Starting a new role where I will be travelling within EU 2-3/month (previously not had any travel requirement).

Any card recommendations to best utilise collecting points for spending on flight/hotel upgrades?

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Get the Cap One Venture X now while it’s still 100k assuming you can burn through $10k in 6 months which is probably pretty easy in Europe

1) Amex Gold to book your flights (book directly with airlines, not thru portal) and restaurants. If you'll be doing a lot of flights, arguably get the Platinum for the lounge access, but I assume your company is paying for business flights, so you'd get lounge access anyway; 2) Hyatt card and stay at Hyatt properties for 9x points total (make sure to register as a Hyatt member first). If you're traveling for 3 months, that's more than enough to hit Globalist status and get suite upgrades, free nights, 4pm checkout, etc. 3) Capital One for all non bonus category spend.

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