Frontier Airlines Credit Card Review
Frontier Airlines has undergone quite a few changes over the past several years… a bankruptcy, new corporate ownership, and a merger with Midwest Airlines. Despite all this, they’re still a great low cost choice for certain destinations. But is the Frontier Airlines credit card also a great choice? Let’s take a look…
There are actually a four different credit cards from Frontier Airlines; two consumer versions and two business versions.
The two Frontier consumer cards:
No annual fee card: This is their basic MasterCard for consumers. In a nutshell, the rewards are pretty dismal on this one; you only earn only a 1/2 mile per dollar spent on regular purchases and 1 mile per dollar spent on their airfare (Note: You must use your Frontier Airlines MasterCard to buy the tickets directly from them to get the 2x points. If you buy through a 3rd party website you may not get the double points).
$59.00 annual fee card: This is there other consumer card, but you pay an annual fee to get better rewards. Unfortunately this Frontier Airlines credit card is nothing to write home about either. It gives 1 mile per dollar spent on normal purchases and 2 miles per dollar on their ticket purchases.
The two Frontier Airlines business cards:
No annual fee business card: The rewards on this one are the same as the no annual fee consumer Frontier Airlines card.
$49.00 annual fee business card: The rewards are the same as the consumer version MasterCard, but this one has an annual fee that’s $10 cheaper.
Should you apply for a Frontier Airlines MasterCard?
I think Frontier is a great airline, especially if you live near their main hub in Denver. However I’m having a very hard time justifying their credit cards. First of all, only getting half mile per dollar really bothers me because it’s below average for an airline rewards credit card. But even if you were to pay for the annual fee MasterCard, it’s still nothing extraordinary (and not worth paying for compared to what else is out there). So while I do think they’re a good company, I think applying for the Frontier Airlines credit card doesn’t make sense.
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The Frontier website advertises to apply for their credit card and receive 25,000 miles enough for a round trip ticket and I had received emails because of having a frequent flyer number stating the same. I was making a Frontier reservation the end of March and up popped the offer sign up for a Frontier card and we will credit your account with $75. I thought no time like the present, so I signed up.
First statement arrived gave me $75 credit but only 5,000 bonus points for signing up for card. Thought it was a mistake because that is what you get for the no fee card and I received the World card with $59 fee. They took it under review and said I should see the points on my next statement.
Statement came today no points. Called and was told that the $75 credit offer was for only 5,000 miles and 1 point for every dollar spent. I did not read the fine print and thought I was signing up for the 25,000 bonus point card. BE CAREFUL. I feel I was deceived. The old bait and switch plan. $75 or a free roundtrip ticket??? Dah!!! Barclays refused to give me the 25,000 miles – I even offered to give them the $75 back.
I signed up for the Frontier Card…and after spending $1000 on their card…received a free ticket to any lower 48 state destination. The card worked as it was promoted.
Also..you can set the card up to automatically payoff each month from your checking or savings account…therein avoiding their interest charges.
I was stopped in the Denver airport also. I was mistakenly thinking I was getting just a frequent flyer card … not a credit card. I’ve used it a few times because Sam’s club only takes MasterCard. But I’m going to find something else.
My wife and I did the same thing in the Denver airport, thinking it would be a good way to use their bonus air miles, etc. I pay all the bills in our lives. We have been married for 22 years. We both have excellent credit rating and history. We always pay our bills early or on time. We both received cards.
The shock came when we saw that her interest rate was 15.99 and mine was 25.99! We have now made 6 phone calls to all the places they keep sending us. No one is nice. No one can make any sense of this. No one can do anything about it. There is no logic to their practice except it seems they want to make everyone angry. Their response is terrible. They are difficult to deal with. Don’t do business with Barclay’s, the bank that handles these cards.
I too landed in the Denver airport and was led to believe that we would get a rt ticket for abtaining their card – they stopped me, I wasn’t searching them out. Well we did everything we agreed to but lo-and -behold the company won’t back what their rep promised………………….. sad, very sad.
I was in the Denver Airport and a lady stopped me to tell me about their credit card. I went ahead and got the card with the annual fee because she told me I qualified for the free RT ticket with the 59/year card. I was never told that they decided not to give me the card until after I did the $500.00 purchase within the first 90 days. I called wanting to know where my 25,000 points were that is when they told me. This is just sad that they use these tactics to get people to sign up with them. I would strongly advise to stay away from this company. VERY DISHONEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you keep pestering them they will give you the points…they did the exact same thing to me and i kept calling until they opened a “case” and then i called every day while the case was open…they are very dishonest but if you keep bugging them you get what you should have had in the first place
Same thing happened to us. We sent an e-mail and called with no answer to where our bonus points were. I want to say something to the people who try to stop you in the airport, but they are just working for the system. We are not happy at all with this, but are unable to do anything about it it seems!!!!!!
DO NOT get this credit card, I have had mine for a couple years and generally had some sort of balance on it, I times anywhere from $20-$1600 this was the only credit card that i had and suddenly the website at barclaycardus.com no longer worked so I called in to make my pament and inquired about the webiste and was told they had no idea why it didn’t work….I at that time paid my card off in full and 10 days later they canceled my card saying due to dbt issues……I have no other debt…no car payment and no other credit cards and I rent so not even a mortgage…..this company is out of control..the reps are rude and often say I don’t know I don’t know….BAD COMPANY
I got this card after a bancruptcy. The interest rate was 9%. The bank changed my due date on me and I made the next two payments late. they raised my interest rate to 29%. I get paid once a month on the first of the month. I would do the online payment through my bank and have my bank send out checks to pay my bills. This is why I didn’t see the due date had changed. I contacted them and they looked at my payment history and it always was on time and for the same amount. the two payments that were late were still on the first and they even agreed that it was because the bank (they) changed the due date to be before the first of the month. They said it was routine they did that. They changed my due date back and credited me the late payement fees but still raised my interest rate. I have a new credit card now through my credit union at 9%. Frontier also gave me a credit line of 5K when I opened the account. With my tax return I paid 2500 towards my credit card and this is after I had the card 2 years, they cut my credit limit to 2250. Trying to deal with customer service is awful. They take advantage of people and rip people off. Stay away they are crooked.
this company is horrendous. My husband was traveling a lot and so we used the Frontier/Barclays/Juniper credit card. We are now trying to consolidate our debt and are using Money Management to help us. Two other creditors have agreed to a lower interest rate and a shorter term. Juniper will not respond to proposals, they have outsourced their collections dept, the reps are extremely rude, they hang up or will not help. they keep saying to change the proposals and the MMI rep keeps asking how to do so and they will not tell you how to.
DO NOT USE THEM, HORRENDOUS SERVICE, WHAT A RIP OFF, NOW CHARGING AN ANNUAL FEE TOO, IN ADDITION TO HIGH RATES