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The JetBlue Plus Card is now offering a welcome bonus of 60,000 TrueBlue points after just $1K in purchases in the first 90 days. That’s a huge offer for just $1K spend. Based on our conservative Reasonable Redemption Value of 1.33c per point, that’s about $800 worth of airfare for $1K spend, and you may do slightly better depending on your redemptions. That’s a great deal for low spend.
The Offer & Key Card Details
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80K Miles ⓘ Non-Affiliate 80K miles after $1K in spend in 90 days and payment of annual fee. $99 Annual Fee Note that the landing page prompts you to enter a mobile phone number to continue the application, but you can click "no thanks" to continue the application on your desktop device. FM Mini Review: Frequent JetBlue travelers should seriously consider this card for its terrific perks. The combination of the 10% rebate on awards and the annual 5,000 point bonus make this card a keeper. Earning rate: 2X restaurants and grocery ✦ 6X JetBlue ✦ 1X everywhere else Card Info: Mastercard World Elite issued by Barclays. This card has no foreign currency conversion fees. Big spend bonus: Earn 1 tile for every $1,000 in purchases. Noteworthy perks: ✦ Free checked bag ✦ 5000 bonus points every anniversary ✦ 10% point rebate on awards ✦ $100 statement credit w/ purchase of travel package ✦ 50% savings on in-flight purchases |
Quick Thoughts
As noted at the top, the key here is that it’s a big return for very low spend. If you live in a city served by JetBlue and can find a halfway decent use for points, this could be a really nice signup bonus given the low bar of entry. While JetBlue doesn’t have the wide network of partner flights enjoyed by legacy carriers in airline alliances, you can reasonably expect to get 1.33c per point. According to Greg’s work, you’ll likely get more like 1.43c each, but we adjusted airline miles downward in May of 2019. If you do get closer to one and a half cents per point, you’re darn near even in terms of the value of the welcome bonus compared to required spend.
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Just an FYI JetBlue flights under the blue basic which is JetBlue’s cheapest fare can’t be booked with points. I’m not sure if that’s factored into the current value of JetBlue points but they’re much less valuable than they used to be.
Confusing to say the SUB is worth $800, but the 1st year estimate is just $549.
-$99 for annual fee, -$20 for opportunity cost of spending $1,000 elsewhere… what else? Why isn’t the 1st year estimate around $680?
We don’t manually figure first year value — it’s just determined automatically by the spreadsheet based on our Reasonable Redemption Values minus first year fee minus spending opportunity cost (more or less exactly what you note).
Unfortunately, as a high school math teacher always liked to remind my class, there’s a “u” in “computer”. In this case, that “u” (or, rather, *I*) forgot to change the welcome bonus to 60K points in the column used to determine first-year value. In other words, I just forgot to switch it from 50K to 60K in the key spot in our spreadsheet to get that first-year calculation. My bad.
You’re absolutely right that it should be about $680 (or just over that as you’ll now see since I fixed that).
I’ve had the JetBlue Plus card for several years. Is there any language or data points on whether I can get a second card with the bonus?
Just did your link and got instant approval. Thanks for the 60K heads up.
Here’s a data point. Applied last night and application went into review–8 to 10 days. Immediately called the number on my Aviator card, asked to be transferred to a credit analyst, and volunteered that I knew my credit line on the Aviator card was large and I was willing to split it with the new JetBlue card. Analyst said he appreciated the call and told me I could divide it between the two cards however I wanted. Approval for the JetBlue card came through a few minutes later. Had done this successfully with Chase before, but never tried it with Barclays.