On Thursday we wrote about what we thought were changes to the Chase United Explorer Business card. Several readers asked if these were actually changes to that card, or if this is a new card. This is somewhat important as the terms state:
This bonus offer is available to you if you do not have this card and have not received a new Cardmember bonus for this card in the past 24 months.
The old Chase United Business Explorer is no longer available for new sign ups, but the card is mentioned on the Chase United credit card page alongside other discontinued products. When asked for a response Chase provided this following statement:
The United Business Card is considered a new product. We will stop acquiring new customers into the United Explorer Business Card portfolio, but nothing will happen to existing cardholders. They will not lose any benefits and can keep using their cards as they usually would.
Any reason I should close my existing/old United Business Explorer before applying for this new product? It sounds like I should be eligible for the sign-up bonus on this new card even if I still have the previous product, but want to be sure. Also, I don’t want to close my existing card yet in case I don’t get approved for the new product and lose my existing card perks.
Anyone have an answer?
spend $10,000, earn 100,000 miles. $99 fee. Seems worth doing if you can do the spend. Maybe time it for property taxes and/or insurance payments.
Will this card also have expanded saver award availability like United explorer cards?
Yes.
Funny how THAT is the Premiere benefit they barely advertise.
Wish I knew this two days ago before getting the personal United and used my last spot to bring me to 5/24 :/ Could have totally applied for both. Bye100K points.
Will walking into a Chase branch count towards 5/24?
(Yes)
Yes, I love it when products continue to live on.
Amazon Business Visa, anyone? 😉
Is PC available? This change actually seems good
Still waiting for a Hyatt Business card…
+100
This is great news for someone who is cycling through all Chase Biz cards while under 5/24 and already applied for the old United Biz card. Now this gets you to cycle through 7 total Chase Biz cards, instead of 6, so get total of 12 Chase cards in your cycle of 7 business + 5 personal. Great news for that silent minority of us.
Cheers,
PedroNY
Just wanted to give you some type of ‘Karma’ for reminding me of this… We have a new kid so travel less, and thusly are a ‘perpetual P2 at 4/24’ family. I try to gift my less fortunate family-friends flights and the United 100K would open up those ‘invisible’ seats you only get from having the card.
This is actually (mostly) good news, at least for me. I still find United miles pretty useful. I have the old UA Explorer business card, and it provides enough value to me that I find it worth keeping. If they killed some of those benefits, I’d probably be tempted to ditch the card. The statement above that “nothing will happen to existing cardholders. They will not lose any benefits and can keep using their cards as they usually would.” is reassuring.
It also means I could technically go after the new card to scoop up another SUB, which is somewhat tempting. (I have all the Ink cards I need, thank you.)
Thanks for posting this clarification.