Tuesday, February 6, 2007

How to choose an airline card

There are so many airline cards that might be making you confused to decide which one to choose from? You can easily arrive at some decision by asking yourself these basic questions such as which airline do you use most? or how often do you fly and is there any benefits worth the fees charged by these airlines.

In case you use only one airline whenever you travel you have to first check with them and see if they have their own airline card because some of the airlines don’t offer their own card but they are in some join venture with other companies to offer their own special card. However, it is more likely that your favorite airline has its own airline card available.

It may be possible that you just look at the cost of the flights, schedule or deals and don’t pay any attention to the airline that takes you to your wished destination. So if this is the case you need to search for an airline card that has more lenience and thus you should be able to find an airlines card that is offered with several airlines instead of just one.

You should also check into airline cards and if you fly quite often then you can easily find some great offers and benefits however if you travel only once a year or every couple of years then airline credit card would be the best deal.

As each airline card works on some point and after you fly for a certain amount of miles you can also receive a free flight. You should remember that most of the time the point that you accumulate on your airline card expires. So you should not fly very often or you will be losing some points instead of gaining some reward points for yourself.

If you are fly very often, then an airline card can give you plenty of benefits especially if you have an airlines credit card that doesn’t put a cap on the points that you can earn every year.


http://www.articletrader.com/travel/aviation/how-to-choose-an-airline-card.html