The Offer
- Barclays is offering up to 50,000 miles on the Frontier card after spending $1,000 on purchases within the first 90 days
Card Details
- $89 annual fee waived first year
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 5x at flyfrontier.com
- 3x on restaurant purchases
- 1x on all other purchases
- Earn 1 qualifying mile for every $1 spent
- Family pooling
- $100 flight voucher after you spend $2,500 or more on purchases during your card member year
Our Verdict
Previous best offer was 60,000 miles but the annual fee wasn’t waived. The issue with Barclays cards is getting approved. With huge bonuses on the American Airlines, Wyndham and Hawaiian it might be worth focusing on those offers. You can read these things everybody should know about Barclays cards by clicking here. We will add this new offer to our best credit card bonuses.
Hat tip to reader Diggs
Apparently the card doesn’t give you elite status despite getting the “bonus” miles. Not worth it.
Also, I called Barclay and if you want to convert/downgrade this card it gives you a base version that earns less miles. So you cannot switch to a non-airline oriented card as far as I was informed by the agent.
This is the same for any issuer. You can’t downgrade a cobranded airline card to a nonairline card. Doesn’t work that way.
Yeah, that sounded like it was the case for the American and Hawaiian cards as well. I’ve never had an airline credit card, but my general cards I’ve converted (CSP to Freedom, Citi Premier to cash, etc) historically so I was hoping for the same.
Not true, boa Alaska can be downgrade to cash back cards
Other airline cards offer free checked bag. This card doesn’t, and the credit it tied to spending?
I’m never going to get into Barclay’s with their 6/24 rule. 😔
it may be easy to find +10k miles that’s offered in-flight/past-flight, for total 60k…Someone search around?
@Tony, did that particular “in-flight/past-flight” 60K offer waive the $89 AF for the first year? If not, is $89 worth an extra 10K in bonus points? The 60K offers also tend to have higher minimum spend requirements (perhaps 2K or 2.5) than the $1K requirement of this waived AF (for the first year) offer.
Haven’t seen a NO/WAIVED AF offer for the Frontier CC in a few years, so for those who fly this “Greyhound bus” of an airline, this might be a decent offer.
Had Frontier included a free carry-on (or check-in) bag as a cardholder benefit (a benefit common among other airline CCs), the $89 AF would perhaps be worth it.