Business Credit Cards with Airline Miles

Even though there is a Continental and United business credit card, the Chase Sapphire(SM) Preferred Card now has the best sign up bonus for Continental and United. They are now offering 50,000 sign up bonus points for new card members. You can get these 50,000 points after you spend $3,000 during the first three months. While Continental and United cards offer 25,000 to 30,000 bonus miles, the Chase Sapphire Preferred Card 50,000 bonus miles can be transferred to Continental OnePass accounts (which can be transferred to United Mileage Plus accounts).

The Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express OPEN is perhaps the best and most popular business credit card for travelers who are members of multiple frequent flier programs. Aside from having a great frequent guest program (where your points are generally worth 3% to 4%), Starwood has partnerships with over 30 airline partners where you can transfer points to miles. And if you transfer 20,000 points into miles, you will get 5,000 bonus miles.

The JetBlue Business Card from American Express OPEN is one of the better airline credit cards with a very reasonable fee and will appeal to business owners who are JetBlue TrueBlue frequent flyer members. As part of the perk of being an American Express Business credit card, you get discounts when you use your card to purchase various items from partner merchants.

The Gold Delta SkyMiles(R) Business Credit Card from American Express OPEN is specifically targeted to frequent flyers of Delta Airlines. Like all other airline credit cards, you can earn doubles miles with this card.

Airtran has won the top spot for low cost carriers in the coveted Airline Quality Rating (AQR) study for 2008 and 2009 and was the recipient of the prestigious Market Leadership Award from Air Transport World in 2010. If you fly AirTran, the AirTran Airways A+ Business Credit Card is something you should consider.

The Hawaiian Airlines Business Credit Card is appeal to the business owner who fly Hawaiian Airlines frequently and most like have business dealing in Hawaii.

The Alaska Airlines frequent flyer program is one of the best around. And the Alaska Airlines Business Credit Card is a good card to have for the business owner who uses this airline a lot.

The US Airways Business MasterCard is for the business owner who travels a lot on US Airways and wants to earn extra US Airways Dividend Miles.

Frontier Airlines is headquarterd in Denver CO and has hubs at Denver, Milwalkie and Kansas City. If you fly frequently with them, then the Frontier Business Credit Card is a card to consider for your business.

I suspect that business owners who travel a lot to Asia (especially Korea) will fly Asiana. The Asiana Airlines Business Credit Card is designed for such business owners to let them earn extra miles and perhaps save money on an international ticket.

The United Mileage Plus® Signature® Visa Card is targeted at frequent flyers of United Airlines who are elite members of their Mileage Plus frequent flier program.