Update: This offer is expired.

For a limited time, the offer on the Frontier Airlines Credit Card has been increased. With this offer, you’ll get 40,000 bonus points after $500 spend or a $500 balance transfer within the first 3 months. You can also earn up-to 10,000 additional bonus miles with a balance transfer.
There is a $69 annual fee, which is not waived the first year.

Full benefits:

• Earn 40,000 Bonus Miles after spending $500 in the first 90 days
• Earn Up To 10,000 Bonus Miles (1 mile per $1) with balance transfers in the first 90 days
• Earn Double Miles on Frontier purchases and 1 mile per $1 on all other purchases
• Low Intro APR on purchases and balance transfers for the first 12 months after account opening
• Redeem companion tickets for 5,000 fewer miles (subject to fees/taxes from $5)
• $69 annual fee

With Frontier Airlines, it is only 20,000 miles (compared to 25,000 miles on other airlines, excluding short haul flights using Avios) for a round-trip coach award anywhere in the US including Alaska, So 40,000 points is worth 2 round trip domestic flights.

A coach award to Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rica & the Dominican Republic will only be 35,000 miles round trip. Click here for the reward chart

If you need to top off your account, you can transfer American Express Membership Rewards points to Frontier Airline miles at a 1:1 ratio.

You can also redeem your points for Rental cars at Avis, Hertz and National Car Rental. For example, a 1 day intermediate car rental from Avis, will be 7,500 miles, a 7day midsize National Car Rental will be 35,000 miles.

This card has a comparably low $500 minimum spending within the first 3 months, though you can always get American Express Serve to help reaching minimum spend thresholds, as you can upload $1,000 from your credit card, completely free, every month. You can also, for a limited time, get $50 when opening a Serve account. Paypal and/or Amazon Payments will qualify for direct deposit.

Also, a nice perk about Barclays Bank, is that they generally only pull from Transunion no matter your location, as opposed to Chase, Amex or Citi. That mean’s that Chase, Amex or Citi will not see the credit pull from Barclays or vice versa. Though, Barclays will see all of your recently opened cards if they are over 30 days old. Another great thing is that if you are maxed applying for cards from Chase or Amex here’s another great offer you can take advantage of.

‘Bait & Switch’: Note that there are 2 versions for this card, there is an Annual fee Version and a No annual fee version. If if you are approved for the lower end, no annual fee version card, you will only get 10,000 bonus miles. The problem is though, that it’s possible even though you applied for the higher end 40,000 bonus version, that you will only be approved for the lower version card, depending on “your credit worthiness”, so you might want to keep this in mind when applying.

Other Barclays cards with mega sign-up bonuses you might want to consider are the Barclaycard Arrival World Mastercard which offers 40,000 bonus points ($440 Signup bonus!) for spending $1,000 within 90 days, offers 2.2% cash-back on everything, and is one of the best cash back credit cards around. Another card you may consider is The US Airways Premier World MasterCard which offers up-to 40,000 Bonus points. For a full list of all the Barclaycard credit cards Click Here

If you are denied after applying for any of these cards, you can call Barclays reconsideration at 1-866-408-4064.

Update: This offer is expired.

5% Categories Activation Link

Chase Freedom credit card holders can activate their Q1 5% cash back. Even though they are called “5% categories”, in essence, you really actually get 5 Ultimate Rewards points per dollar spent which can either be cashed out for 5% cash back or if you or your spouse have the Chase Sapphire Preferred, the Chase Ink Bold or Plus credit cards you can combine the points into the Sapphire or Ink accounts (read more about how to combine points here) and then transfer those points at a 1:1 ratio into more valuable airline miles.

This quarter’s (January 1-March 31, 2014) 5% cash back categories are, Gas stations, movie theaters and Starbucks. You can earn 5 points per dollar on up-to $1,500 which translates into 7,500 bonus points.

Additionally, If you have a Chase checking account you will also earn a 10% bonus on all points earned on all your spending during 2014. That means you’ll earn 5.5 points per dollar spent in these categories or 8,250 points!

You can also maximize your 5% categories by buying gift cards at Starbucks, that can be used throughout the year, or you can purchase Visa or even merchant gift cards, at gas stations that have convenience stores that sell them (for instance WaWa), as long as they get coded as a gas purchase.

==============================================

Update: This offer is expired.

Chase Freedom – Benefits: 10,000 ($100) Bonus points when you spend $500 within the first 3 months, 1% cash back  for every dollar spent, 5% rotating cash back categories every 3 months, up to $1,500. If You have theChase “Sapphire Preferred”, or Chase “INK” credit cards, the Chase Freedom points can be transferred to the “Sapphire” or “INK” cards making the points transferable to airlines and hotels, and hence more valuable. There is no annual fee for this card, and there is a 0% Intro APR for the first 15 months, on purchases and balance transfers.

“Like” DealsMaven on Facebook (by clicking the above “like” button) and/or “follow” on Twitter to be be updated on other great freebies, deals and more!