Cardless & Qatar have launched their co-branded cards. There are two cards and offers available:
- Visa signature:
- Sign up bonus of up to 45,000 points:
- 20,000 Avios After your first transaction
- 20,000 Avios After spending a total of $3,000 in the first 90 days
- Extra 5,000 points if you joined the waitlist
- $99 annual fee
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 4x Avios on Qatar Airways purchases
- 2x Avios on dining
- 1x Avios on all other purchases
- You’ll get 2 Qpoints for every 2,000 Avios you earn using your card
- Privilege Club Silver
- Sign up bonus of up to 45,000 points:
- Visa infinite:
- Sign up bonus of up to 60,000 points:
- 25,000 Avios After your first transaction
- 25,000 Avios + 150 Qpoints After spending a total of $5,000 in the first 90 days
- Extra 10,000 points if you joined the waitlist
- $499 annual fee
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 5x Avios on Qatar Airways purchases
- 3x Avios on dining
- 1x Avios on all other purchases
- You’ll get 2 Qpoints for every 1,500 Avios you earn using your card
- Privilege Club Gold
- Sign up bonus of up to 60,000 points:
Our Verdict
Unfortunately the sign up bonus isn’t that attractive given the offers we have seen from Chase on the other Avios earning cards. The cards and benefits are also extremely lacking given the high annual fees. Cardless only lets you hold one Cardless card at a time as well, so that is something to consider. I could see some people signing up for the $99 annual fee if they have a need for Avios and have already done better earning bonuses but by no means a great offer. It might be worth waiting to see if the Avianca card is any better before signing up as well.
Just applied after being on the wiatlist for the extra bonus. Denied for one of “several reasons”, but no clarification on which one. No request for more info and cannto find a reconsideration phone#. Qsities are best flying experience out of Altanta to the Middle East. Any suggestions?
Anyone received their physical card? It’s been 10 days since I was approved and no sign of it, virtual card declined everywhere
DP: I wasn’t approved since I didn’t apply for this stupid card.
Cheers
DP 790 credit score, 3/24, 40k, got the request for manual review which I presume is a decline. Ah well, $499 don’t have to eat, but I was planning on taking it for the Oneworld benefit which includes lounge use.
Update: Was approved.
Need to adjust the “Our Verdict”
It’s a limit of one card EVER. Lifetime limit.
Cardless means less cards to apply. Makes our job easy.
Very bad offer and high annual fee. Pass!!!
The infinite card gives privilege gold not silver.
$500 annual fee with no sort of priority pass or flight credits seems pretty awful. Weak sign up bonus as well. Should have been closer to 80k at least.
… and it appears that the status bump is only for the first year.
OW Sapphire for $500 is not a terrible deal depending on your use cases, but I agree that only getting it for a year seems really lame.
If you can MS status its a very intriguing card.
The tricky thing, at least based on my reading, is that you need a minimum of 4 segments operated by QR in order to requalify.
That’s the deal breaker for me. SEA-DOH is a 14 hour flight and so I have little desire to fly all the way out there every year just to qualify for status. If it was just MS I’d be all over it.