Airline Credit Cards

Credit cards specially designed for traveling purposes through different airlines are termed as Airline Credit Cards and they are used the same way as other credit cards are used. These are the best choice for the people who like to travel through the air either for pleasure or for business purposes. Three major credit card issuers Master Card, Visa and American Express are the major providers of Airline Credit Cards. An airline credit card gives you an edge over traditional credit card by providing you a chance to win extra flyer miles during purchasing through it.

An airline credit card can provide extra fly miles to the users but often they are unaware of the fact that the credit card company might be charging them high prices as compared to traditional credit cards.

Some of the popular airline credit cards are:

1. British Airways Visa Card
2. Northwest Visa
3. Delta American Express Sky Miles
4. Citi Platinum Select American Airlines Advantage World MasterCard
5. Capital One® No Hassle MilesSM Rewards
6. Citi® PremierPass® Card-Elite Level
7. Blue Sky from American Express
8. Delta Airlines - Gold Delta SkyMiles® Credit Card
9. Citi® PremierPass® Card
10. Continental Airlines World MasterCard®
11. Northwest Airlines World Perks Visa Signature Card
12. US Airways® Visa® Signature

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This is also named as Rapid Reward Visa Card. It is specially designed for the people who mostly travel through air by providing them maximum miles in lowest charges. Rapid Reward Visa Card provides a round trip in 16 credits or approx. $19K which other airlines credit card might offer in $25K and this feature makes it unique in the list of airline credit cards.

Alaska Airline Credit Card attracts people by offering a mile earning over purchasing a single dollar. Alaska Airline offers four major types of airline credit cards which include Alaska Airline Visa Signature, Alaska Airlines Visa Platinum Plus, Alaska Airlines Visa Gold and Alaska Airlines Visa Preferred.


Alaska Airline credit card application can be signed either by getting a form from the airline office and mailing it to them after filling it up or through internet. Both the approaches take almost equal time to process the application.

After and recent bankruptcy United Airline is still improving in field of airline credit cards to get back its lost status. For this purpose their Mileage plus Visa Card has come up with good features. With its risen miles, it gives 20, 000 miles after first purchases. Along with that it also gives a United Discount Travel Coupon worth $25, 1 mile in return of every one dollar purchases and a free thousand miles one way upgrade certificate.

These are specially designed credit cards for the people who travel a lot by providing them extra miles over every purchase made through their credit card. Air miles can be bought by buying air travel and along with that airlines offer various types of rewards for the users of airline miles credit card and due to this fact airline mile credit cards are popular as one of the best credit cards.

Airline Reward Credit Cards either sponsored by bank or airlines, give a chance to users to earn extra miles on that particular airline or any other airline. Usually one mile is earned on spending one dollar through them whereas in some cases hundreds of miles are awarded as bonus only if a person signs up for these credit cards. The drawbacks of airline reward credit cards include high interest rates and relatively higher annual fees.