As you might know, I love the arrival card! But amazingly haven't used it to redeem until today. This is mainly due to having very little 'real travel' expenses until the little one came along, and everything changed. This post will show how the 10% rebate works on the arrival+ card, it is pretty neat.
Step 1 go to Rewards>Travel Statement Credits (the left option)
Cash Statement Credits redeem at 0.5 each, so you would get terrible value here!
Not all things that you think of as Travel will be listed here, but if you have anything, then you have found the place to redeem. Anything that you redeem here creates a points credit of 10%, they redeem in blocks, here is how it worked for me.
Knocking out the Iberia Charges on my account
I had a $620 charge from Iberia, and a starting points balance of 58940 miles. They allow me to apply 57500 to this charge, with a remainder of 1440.
The 10% bonus immediately applies to the account, you can see the bonus here of 5750
Interestingly, you can only apply such a credit one time - when I went back into Travel Statement Credits" the original $620 line item vanished, so I couldn't stack the 10% into that for perpetuity. However, as I had two line items, a second for $281.31 I could apply the new points to that instantly.
This time I applied 5000 points, for $50, this reduced the $281.31 down to $231.31, granted me a new 500 bonus points, and removed that line item from the redeeming options.
Starting Points Balance 58940
Redeemed 57500+5000 (62500)
Ending Points Balance 2690
So by using the 10% travel bonus the original 58940 miles grew into 65190, but now I have no more travel expenses to apply my remaining balance of 2690 towards.
Hope that helps some new folks considering this card, or those who haven't redeemed yet!
Step 1 go to Rewards>Travel Statement Credits (the left option)
Cash Statement Credits redeem at 0.5 each, so you would get terrible value here!
Not all things that you think of as Travel will be listed here, but if you have anything, then you have found the place to redeem. Anything that you redeem here creates a points credit of 10%, they redeem in blocks, here is how it worked for me.
Knocking out the Iberia Charges on my account
I had a $620 charge from Iberia, and a starting points balance of 58940 miles. They allow me to apply 57500 to this charge, with a remainder of 1440.
The 10% bonus immediately applies to the account, you can see the bonus here of 5750
Interestingly, you can only apply such a credit one time - when I went back into Travel Statement Credits" the original $620 line item vanished, so I couldn't stack the 10% into that for perpetuity. However, as I had two line items, a second for $281.31 I could apply the new points to that instantly.
This time I applied 5000 points, for $50, this reduced the $281.31 down to $231.31, granted me a new 500 bonus points, and removed that line item from the redeeming options.
Starting Points Balance 58940
Redeemed 57500+5000 (62500)
Ending Points Balance 2690
So by using the 10% travel bonus the original 58940 miles grew into 65190, but now I have no more travel expenses to apply my remaining balance of 2690 towards.
Hope that helps some new folks considering this card, or those who haven't redeemed yet!