Have you seen the new Virgin Atlantic amex from boa? There offering a 20,000 mile signup bonus, 2,500 for each co-signer (up to 2), 1.5 miles/$1 spent (hey Dan looks like that beats your starwood
- almost) and 10% off virgin tickets.
Plus, virgin's mileage program looks (at first glance) pretty good, i checked a flight from ny to london, 22,500 miles rt!!! (could be thats only offseason). They dont fly w/ mileage to too many destinations however (or at least not w/ the mileage calculator on their site) but it looks ok.
The downside is the $90 annual fee... but i guess u can just not pay it, but it might be worth it, they offer 1 teir point per $2,500 spent a month, max of 2/month. The tier points get u elite status, 15 for silver 40 for gold, i guess it depends how much u spend (and fly - on virgin) - finally a card offering elite status (btw whatever happend w/ the resereve?).
Their mileage doesnt mix w/ virgin america, which doesnt matter b/c u can fly to europe for the same 25,000 miles.
I really didnt look into all this too much, but it looks pretty good, like boa finally has a good credit card to offer...
Here's the link
https://wwwa.applyonlinenow.com/USCCapp/Ctl/entry?sc=FACIVV