Fly from US to Europe for $5 | Credit card points for travel 101
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Award travel is easier than it sounds. And I show step-by-step how to fly from the US to Europe for just $5 (plus some free points). Click "show more" to see ad disclosure.
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Learning how to use credit card points for travel is a gamechanger. It has saved us thousands of dollars in flights over the past few years, and you can learn how to travel hack in minutes.
If you’re looking for how to travel cheap AF, this strategy should be in your arsenal.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:13 $5 flight strategy
5:12 Recommendations for beginners
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🟣A L I T T L E A B O U T U S
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Thank you for your time and posting.
Leave a comment below if you have any questions! And if you're in the small percentage of people who already know how to do this and feel like leaving me a nasty comment, feel free to do that as well as it helps with the algorithm 😉
This is amazing!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!! 👏
You’re very welcome! Happy flying! 😎
Great videos I’ve been learning a lot
I appreciate your tips! New Subscriber! Thanks.
Awesome! Glad to have you onboard! 😎
Getting and learning different travel hacks is always great to have in one's back pocket. I like that you have tried these tips already, making it very easy for us to also do. Can't wait for the hotels (and other places to stay)!
I’m glad you found it helpful! I feet like a lot of people have heard about these things before in passing, but they can feel intimidating if you’ve never actually done it. In reality, it’s pretty simple and has saved us so much money!
@@ProjectUntethered I couldn't agree more. A few years ago I opened a Chase Sapphire card...well, they raised their yearly fee and I needed to figure something out. Cool thing with Chase is you can transfer points to another card! It's always great to get travel point hacks!
Yes, I should have mentioned that! I didn’t pay the yearly fee either, I downgraded to a freedom card with no fees, then waited until I was eligible to get the sign-up bonus again. At first I just used their chase travel portal to book flights, but then I discovered your points go way further when you transfer them out!
@@ProjectUntethered That's awesome! I got the freedom card too. Thanks again for all the great info, it's much appreciated. And hope you both are doing great!
You bet! Have an awesome week!
Thank you for your tips, but it went so fast, I had trouble absorbing. I took notes on your advice, though!
Here’s a new video I just did about another tool you might find helpful if you’re based in the U.S. 😇 EASIEST Way To Book Cheap Flights With Points & Miles
ruclips.net/video/IyDAr9ImWwA/видео.html
I wish I learn everything about this. I want to apply for American Express,but the annual fee is expensive.
You could always find a card that waives the annual fee Roth first year, then cancel or downgrade to a card with no annual fee before your second year starts!
Nice, lemme just get my credit up 😂👍🏽
I might be doing a video soon for people with lower credit scores, stay tuned!
I found a one way to Paris for 30k and 5.60. and i have 2 tickets to essentially it would cost me 120k and around 22.40
Does this only work for American countries cause I live in Africa and would really like to know how I could book cheap flights and cheaper travels overall
The US has the best credit card deals for this strategy, but some other countries have some options as well. You’d have to search if there are any available where you’re from. If not, check out our playlist on cheap travel tips - there are some other strategies in there that you might be able to use!
Your speaker got some trouble?
I tried to use my united miles to travel to Europe and they're wanting much more miles. The cost of flight on Google is less than what united online is requiring me to pay with points and cash. I don't know if United has increased the points you need to fly to Europe now but it seems that is the case. Do you know if united has transfer miles to partner airlines button on their site?
Hmm that is interesting! I remember when searching for my flights from Detroit to Madrid, United only costed a few thousand points extra. But it seemed pretty similar-ish to American. Does it change depending on what dates you’re looking at? In some cases, buying a normal flight makes more sense than using points, but I thought US to Europe would be a good use of points normally. You should be able to use United miles on any/most Star Alliance airlines (just google for a complete list), but they are not like bank points where you can transfer to different airlines. I would just google “how to use United miles US to Europe” or something like that. There’s tons of good info out there!
@@ProjectUntethered Will look at other dates.
I ran into this same problem. Flight to Costa Rica $450 on Google, $700 worth of chase points.
Yeah it seems like a lot of times prices are way higher on the Chase portal for some reason, so I usually transfer points to airline partners instead
Have I found a gold channel? I guess it is🤑
I like the ring of "gold channel"! 😎
You forgot to mention that one of your example flights had 2 stops
Well now I wanna take a trip!🙂
Haha do it!! What adventures have you guys been up to lately?
@@ProjectUntethered haha we'll we just got some lambs and chickens for the homestead, just hoping for some sun up here, if you could send some that'd be great :D
I want a lamb!! Haha you got it - sending sun from the Moroccan desert! ☀️
What if you have bad credit?
That makes it a bit trickier unfortunately. You'd have to start with a card that has lower credit requirements, pay it off in full every month, and slowly build your way up to the cards that offer better rewards. Definitely worth the effort though!
REALLY misleading! Capitol One Venture X has an annual fee of $395. Add that to your "low fare." Then, in order to get the "bonus," one must charge $1,333 to the card each month within the first three months of acquiring the card. Can't pay that off each month? Add interest. As for American Airlines Citi Advantage Platinum Select, the $99 annual fee is waived for the first year, but one must spend $833 per month for the first three months to get 50,000 miles. AND, of course, if you don't have a significant income and a credit score above 700, don't bother applying.
Your $5 flight is hardly a bargain.
He did say in the beginning that when he gets a new card he puts money he was going to spend anyways towards it. Credit Cards aren't for everyone. My wife and I just discovered this though and I find it very helpful. We have had credit cards for years. Have high spend on those cards... $3000 per month between the 2 of us. Pay it off every month 100% have 800 credit scores and never got a single point out of it. We travel 2 times a year. We just got a Capitol one venture X card.. yes there's a $395 annual fee... but we already book a trip through the portal and got a $300 travel credit. So effectively a $95 travel credit. Our next trip to 5 round trips to Boston can be fully paid by the 75k point bonus through Turkish Smiles rewards at 7500 points each way on United. That makes the $95 effective annual fee pretty damn cheap if you ask me.
Yeah, definitely not for everyone. Like David mentioned, the Venture X gives you a $300 travel credit and 10,000 bonus points ($100+) every year. If you use them, that covers the annual fee. That means the lounge access and other benefits is essentially a free cherry on top. And the first year is even better, the sign up bonus alone at the time of this video s worth pretty much double the annual fee. Another thing I forgot to mention if you’re interested in American Airlines miles and don’t want to do the minimum spend thing - Barclays actually has a card where you just have to make ONE purchase (could be just a coffee) in order to get the miles. To me, that’s a pretty epic bargain. Certainly better than paying for full priced tickets, sitting on the floor, and paying for pricey airport food when you wait at the airport 😉
Links provided don't work. :(
Which one didn't work for you? I just updated the Chase link, should be working now :-)
okay but then you end up having a bunch of credit cards on which you pay high anual fees...
You just need to call the credit card company before your 2nd year starts and ask them to product change you to a card with no annual fee. That's what I do all the time!
@@ProjectUntethered well I’m from Germany and we don’t have credit cards that offer the benefits you are getting. You don’t know how lucky you are to have them…
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