American Express Membership Rewards - Card switch help - MR to Aeroplan Plus




coachboon
Jun 19, 09, 1:58 pm
Hi to all. This is my 1st post so bear with me.

Being leery of current credit card practices, I'm looking for advice on switching from our current Amex MR Gold Card for Small business to their Aeroplan Corporate Card. Amex contacted us. One advantage I like is that the liability on the new card rests with the company - not the primary cardholder as is the current situation. We've had it for 10+ years.

We get to keep our nearly 200K of points. I was worried they'd cancel them but they assure me that is not the case. We do lose the advantage of accumulating points from all the cardholders into one big pot. Points earned will be attributed to each individual card holder.

The points can be used for any airline of our choice :). Air Canada is the only airline that serves us but we can drive to other airports when needed so we don't want to be restricted to just AC. The other Rewards offered don't do us much good so we prefer to use points for airfare and hotels.

Are there any traps here that I'm not seeing?


mia
Jun 19, 09, 4:10 pm
...switching from our current Amex MR Gold Card for Small business to their Aeroplan Corporate Card.... We get to keep our nearly 200K of points.... points can be used for any airline of our choice :)

Looking at this chart and reading your description it sounds as if they are proposing the American Express Corporate Card, which participates in Membership Rewards, rather than the Aeroplan Plus Corporate Card...

http://corp.americanexpress.com/gcs/intl/canadaen/corporatecards/cardcomparison/default.aspx

skofarrell
Jun 19, 09, 5:36 pm
mia is right. Are you sure you aren't being "sold" the standard Green/Gold/Platinum corporate card? Any of the Aeroplan Amex cards only earn Aeroplan points, not MR points.

The Green card earns MR points and those can be moved into Aeroplan or DL, CO, or Cathay Pacific.

Sounds like a follow up call to your Amex rep may be in order.


coachboon
Jun 22, 09, 7:19 am
Thanks mia & skofarrell for your suggestions. I checked the application and it is definitely the Amex Aeroplan Plus Corporate Card. They sent me the application filled out.

However, I will make that call to the Amex rep. Mia thanks for the link. The comparison chart is handy.

Coachboon



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