With the point devaluations of 2013, the Barclay card is moving up in usefulness. I actually got one last week to take the sting out of flying to Boston twice in May. The bonus has a value of $440 when you redeem for travel.

However, your Chase preferred gets 2x on travel, so if you're close to an award you may want to put hotel, flight, etc of the honeymoon on that.

Or, another route right now is Southwest airlines card has a 50,000 point offer. That's at least two roundtrip tickets somewhere.

Two other options are American and the US Airways card. Get both of those and the points are good for either airline since they are merged. With the offers available, getting both should net you 80/90,000 miles total.

Note: the frequent flyer accounts won't merge until probably later this year.

This post was edited on 1/19/14 at 10:18 am

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Posted by Chasin The Tiger

Lake Travis, TX

Member since Sep 2012

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Posted on 1/19/14 at 10:17 am to Teddy Ruxpin

I just signed up for both SW cards. That will net me 104,000 points. Another 6000 gets me a companion pass for 2 years. 110,000 points is worth 9-10 flights.

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Posted by BACONisMEATcandy

Member since Dec 2007

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Posted on 1/19/14 at 10:33 am to Teddy Ruxpin

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Note: the frequent flyer accounts won't merge until probably later this year.

I don't think it will happen that quickly. That is generally one of the last things they generally do other than rebrand the planes.

Southwest and air tran still have not merged theirs together.

Another option is to get your fiancé to sign up for the CSP and merge the points y'all have right before y'all want to use them