Airline credit cards offer a variety of flashy perks, including welcome bonuses of tens of thousands of miles, companion tickets worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars, access to airport lounges and free checked bags. One of their most fundamental perks, though, is about saving time rather than money: priority boarding.
This benefit, included with many airline credit cards, can get you out of those long gate lines in time to find overhead space for your carry-on bag before the rest of the passengers trundle aboard.
Given the complex boarding process by which most airlines board their passengers these days, it isn't easy to do a side-by-side comparison of cards from one carrier to the next. Still, this list should give you a general idea of which airline credit cards you might want to carry for this specific perk.
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