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
Airport parking (RDU, January 2023) doesn’t count as travel.
SO uber still does not count as travel?
what about booking airport parking through way.com or global airport parking.com?
Hey, the article on Close a Savings Account Online is up to date, which definitely help novice like me. Barclay Arrival credit card was really new to me and possibly for some other people as well.
Does buying American miles count as travel for redemption purposes?
Amtrak gift card does not count
Do Lyft Gift Cards post as Travel?
I want to know this as well. Although when I try to buy these it errors out on Lyft website.
Marriott Gift Cards at 20% off counted as Travel for me, Travel Reimbursement already posted
EZPass/tolls anyone? I tried a small amount but that is not sufficient to tell if qualifies for redemption as it requires $100+.
I tried EZpass a while back and it didn’t work.
No, I tried that in Maryland and Barclays would not make an exception when I called in to ask for redemption at one cent per point.
Undercover Tourist coded as Travel. So did my booking at the Great Wolf Lodge on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.