Best travel credit cards
Cards earning bank points you can move to airlines and hotels, or carrying a travel credit or lounge access. Co-branded airline and hotel cards have their own list. Ordered by year-one value: the cash value of the welcome bonus, plus first-year statement credits, minus the annual fee.
24 cards. Offer terms last checked against issuers on September 4, 2026.
How we rank this list
Year-one value is the cash value of the welcome bonus (points at what we think that currency is worth), plus statement credits you can actually claim in the first year, minus the annual fee. Nothing on this page is ordered by how much we get paid.
Where a headline reads up to some number, the offer is targeted or tiered and the big number is a ceiling, not a promise. Those cards are ranked at their base offer, printed in brackets beside the headline.
Where a row says min spend not confirmed, we have not checked that requirement against the issuer yet, and the card ranks below every card whose terms we do know. The full method is on the methodology page.
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