American Express Membership Rewards - Now using corp card - best card to link with for MR membership?




goneflyin
Apr 16, 04, 7:47 am
Hi,

While I've done some searches, I'm still at a loss at what route to take to begin collecting MR points on my corporate card. This is the method by which most of our corporate expenses need to be filed, so using a personal card instead really isn't an option.

Here's my criteria:

1. I don't expect to use the Amex for very much, as I _think_ I'd prefer to collect AA miles on a Citi card and will fly AA for most of my business. I am open to other suggestions, however.

2. We use different hotels in different cities, so no particular chain suits me -- however, I can say that we very rarely use *W, so that's not a strong option.

3. I'm being inundated with "pre-approved" offers for various cards from amex, "Rewards Plus", "Preferred Rewards", some gold, some not.

My guess is Rewards Plus Gold is probably best: no annual fee first year, free MR membership, free add'l cards.

Have I come to the right conclusion? Or are there other important factors I'm neglecting?

--goneflyin


TRRed
Apr 16, 04, 12:35 pm
Amex used to allow "certain" corporate card holders to pay a fee to join MR without another Amex cards. I don't know if that is still true. I was with a company that was allowed to do so, and I did. The linkage started around $25 and went to $50, I think. I never knew which "certain" cardholders were not allowed to join MR.

Centurion
Apr 17, 04, 3:10 am
for your corp card to be linked to MR if it is an eligible corp card. Some corp cards can not earn miles for various reasons such as your boss is keeping the miles ;) or your boss negociated a really really good deal with amex such as a rebate, etc.




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