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Best airline miles / reward credit card in Ireland

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  • 06-06-2011 7:20am
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    alexboard
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭


    Hi,

    I am looking around for best credit card in Ireland to collect air miles.
    I am with MBNA Ryanair at the moment, but redeeming anything from Ryanair is a pain. Most times, it costs you more than their online fares on the same day. I fly BA and AirFrance KLM most times, but all their programs are with AMEX and you have to have a bank account in the UK or France (that can be done, the AMEX piece sucks, not that well accepted in Europe).

    Anyone knows of a good reward credit card in Ireland?
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    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/credit-card-programs-partners-390/

    Don't have a card but find Flying Blue's a decent program, their promo awards are generous and I'd love to see 'em buy Aer Lingus.


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    alexboard
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭alexboard


    That might be the ultimate solution alright, right now I am stuck with what we have and no luck in a true reward credit card.

    Thks for link, loads abroad, didn't get any luck on cards for Ireland yet


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    cavanman112
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭cavanman112


    There was a skymiles Delta Airlines Visa card that was run by MBNA but I got a letter a few months ago telling me that I can't get skymiles anymore and they are parting company with delta and that the next card issued will be a standard MBNA gold card, so balls to that. I'm on the hunt for an Airline reward card too but as far as I can see there absolutly nothing out there for the Paddys !


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    thesteve
    Registered Users Posts: 902 ✭✭✭thesteve


    It's not looking good either. I tried the international bank account route + UK card but am hitting walls also.


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    #6
    alexboard
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭alexboard


    Just found out that my business AMEX card has a reward program and points are transferable to BA or Airfrance/KLM but not sure which bank does AMEX for personal cards in Ireland and then again, in Europe AMEX is rather useless, half of the places don't accept it.


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    stauntj
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭stauntj


    I currently have a credit card with ulster bank and i get reward points to the value of 0.5%, so 50 cent for every 100 euro I spend. I can then spend the money on ebookers(or argos and other retailers) Its better than nothing but i came on your thread to find something better because half a percent is quite lousy in my opinion.


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    Nonoperational
    Registered Users Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    No developments here I suppose?


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    mydiscworld
    Registered Users Posts: 791 ✭✭✭mydiscworld


    Any updates?


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    kerry4sam
    Registered Users Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    mydiscworld wrote: »
    Any updates?

    Feel free to commence a new thread on this.

    Thread Closed,
    kerry4sam


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