Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Pacific Northwest
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Arrivals+ - first annual fee posted. Spend about $20k on the card. Called to ask for a fee waiver. Denied, but after some prodding was forwarded to a US based account specialist who agreed to downgrade to the NAF Arrivals card. Includes a 1000 point bonus offer for using the new card once.
By the way, pay attention to the T&C they read to you. It will say something about award points getting wiped out. That indeed happened. I had some 2300 points left and they were lost in the downgrade. So be sure sure to up as many points as you can if you want to downgrade. Not a big deal to me; I have no intention to use the new card unless facing a kiosk style credit card terminal that refuses my other cards. And I would have lost them anyway if they hadn’t agreed to the downgrade and I had instead closed the card.
Last edited by notquiteaff; Jan 19, 2020 at 6:22 am