This page will list items that count as travel and can be redeemed for 1 mile = 1¢ and which don’t count as travel and can only be redeemed for 1 mile = 0.5¢ for the Barclay Arrival credit card.
Not counting as travel and you believe it should?
Contact Barclays, in most cases they will be willing to make a one time exception if you could’ve legitimately thought it should be counted.
Counts As Travel
- Booking.com: 1
- Delta gift cards: 1, 2
- Hotwire: 1
- Lfyt rides: 1
- MBTA Commuter Rail: 1
- NYC Metrocard: 1, 2
- Orbitz: 1
- Priceline.com: 1, 2, 3, 4
- Southwest gift cards: 1
- Undercover tourist: 1
- Viator (although they had some problems redeeming and had to call): 1, 2
- WMATA (Washington DC Metro): 1
Doesn’t Count As Travel
Most of the trains in Europe will be coded as rail-freight instead of rail-passenger and as such won’t count as travel. This is because the businesses pay a lower credit card processing fee on rail-freight when compared to rail-passenger purchases.
- Airport parking: 1
- Amusement parks (although these are clearly not listed as counting as travel): 1
- Chinatown buses: 1
- Gas: 1
- Gotobus.com: 1
- IHG Points + Cash purchases: 1
- Italian Train Travel (coded as rail-freight): 1
- NYC taxi: 1
- Points.com: 1
- Japan Rail pass: 1
- SNCB Europe (coded as rail-freight): 1
- Thalys train (coded as rail freight): 1
- Thello Train (night train between France & Italy, was coded as freight): 1
- Trenitalia: 1
- Uber: 1
Conflicting Reports