Star Alliance To Launch Credit Card, Redeemable For 26 Airlines [Australian Card]

Update 11/8/22: According to OMaaT it looks like this card will launch in Australia. No sign up bonus and low earning rates unfortunately.

Bloomberg is reporting that Star Alliance plans to launch a credit card and points will be redeemable at any of the 26 partner airlines. It’s unclear what financial institution will issue the credit card. It will be interesting to see what the specifics of the card are, as I imagine airlines such as United will be unhappy to give up market share to a Star Alliance card (as will partners such as Chase).

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  • Americans already have their own versions. Chase United Airlines MileagePlus credit cards. Chase Air Canada Aeroplan credit cards. Chase Sapphire Preferred and Chase Sapphire Reserve credit cards have Star Alliance as transfer partners.
    Chase Ultimate Rewards transfer partners
    Aer Lingus AerClub
    Air Canada Aeroplan
    Air France-KLM Flying Blue
    British Airways Executive Club
    Emirates Skywards
    Iberia Plus
    JetBlue TrueBlue
    Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer
    Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards
    United MileagePlus
    Virgin Atlantic Flying Club

  • It'd be launched in Europe because the US market already has top-of-the-line credit cards.

    Mark my words, and next year you'd find that momma's always right.

    • lol reward credit cards are dead in Europe since they can't charge high interchange fees. There's no money to be made, don't know why you're so confident

      • There's definitely some money to be made by credit card issuers in the UK. Not sure about EU countries. Maybe German issuers can try saddling 3 million Syrian refugees with debt?

        • When ppl say cc is not a zero sum game -- if ppl didn't make stupid choices and drown in high interest debt & everybody got lucrative SUBs, churning wouldn't exist. US cards would be like every other boring ole country with no opportunity for $$. My sister has Amex in her country, but their products are so bad, it's garbo in comparison. Opportunity to end up with millions of points from little to no actual flying is not a thing elsewhere, at least not for the bottom 98%.

  • I’m not too hopeful. My guess:

    1. Not issued by Amex.
    2. Mediocre to non-existent benefits.
    3. Less than 60k sign up bonus.
    4. $150+ annual fee, not waived first year.
    5. Annual transfer cap for a single airline.

  • Would this be something like Virgin Red where points can sit in a pool and you can transfer them to Star Alliance partners as you like?

  • Let's pray hard that card is NOT ISSUED by communist bank Chase - 89% will be declined

  • It sounds interesting, one card I would like to see is a Singapore Airlines credit card released in the US.

  • eventually, it would just become something similar to current transferring program?