The point about the A+ never giving card holders any hassles at all as far as questioning/fraud detecting/etc crap is great. I am a data point, never had anything questioned. Two thumbs up! Now…about all the others…cough!

Why? Maybe because Titans kept writing about it and somebody noticed? 🙂

Collapse the new card’s 1% forex fee with A+ $89 annual fee, and you’re ahead until you have $8,900 of forex charges. Plus no categories or redemtions-it’s all automatic.

Viewed another way, you get a straight 2% cash back on all domestic, plus 1% net overseas, with no fees and no hassles. Not bad on my street.

Two caveats: 1. A+ runs like a dream anywhere. No false declines, great customer service, it just glides. US Bank is untested on this by me.

2. Thread on FT (mostly using Sapphire) was building data points that Visa may use forex rates up to .5% higher than MC. I need to see how the lab work is coming along over there.

Yea, why did Fidelity change the old $100k funding rules? 50k airline points were pretty easy to get. Arrival is a fantastic card to fund C checking accounts with. Just keep increasing that CL every year and the annual fee won’t be hard to swallow.

I don’t agree with it. At the same time, I realize we can not generalize too much in this space because we are all different, with different personalities, current situations, goals, spending patterns, etc etc.

I have kept my Arrival card even with the recent loss of some benefits. I don’t mind the reduction from 10% to 5% but the loss of the under $100 redemptions does hurt. But not enough to cancel it. I have so many bill payments coming through it that it becomes a bitch to drop the card. And the points pile up even at much less pace now that I don’t do much MS anymore…After I redeem them for a paid flight or hotel stay I may decide to drop it.

Me and Fidelity never got along, they have banned me from whoring some cash I have around….multiple times 🙂 And I still find the added hassle of dropping the 2% in a Fidelity account as too much hassle. If someone wants the 2% straight cash back they should just go for the Citi Double Cash, no hassles.

I like simplicity more and more as I get older…

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Off the top of my head, JFK and ORD for sure. And one more city in Florida, think it is Miami…or maybe it’s Fort Myers to Dusseldorf. They are all over Europe, surprised you never heard of them. I flew them last summer, it’s a fine airline.