Update: Continental OnePass Plus Card Going Away March 1

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.

As you can tell from today’s yesterday post about the official end of Continental, a lot of people have been asking questions about just what that will mean for the Continental Airlines OnePass Plus Card from Chase.

I got word from Chase that the bank will be deactivating links to the card application on March 1, 2012.

"Chase is discontinuing the Continental Airlines OnePass Plus Card, effective Thursday, March 1, 2012. Please note that the links for the Continental Airlines OnePass Plus Card will cease to function as of March 1."

So what I'd recommend is, if you were thinking of getting the OnePass Plus Card, first try for the 60,000-mile bonus offer that I wrote about here. If that doesn't work, here's my link to the 40,000 point bonus application.

Remember, as I said in this reader question post, “United MileagePlus Explorer cardmembers will only receive one 25,000 bonus miles award if they apply for both the United Explorer Card and the Continental OnePass Plus Card after 7/19/2011." So, if you got the United Explorer Card after that date, you're out of luck.

But, if you got a United/ Continental card before that, you should be fine to get this bonus. The rules currently state you won't be able to also get the Explorer bonus at a later time and date, though those rules can change at any time so I'd rather get the Continental card now and worry about getting the Explorer card at a later time and date.

To learn more about the benefits of the OnePass Plus and the United Explorer Card, you can look at this past post.

For a strategy on maximizing Continental/United miles through credit cards, take a look at this previous post.