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Vote for best travel Credit Card
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By Travel card you mean , cobranded airlines card ?
or cards which provide better rewards on travel expense?
If its cobranded airlines card then Vistara Infinite is best vistara co-branded card and SBI Air India Signature is best Air India co-branded card .
For best travel cards which are not co-branded but provide good rewards for travel expense :-
Axis Reserve - 2x Reward points on international spends , 2% foreign markup
Citi Premiere Miles Card - 10 miles for every 100 rs spend on flight bookings in premiere miles website
or cards which provide better rewards on travel expense?
If its cobranded airlines card then Vistara Infinite is best vistara co-branded card and SBI Air India Signature is best Air India co-branded card .
For best travel cards which are not co-branded but provide good rewards for travel expense :-
Axis Reserve - 2x Reward points on international spends , 2% foreign markup
Citi Premiere Miles Card - 10 miles for every 100 rs spend on flight bookings in premiere miles website
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Axis Vistara Infinite has no match in terms of co-brand card. Curious to see which foreign airline has a good co-brand credit card with Indian Banks.
The biggest value back is it gives atleast 2x return as joining and renewal benefits( in form of business class ticket voucher), plus CV gold tier membership upgrade vouchers , extra luggage , priority boarding etc.
on spend of 12 lakhs , 4 business class tickets .
Even if we take 20k for a business class ticket , thats almost 7% return( that can go upto 10% based on your travel sector ) + 36000 Vistara points
It depends upon what route and how early you are making the booking with CV points. Its value varies from 60 paisa to 120 paisa.
Given the fares right now, it is easy to get more than 1rs per CV point.
Magnus is best card, travel or non travel
Even for normal spends you can get more CV points on Magnus vs Vistara Infinite!
If Vistara Infinite gives u Vistara Gold and business class tickets, Magnus gives you 25000 monthly bonus on milestone spends, 5x/10x on Gyftr and Grabdeals.. there is absolutely no match for Magnus.. infact one is doing a mistake by trying to manage spends on multiple cards.. just focus on spending Magnus unless your spends are significantly above 1 lakh per month
Even for normal spends you can get more CV points on Magnus vs Vistara Infinite!
If Vistara Infinite gives u Vistara Gold and business class tickets, Magnus gives you 25000 monthly bonus on milestone spends, 5x/10x on Gyftr and Grabdeals.. there is absolutely no match for Magnus.. infact one is doing a mistake by trying to manage spends on multiple cards.. just focus on spending Magnus unless your spends are significantly above 1 lakh per month
Magnus is not a good card for travel. Magnus is for specific set of customer whose monthly spend is 1 lakh , for someone who has monthly spend of 30 to 60k , Magnus does not make a good travel card neither it provides reward multiplier on international spend nor it provides reward multiplier in travel booking , Atlas provides better rewards on travel for those spending less than 1 lakh . And for people who travels mostly on domestic sector , I think Vistara infinite would be a good deal if spends are not Upto 1 lakh as they can upgrade vouchers gold status , and business class ticket on joining and renewal . Magnus is mostly for those who travel internationally for holidays and spends are 1 lakh per month
Can you explain how?
If u spend 200 on vistara infinite u get 8 CV points. If u spend 200 on magnus u get 12 edge points which gets converted into 9.6 CV points. If u spend 200 on atlas u get 4 atlas miles which gets converted into 8 CV points. Clear winner - Magnus
For travel spends also both Atlas and Magnus have 5x (traveledge for Magnus) so statement that magnus doesn’t give multiplier for travel is wrong.. infact multiplier is higher if buy yatra or mmt vouchers on gyftr and do booking using that as that gets you 10x
And for people travelling on domestic also better conversion to earn on Magnus and convert to CV rather than earn lower CV directly for same spends on Vistara Infinite..
And travel or no travel card or only domestic or international everyone can use gyftr to buy normal vouchers of amazon bigbasket lifestyle swiggy etc from axis gyftr to earn 5x/10x which isn’t available on both Vistara Infinite and Atlas..
And lastly u don’t need to spend more than 1 lakh every month.. even if u do it 2 times a year rewards on magnus are way way better than either Vistara Infinite or Atlas.. In my view as long as there is axis gyftr and 1 lakh milestone one shouldn’t think of any other card.. once they go away one can evaluate what to do..
Agreed. But you do lose out on gold tier and free business class ticket.
Also, I think Vistara infinite gives 6 cv points on every 200 spent, not 8.
I think one should get both the cards. Vistara infinite to get gold status and welcome business voucher. And Magnus to earn cv points. No need to do and spends on Vistara infinite. The annual fee is compensated by the gold status and business class ticket you get.
Vistara infinite
If you don’t understand the miles game , then it’s better to get direct benefits in form of business class tickets .
It’s better you use travel edge for flight tickets , Yatra voucher is not good for booking high priced ticket as only 3 vocuhers can be applied for one transaction .
For hotels you can use MMT hotel vouchers you can get 10x reward points
See https://pointsnerd.in/maximize-vistara for some interesting analysis
Magnus and any of the vistara cards combine so well!
Magnus and any of the vistara cards combine so well!
so 6 is even worse.. 3 for 100 vs 4.8 in case of magnus.. honestly i don’t find vistara gold or domestic business so useful… 1-2 hr flights economy vs business is not big deal... given the vistara network currently more than 50% times one is forced to take indigo only.. i never said vistara infinite is bad card but magnus is just better.. to get those welcome benefits in vistara infinite u have to do some min spend in certain time.. i will rather do that on magnus instead of trying to split my spend over 2 cards...
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