Skift Business Traveler: Getting Into the Credit Card Game

What to Know Now Several separate parties over the last few weeks have asked me about the best credit card for business travel so I figured I'd bring it up in one of our columns. Most analysts seem to agree that the Starwood SPG Amex and the Chase Sapphire (or iteration therein) work best for travelers because of their airline-agnostic points programs. That means that you can earn SPG or Chase Ultimate Rewards points in a separate account and disburse it to almost any airline in a huge network when you need the miles, rather than being locked to one American or Delta card and program. I won't link to either card because I'd rather not endorse them in this newsletter, but you'll find plenty of writers out there with plenty of deep (and profitable) links. So here's what you need to do: keep an eye on the Flyertalk credit cards forum and watch for bonus deal from either credit card. A 40,000 or 50,000 point signup bonus shows up pretty frequently and that's the time to apply. You can check The Points Guy and View From the Wing for tips as well, just know that they're going to take a profit off of your linked application. Note that a big component to having a rewards card is knowing when to spend your points, but that's a topic for another day. Subscribe to the newsletter