Trip Planning for Next Year

Do you have a trip you're planning to take next year? This is the perfect time of year to start thinking ahead on those big trips you want for 2019....and racking up those bonus miles for your flights! We find the best way for us to get those big bonus miles that pay for our flights, is through credit card offers.

Personally, we like to go directly to the airline we are most likely to fly to obtain the credit card. Since we fly out of Omaha, that means we are most likely to fly Delta or Southwest.

The perk about Delta is with the card you get a free checked bag when you book using your card, and a free checked bag for anyone you book with your card. So for a couple, if you use your card for the trips, you both will have a free checked bag. And if you click this link, the Delta card will get you 60,000 bonus points for signing up and using the card (make sure to spend the required amount in the first few months to get the max points!)

As we've said before, Southwest is our favorite of all the cards. Even if you don't earn companion pass (where one of you flies fee when the other books a flight) you get 2 free checked bags, they are crazy flexible on flight changes if you decide you want to change your flight last minute, and they are still usually the best deal on the places we want to go. Use this Southwest link to earn points to fly free for your 2019 trips!

Whats the trick to getting the most bang for your buck on these cards? Sign up for only 1 card at once, use it as your primary card, and we suggest paying it off every week (or more) to treat it more like a debit card than a credit card. This will keep you from being tempted to carry a balance on the card. Use it for whatever you are purchasing until you hit the required spending limit, then decide if you have the points needed to fly where you want to go for 2019. If not, keep using the card to score more points!

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