Prime Rate Credit

OK, so I’m not sure of all the ins and outs of each card here, but I do now have both a United Airline Miles credit card and a Continental airline miles credit card, and I think I’m really preferring the United card over the Continental card, because I seem to be racking up the points much quicker.

I do know that when I signed up for the United Business Credit card, through Chase bank, they gave me quite a nice amount of bonus airline miles to sign up when I made my first qualifying purchase, so that definitely helped to add to the points I’ve accumulated so far, but it also seems like many more of my business purchases are “qualifying” than they are for Continental, because almost all of my purchases now are adding to my points every month, whereas it seemed like with the Continental card, many of my purchases did not contribute, point for point, to my monthly points stats.

Also, I will say that United seems to outline their rewards program much better by actually sending you emails when there are special new partners, like when you can get two points for every dollar purchased instead of one, and I don’t get any of that from the Continental card. Thoughts, comments on this? I’m wondering if other people have made the same observations who have either card, or both, like me. Personally, out of the two I’d say United has the best airline credit card so far, at least of the ones I’ve tried.

I got the United card to pay for business expenses, and I keep the Continental MasterCard to make personal purchases.