The Discover it Miles card has always offered a $30 in flight WiFi credit, the credit resets on your card anniversary. Discover has sent out mailers to cardholders informing them that on April 1st, 2019 this benefit will be removed.
Despite the Discover it Miles card having no annual fee with the removal of this benefit I can’t see any reason at all to actually keep this card. The card earns 1.5% cash back on all purchases and this is doubled in your first year. The 3% earning in the first year makes it a strong card for every day purchases, but 1.5% thereafter is incredibly weak.
If you have this card my recommendation would be to product change it to the regular Discover it card, as that card earns 5% cash back on rotating categories.
Hat tip to reader M R
I applied and got approved for a new Miles card. Things have not changed as to their rule of max of 2 cards per social. My last Miles card was converted to a regular IT card last Feb so I was able to squeeze another $75 for Q1 grocery store cat. I also kept the high CL on that card and prior to closing a 2 yr old IT card, I requested to reallocate the existing high CL on it to be transferred to the new IT card sent in Feb to prevent losing any CL. Soon as I officially closed my IT card, I applied for the Miles card and instantly approved.
FWR, they did not allow reallocation of CL months ago but I’m glad I asked again and they allowed it this time. I can further confirm that the IT cards are churnable, once you close them and apply for a new one, you will get the cashback match for the first year on the 13th statement.
Just called to cancel my Discover it Miles card, was offered a retention bonus of an extra 3 miles per $ for the next 3 months. That’s enough for me to keep it open for now…
Eliminate the only reason to keep the card… riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Well that kills any reason to get this card except for the first year.
I use the discounted gift cards a lot, especially the egift card options if I have an impulse buy since it’s instant. Their 5% categories can be useful at times too. For a no annual fee card, it still has some uses, albeit a lot less uses now.
That’s the Discover It card, not It Miles..
You’re right. My bad.
You should also blog about the unpublicized break up between U.S. Bank and gogo Wi-Fi
Pretty sure we already did?
Gogo is staying on the Altitude just gone on the Flexperks Visa and Boingo is still on the Flexperks Amex
Are they actively trying to destroy any and all cards? I have the It Chrome, and only for price protection and now that’s gone. The 5% cash back this quarter is grocery stores, which is covered the BCE Preferred at 6%, so — time to let a card go and Discover has been my prime candidate for a long time.
I have a regular It and an It Miles and have been kind of annoyed with Discover getting rid of these features. I’m tempted to cancel the It Miles because I don’t really need it (it’s not that old, have another 1.5% back card, eyeballing some 2% back options), and maybe others will do the same?
They should have kept this benefit.
One reason to keep it would be to take advantage of the Amazon/Discover promotions as that’s an easy $10.
I think that’s the regular It card, not the It Miles.. at least I didn’t got that promo until I PCd.
Ah, I didn’t realize that. I guess that even if you could get the offer on the It Miles card, product changing it to the regular It card would still get access to the Amazon deal with the added benefit of the 5% categories.
Man I used to like discover but nowadays I’m not so sure
Man, Discover has been on a roll with removing lots of benefits over the past couple months. No extended warranty, no price protection, no extra cash back with Discover Deals, etc. And now the Miles card doesn’t even have the airline WiFi perk, which makes it even less of a “travel” card and more of a generic 1.5x card. I don’t get it.