The Offer
- Receive a sign up bonus of 30,000 Asiana miles after you spend $3,000 or more in purchases within 90 days of account opening on the Bank of America Asiana Airlines Visa Signature card.
Card Details
- Read our full review on this card for more information on specific benefits
- Annual fee of $99 not waived
- Earns at the following rates
- 3x miles for every dollar you spend on Asiana Airlines purchases
- 2x miles for every dollar you spend on gas and grocery store purchases [Read: Find The Best Gas Or Grocery Store Credit Cards]
- 1x miles for all other purchases
- Receive the following benefits annually:
- Two lounge invitations
- 10,000 bonus miles certificate
- $100 rebate on Asiana ticket purchase
- 200,000 mile cap per year
- No foreign transaction fees
Our Verdict
Previously this card was an American Express card (standard bonus was only 10,000 miles, but was increased occasionally). It recently changed to this Visa signature product and now comes with no foreign transaction fees.
Asiana is a Star Alliance member and you can view their award chart below for partner awards (this is for a round trip, one ways are half the price).
This card would be enough for a round trip in the USA (and almost enough for Mexico/Hawaii, Central America & Latin America 1 after you meet the minimum spend requirement). Would also be enough for a one way flight to Europe. For flights with Asiana this is the award chart:
If you’re thinking about applying for this card, make sure you read these things you should know about Bank of America credit cards. Also remember that they will combine multiple credit card inquiries made on the same day into a single inquiry.
Hat tip to reader Tom A
Anyone have experience with whether Asiana miles earned with the credit card count towards lifetime status miles?
Unfortunately, It doesn’t seem to count as I just checked my account.
is this 30K offer for Asiana Visa card has any expiration date? or is it going to be a fixed offer from now on?
just thinking about when to pull the trigger since i would like to combine the app for this with another BOA card
Not sure if this is the standard bonus or an increased bonus. I’d assume an increased bonus to celebrate the launch, but Alaska also recently went to a fixed 30k minimum offer.
ok great, thanks Doc
i think this card is superior to korean air skypass visa for the fact that one gets 10000 miles every year.
Unfortunately it isn’t quite that simple. I agree that this is a more compelling card offer, but the 10k mile certificates are only useful if you fly Asiana once a year.
i am kinda confused on this point. so, if i don’t use 10000 mile anniversary bonus within a year, do i lose it?
someone please clarify this.
Yes, you don’t actually get 10k miles. You get a certificate for 10k miles rebate if you fly with Asiana. Hope that makes sense. I’ll do a more detailed review of this card shortly.
DP: My experience with BA is business and personal generates separate pulls but would love to hear others.
Also, is there a business version for this card?
2nd question: if I have just got a BA Alaska Visa, can I still get this, or I have to wait 30 days before next BA app? Thanks.
Thanks for DP, there is a business card but only 10k mile sign up bonus: https://www.applyonlinenow.com/USBCapp/Ctl/entry?pid=dasb&sc=UABPUW
No waiting period in between Bofa apps
Do you get the lounge passes, 10k voucher and $100 rebate the first year (i.e. immediately), or only after the 1 year anniversary?
I’m not 100% sure to be honest, it looks like the $100 rebate is first year onwards and other two are second year onwards. Can anybody confirm?
I can confirm from when I had the AMEX version last year. YMMV but my experience was $100 rebate on OZ metal per calendar year (got it twice over the course of my first year with the card) and the lounge passes are also included in the first year (great lounge at LAX and ICN). I want to say I also got the 10k cert but I can’t recall definitively.
William, regarding the BA apps, you state “Bank of America:
Applying for up to three cards at once should result in only one hard pull
Can mix personal and business applications and it should only result in one pull”
But on Flyertalk, they state personal and business are separate pulls. Can you please clarify as this will be a nice card to add, but maybe a 3 card personal app round only.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/credit-card-programs/1333519-alaska-airlines-card-offers-personal-business-now-30k.html
Yes, business and personal will give you 2 different pulls, they do not combine together.
happy churning,
PedroNY
PedroNY, I’m curious about this. For both my wife and I, business and personal DID combine. I last did this Oct 1 2015. I just checked my TransUnion and Experian reports (the two that were pulled) and each only has one inquiry for my Oct 1 applications.
Do you think something has changed since then? Or, does BOA pull from Equifax for some people and maybe Equifax doesn’t combine?
I’ll update this to be YMMV, as I’ve had personal & business combined (and so have others) yet some haven’t had them combined.
So how many can we safely apply for at once? Would you recommend 4 per day? and then again 30 days later?
I read the link you posted but the rules change too fast. I remember people got shot down for applying for 5 Alaska cards per day… not sure what the deal will be with Asiana.
4 per day seems to be the upper limit, I wouldn’t personally be doing that many but each to their own I guess.
Nah.. I don’t trust Korean pilots.
“Receive the following benefits annually:
…
10,000 bonus miles certificate
…”
This certificate allows a 10k mile discount on an Asiana metal redemption and not *Alliance? Or are they actually depositing 10k miles into your account every year?
It’s only valid on Asiana metal redemptions; they don’t just deposit miles into your account. You fax in the certificate when booking an OZ award flight and they discount the cost by 10k.
I updated the post to make this clearer, basically you have to fax it in and then the miles get redeposited so nowhere near as good as 10,000 miles just being deposited unfortunately.
Still not very clear… so to get 10k every year all you need to do is send a fax? If so this card basically pays itself.
You send a fax and the miles get redeposited, it’s not a discount or the miles upfront.
Stopover rules?