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Old Oct 13, 2006 | 8:41 pm
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awake_at_midnight
 
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by boxweaver
The Chairman card is very feature packed and very reasonably priced if you are interested in airline lounges. Rewards program is very generous. They could be changing to AMEX because of the higher merchant fees which would help offset the cost of the program. This option wasn't available to them when Chairman first started.
That makes alot of sense... I'll bet Chairman Card holders charge alot more than the average Citi cardholder. It would make sense to put it on the AMEX platform. I am willing to bet that the new WorldElite platform probably has higher exchange fees. However, I do not know which is higher.
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