in specific airlines and then take it from there, seeing which points you need to get.
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Re: Looking for advice which CC to sign up for - for awards to EU
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2018, 12:21:28 AM »
Use awardhacker.com
To be able to see some rates in specific airlines and then take it from there, seeing which points you need to get.
The problem is you need to know what normally has availability, Awardhacker.com can't tell you that.
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Re: Looking for advice which CC to sign up for - for awards to EU
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2018, 01:25:19 AM »
The problem is you need to know what normally has availability, Awardhacker.com can't tell you that.
Yes that's correct unless he pays for a site which gives over that information to which airlines have availability on so-and-so dates, otherwise he would have to manually check some random dates to see if it has availability and then from there he could know which points to collect.
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Re: Looking for advice which CC to sign up for - for awards to EU
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2018, 09:52:21 AM »
I would go with either Amex that transfers To AC or Chase that transfers to UA. Both have great availability from NYC to LON.
And you’re not locked in to a specific airline.

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Re: Looking for advice which CC to sign up for - for awards to EU
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2018, 10:46:58 AM »
I would go with either Amex that transfers To AC or Chase that transfers to UA. Both have great availability from NYC to LON.
And you’re not locked in to a specific airline.
If he's taking United is it possible to book under Singapore or agean like one would book when going to tlv?
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Re: Looking for advice which CC to sign up for - for awards to EU
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2018, 10:53:16 AM »
If he's taking United is it possible to book under Singapore or agean like one would book when going to tlv?
Sure. As long as there is regular saver space available.

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Re: Looking for advice which CC to sign up for - for awards to EU
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2018, 11:20:16 AM »
Sure. As long as there is regular saver space available.
dies it cost less on Singapore then us ?

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Re: Looking for advice which CC to sign up for - for awards to EU
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2018, 10:55:53 PM »
AA usually has great availability to London.