Barclays
The US arm of the British bank is a cobrand specialist: American Airlines Aviator, JetBlue, Wyndham, Hawaiian and more. Home of the famous first-purchase-only Aviator Red bonus.
Application Rules
- ▸Applies a 6/24-style screen: 6+ new cards across all banks in 24 months risks denial
- ▸Sensitive to too many Barclays cards opened close together; space applications by 6+ months
- ▸Reconsideration line is friendly and frequently flips denials
Tracked Barclays Cards
The famous first-purchase bonus card, now closed to new applicants.
The keeper card for anyone who flies JetBlue twice a year.
6x on gas and a status ladder into the Caesars ecosystem.
The Barclays AA business card is gone. Citi owns this franchise now.
A free way to keep TrueBlue points flowing between trips.
The JetBlue Plus playbook with a business wrapper and a bigger bonus.
A casualty of the Alaska merger: closed to new applicants since October 2025.
The only way to make Frontier miles survive your spending habits.
Free Gold status and 5x on gas without paying a dime.
8x on gas and instant Diamond status for under a hundred bucks.
First year Silver status is the real headline, not the miles.
Lounge vouchers and a companion ticket hide inside a forgettable earner.
A cruise discount card living on borrowed time before its September rebrand.
Free WiFi and priority boarding on America's newest airline.
Two points per dollar toward your next Princess sailing, free to hold.
The Princess card's sister ship, flying Holland America colors.
2.1 percent on everything toward any travel, pulled without warning in 2019.
4 percent on dining with no fee, dead within four years.
Mastercard5 percent on gas, groceries and Amazon-as-books, neutered in 2017.
5x across Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic and Athleta, now under the Encore rewards banner.
3x on everything, as long as everything you want is a Chevy, GMC, Buick or Cadillac.
A heavy metal card with a $495 fee and math that never quite adds up.
A 24k-gold-plated card with a $995 fee, the most expensive 2% cash back in America.
The entry-level Luxury Card: $195 for a brushed steel card and 1% back.
5x on Priceline bookings and automatic VIP Gold status for the name-your-own-price crowd.
3% on gas and drugstores plus a rare 2% medical category, built for the AARP demographic.
3% on airfare, hotels and car rentals with no annual fee and no foreign transaction fees.