Review: The Best Credit Cards For Frequent Flyers Of Continental Airlines
If you frequently fly with Continental Airlines, the Chase Continental Airlines World Mastercard can prove an indispensable tool in your wallet. It offers possibly the best miles package available for Continental, allowing you to earn double miles on purchases made with the airline and single miles for regular purchases.
A second alternative is the Chase Flexible Rewards card. This credit card lets you earn one reward point for every dollar you use up, which you can then exchange specifically for Continental OnePass miles. Exchange rate is 1:1.2, allowing you to convert 10,000 rewards points into 12,000 miles - a great deal considering that the Continental Airlines World Mastercard only allows you to earn a single mile for every non-airline purchase.
Which One’s Better?
The better choice for you will depend on a couple of things, namely:
- How often you expect to make purchases with Continental Airlines, and
- How often you will use the card for other purchases
If you’re going to shop frequently with Continental, the World Mastercard will earn you double points on those purchases, making it a great value for you. Unless you will, however, the Flexible Rewards card from Chase makes better sense. It will earn you the same points on both Continental sales and regular purchases but the each point can be exchanged for a better rate than 1 is to 1.
Additionally, the Chase Continental Airlines World Mastercard comes with an $85 annual fee (and no, Chase won’t wave it without a special condition) while the Flexible Rewards comes with no annual charges.
