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MBNA Alaska: Now With a $100 Statement Credit!
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MBNA Alaska Airlines World Elite Mastercard
- Earn 30,000 Alaska miles upon spending $1,000 in the first three months
- Receive an Annual Companion Fare for discounted travel on Alaska Airlines flights
- Earn 3x Alaska miles on Alaska Airlines purchases
- Earn 1x Alaska miles on all other purchases
- Minimum income: $80,000 personal or $150,000 household
- Annual fee: $99
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I just tried to downgrade but the agent said they cannot do it and have to apply separately for the NF card first since Alaska is a different product line.
Applied in Nov or Dec during the $200 credit offer.
Didn’t get approved / receive card until well into Jan.
How does one confirm / obtain their statement credit? Is it supposed to post automatically?
Hi Ricky, the latest TD promotion for Aeroplan cards in Quebec mention (for the first time?) that “Earn 20,000 Aeroplan points when you spend $1,500 within 90 days of Account opening” on the Quebec page of their website. I read the small prints and did not see any exception for Quebec this time. I don’t know, maybe the law has changed. Well, I might try to apply for the MBNA card and maybe I’ll be lucky.
Hopefully the $200 statement credit offer will come back soon, I just missed it this time
Hi Ricky, I have a 16000 credit limit on my MBNA Smart Cash card, can I call MBNA and request the Alaska Card and transfer part of my credit limit from my Smart Cash card to the Alaska Card. If I do that can I avoid the hard credit check and still get all the welcome bonus?
Thanks!
Mike
You can’t initiate a credit split as part of a new application to avoid the credit hit; you can only do it if you were declined and want to split off credit from an existing line to push through the application.
the site now shows January 5th, 2022 as the expiry of this offer
Thanks for the heads up!
If I already have the world elite can I apply for the platinum plus and still get the offer?
You can’t hold the two products simultaneously.
Still unable to apply MBNA, getting auto-declined with messages like “We appreciate your interest in MBNA, but we’re unable to accept your business at this time.” No VPN & No credit check & No records found with MBNA…….
still waiting for the $100 credit from the LAST offer…Not sure how long it takes to process..
Just PS’d this card to the MBNA rewards a few days ago. Is it too early to apply for the card again? I got it 7 months ago.
I’d say give it a few weeks if you can, as the offer goes until January 2022. But if you’re in a rush, you should be fine.
Hi Ricky
So I apply on the Alaska airline site.
Once approved the card is issued by MBNA Canada. Who applies the credit to the card ?
The last time I applied , MBNA Canada will not give me a credit of $100 which Alaska airline insisted I speak to MBNA.
Alaska airlines with not process the $100 credit.. hence I ended paying for the card
Is it Alaska
I am currently have an Alaska World Elite card. Will I be approved for the Platinum Plus if I apply?
Or a better shot would be cancel now and apply at the end of June.
You can’t have both at once. Better to cancel or downgrade now so you can reapply before the $100 offer ends.
Is it possible to apply for both the cards simultaneously?
Apply? Yes. Be approved? No.
Is it possible to apply for both the cards together? or will that be a decline automatically? or just frowned upon?
I cancelled my card a month ago…how long would you suggest I wait to reapply? Thanks
You have a fair shot of going for it again before June 30.
We just reached the $1000 spending threshold and have been credited with the 30000 points on both my card and my wife’s . Interestingly, without the $99 card fee we would not have reached the threshold on either so it would seem that that counts as spending. But we have not received the $100 statement credit yet. Wondering if other people have generally not received the credit and whether we need to spend another $100 or so to have $1000 in actual spending.
I applied for Alaska World Elite in December. Today I got the statement but no $100 statement credit. I chatted with MBNA and they have no clue about this. Is there a way I can get that $100 credit?
Ricky, what do you think of the MBNA Alaska Miles Visa card? I see a current offer of 40K signup bonus with first year annual fee waived.
Seems like you were thinking about the US-issued card by Bank of America. I mean, it’s a great offer! Canadians would need to apply in-branch if they use an ITIN though.
NVM Ricky I got things mixed up …
Do you think if I called in for this offer it would work? I was thinking this might be the offer code – DADI93 – found in the url. I currently have the no fee card from a PS on the Alaska card about 8 months ago and it has a large credit limit. I was thinking it would be easier if I could apply by phone and then have them lower my limit on the no fee version to get the Alaska card approved, if necessary.
Hi George, were you able to PS from the no fee card into the AS card with the $99 fee rebate?
Ricky, I currently have this card. Is the best strategy to change it to a no-fee card (would I get the pro-rata annual fee back), and reapply for it? If the application is declined, would the remedy be to transfer credit from the no-fee card?
Thanks so much Ricky! It is odd though, when I go directly to the MBNA website, I don’t see the $100 credit statement as part of the offer.
Yep, it looks like it’s available only through Alaska Airlines’s channel (the application links were sent in an email, presumably to Mileage Plan members with a Canadian address).
After 90 days and downgrading from the Alaska card to a no-fee card, do you still need to wait 30 days before applying for the alternative Alaska card or are you good to go to apply right away?
Hi Ricky,
I don’t suppose upgrading my Platinum card to Elite would allow me to receive the bonus ? Without cancelling my current card?
Nope, that wouldn’t come with the bonus. It’s only granted on a new application.
Hi Ricky,
Like you I live in Montreal. I was interested recently in getting this card but there seems to be nothing available to Quebecers. The Great Canadian Rebates page also lists the $50 cashback deal as not available to residents of Quebec. In addition, the regular MBNA website for the card, when you choose Quebec as your region, makes no mention of a welcome bonus if you spend $1,000 in the terms and conditions. It seems the MBNA strategy just does not work for Quebecers at all anymore?
It would seem the abscence of evidence is not evidence of abscence.
The Quebec offer makes no mention of a welcome bonus, but it also doesn’t say there will be no welcome bonus. 🤔
Interestingly, the MBNA page in both french and english state that you can get “up to 30,000 points” in the card details further down the page, but doesn’t say it’s a welcome bonus. If you read the terms and conditions in english, there’s no mention of a $1,000 minimum spend, but in the same text in french there is. I chatted online with an agent, but she seemed quite confused. She did conclude that there would be a welcome bonus, but honestly I didn’t really trust what she was saying.
So it would seem there is definitively no GCR rebate or statement credit for Quebecers, and may or may not be a welcome bonus.
But I think you’ve had this card before? Have you had an issue getting a welcome bonus after the $1,000 minimum spend being a Quebecer?
I actually haven’t changed my mailing address from Ontario, as my move to Quebec was likely a temporary one. I’d recommend connecting with fellow Quebecers, who as I understand it have applied for this card with a wide range of outcomes.