Unspecified new benefits for USA AMEX personal Platinum coming Spring 2015?
Jul 8, 2015, 9:44 pm
#151
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Jul 8, 2015, 9:58 pm
#152
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This would really blow as we don't have a Centurion lounge in LA. The priority pass lounges aren't bad, but I usually fly Delta for work.
Jul 9, 2015, 1:36 am
#153
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The odds that Delta will stop being Amex's B _ _ _ _ (think female dog) anytime soon are exceedingly slim. They are drunk on the revenue from selling SkyPesos to Amex.
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Jul 9, 2015, 8:07 am
#154
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(When it comes to SkyClub access, I would not expect for anything the Platinum card offered to be better than the Amex Delta Reserve Card, and they currently both only offer access when flying Delta. But I will note that competing products to the Delta Reserve Card offered by Citi and Chase offer "membership" the their respective airline partner lounges.)
Jul 9, 2015, 8:32 am
#155
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Indeed, must be the rule. Odd thing is, WE were both in the SFO, MSP (was actually DTW above), ATL lounges in the past 1-2 months and only showed the one card. ??
Maybe they just don't really enforce it all the time.
Jul 9, 2015, 9:38 am
#156
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Discussion of the Boingo WiFi benefit has been transferred:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...ingo-wifi.html
Inasmuch as the Boingo benefit was introduced in the summer of 2014, it could not be the rumored benefit which was due in Spring 2015.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...ingo-wifi.html
Inasmuch as the Boingo benefit was introduced in the summer of 2014, it could not be the rumored benefit which was due in Spring 2015.
Jul 9, 2015, 11:03 am
#158
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I find it hard to believe Amex would loose Delta since they have a close relationship even in physical manner having their computer systems connected so Amex computer can query the Delta sky miles account. Also Amex saved Delta by lending them money via a Sky Pesos purchase. But then again who would have thought Amex would have lost the Costco merchant account? I keep thinking pretty women movie. BIG MISTAKE....BIG
Jul 9, 2015, 11:42 am
#159
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I find it hard to believe Amex would loose Delta since they have a close relationship even in physical manner having their computer systems connected so Amex computer can query the Delta sky miles account. Also Amex saved Delta by lending them money via a Sky Pesos purchase. But then again who would have thought Amex would have lost the Costco merchant account? I keep thinking pretty women movie. BIG MISTAKE....BIG
Costco know they have businesses of all sizes banging at their door, amongst them plenty of other card merchants who would call it a big win to steal away Costco - even for a few years - from the clutches of Amex.
Jul 9, 2015, 1:07 pm
#160
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If they lose Delta, I imagine that would be the death knell to the Plat card. I went to a SkyClub twice last weekend and no one mentioned access ending anytime soon. I wouldn't believe what employees there say.
Jul 9, 2015, 1:16 pm
#161
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...eal-with-delta