Credit-card companies don’t set prices for hotel rooms or plane tickets. Most don’t even operate the travel-booking features connected to their cards—major online travel agencies do. Hopper manages Capital One’s website, and Expedia powers American Express’s consumer-travel site.
Hotels don’t award points in their own loyalty systems and probably won’t offer other benefits to other people who book outside the hotel, says Adam Morvitz, founder and CEO of point. me, a points and mileage search aggregator and booking service.
Using a credit card’s travel site to book a vacation can sometimes provide enough advantages to outweigh potential price differences.
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