I’ve lately been prioritizing credit card signups with low spend requirements since I prefer putting spend on my U.S. Bank Smartly 4% card.
Last month I signed up for the Barclaycard American Airlines card which had an offer (now expired) for 70,000 points and no spend requirement. I was lucky to get an instant approval with $25,000 credit line.
I’ll happily pay the $99 fee in exchange for 70,000 American Airlines miles. My preference is to pay for flights with miles – even when booking economy flights – due to the cancelling flexibility when travel plans change.
More recently, the Hawaiian card 70,000 points offer came out, also from Barclaycard, and also with no spend requirement. Hawaiian miles can transfer to Alaska which often have good redemptions and are easily worth the $99 annual fee.
At first I was hesitant to add another personal card to my 5/24 count. I was also doubtful if I’d get another approval given the reports we’ve seen of Barclays not typically approving a second card within 6 months.
In the end I decided to lob in an application and see what happens. I got a pending result, and a few days later Barclays called me for more information. They asked me a few questions about job and income, and they inquired about transferring credit line from the American Airlines card to get this card approved. I happily obliged and they were able to approve the card by moving over $10k from my other card.
Some people are even having success at getting approved for both versions of the Barclay Hawaiian card (the other version has a $1,000 spend requirement), but I’m satisfied with the one for now.
At the end of the year I’ll cancel out both the American and Hawaiian cards to avoid paying the renewal fee.
Currently. have a targeted 75k AA Plat offer of $3500 in 4 months. Is that good? Going from 5/24 to 2/24 right now. Called Barclays last month and reestablished a relationship after many years. Working Ink cards now. Would like to do both United cards and both IHG cards. Then do Hawaiian, Aviator Red, Alaska and AA Plat. Then do downgrades. Keep business IHG. That should give me enough for trips from NY to Japan and SEAsia for a while going economy and staying holiday inn style. Any advice appreciated. It’s been many years since I’ve done the points game. And I was an AA club and Holiday Inn card holder both going way back to the 80s.
This is the kind of hard hitting content I come here for.
Sarcasm?
Lol
Barclaycard has me on the no fly (approval) list
this type of ad will ruin this website.
How is it an ad? We don’t have affiliate links for credit cards.
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How is it an ad? We don’t have affiliate links for credit cards.
I took employed the same double Barclay strategy last month P1 and P2. I think it was well worth the HP’s on my 5/24. Thanks
the US Bank Smartly Card has simplified my credit card line up and has allowed me more time for campaigning
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I just did a Barclays 3-fer. AA card, plus both the Barclay’s Hawaiian and Bank of Hawaii Hawaiian (administered by Barclays). instant approved for one card, both others approved after calling in.
plus both the Barclay’s Hawaiian and Bank of Hawaii Hawaiian (administered by Barclays)? do you mean you can get both card? I though they are the same card and you can not get both. Did I miss something here? Thanks.
Bank of Hawaii card is the business version.
No, that’s incorrect.
See the link in the main post above.
Yes, you can get the 70k offer on both the Barclays Hawaiian Air card and the Bank Of Hawaii card
I tried to do both Hawaiian cards and they denied me stating I already have it 🙁 but I only have one of them by Barclays.
Another Advertisement & Solicitation for The US BANK UnPopular Not-So-Smartly Product !!
This is the 2nd Article with an Unrelated Subject to the US Bank that their Product Name being brought up !
Why are you using title case as if your 33-word response were some long-winded title to some overly thought-out dissertation on a subject only a handful of conceited academics would care about? And why is there a space between your punctuation? If I didn’t know better, this comment, combined with the other accusations of this being an “ad,” I’d say something is fishy here. And If I were a bettin’ man, I’d say the IP address to these comments doesn’t originate in the US.
I am glad you’re not a detective and hopefully not an English teacher either otherwise we should feel sorry for your clients and or students. Look at the thread here and check how many other people felt this article sounded more like an Ad than something else,
Hello. My wife and I applied for Hawaiian Airlines credit cards from Barclay’s. Reasons are: we applied for the version of the 70,000 miles sign up bonus where you need to make one purchase to get the full sign up bonus, and transferring miles between Hawaiian Airlines accounts are free for credit card holders. I transferred her mile balance to my account then transferred everything to my Alaska airlines account in order to pay for partner flights for Japan airlines. The Alaska airlines credit card sign up bonus is also 70,000 miles but IIRC you have to pay to transfer miles between Alaska airlines accounts regardless of if the people involved are card holders or not.
Also I had the Hawaiian airlines credit card many years ago (at least 5 years ago) and my wife had the card in 2022 and both of us got the sign up bonuses in January 2025.
Agreed, the Hawaiian card is very useful to consolidate Alaska miles between multiple players as you described
P2 was able to get approved for both AA and HA personal cards from Barclays applying same day, at 6/24. AA had auto-approval, HA went pending but was approved a few days later after a missed phone call from them. $20K credit limit on the AA card, $5K on the HA card.