AMEX Priority Pass will exclude Restaurants (August 2019)
 

This is upsetting. This comes across as cheap. I can see many customers being surprised and angry when they get a bill for a Priority Pass visit.

https://viewfromthewing.boardingarea...aurant-credit/

This may not happen. Priority Pass should be able to program their system so that American Express subsidized memberships are rejected by the restaurant POS system.

It will be interesting to see if Citi and Chase do the same, and if Priority Pass continues to offer this feature if there is widespread pushback from card issuers.

So there is a fee hike for the platinum card and decreased benefits? Real "enhancement"

I'll be using my Chase issued PP as long as Chase doesn't do the same.

They could reject the the transaction. They don't do that today for extra guest at a lounge though. For example, I can show up to a lounge with three people. The lounge agent will gladly swipe my membership card. I'll then get a bill for that one extra guest.

Understood, because the membership rules allow you to pay for extra guests. This will be different, because the membership will be invalid at that location. Priority Pass handled this when United Clubs accepted some, but not all, types of memberships.

Oh, FFS ... coupled with the widespread rejection of PPSelect at so many lounges, this is going to seriously diminish PP for me.

That was the origination of Priority Pass Select, right? So I guess this would be Priority Pass Select Select :D

I would skip the SFO Centurion and go to a PP Restaurant. I figure it "helped" AMEX with crowding. I guess that was too expensive. I'll still do that with my Chase Priority Pass membership (for now).

Won't bother me, I have PP cards from 3 issuers. I will just plan to cancel the Amex card prior to paying the next AF, and will be sure to mention this enhancement.

Well, as of now nothing on Canada PP thru Amex but am assuming that is about to change...I've only used this benefit once at Denver but will say it was a nice change vs. lounge

I was going to put [USA] in the post title to avoid confusion. However, the USA changes were confirmed after the Hong Kong changes. I'm guess this is a world wide cost cutting measure.

Can anyone remind me how to distinguish my CSR PP card from my Amex Plat PP card? IIRC the Chase one has 16 digits while the Amex one has fewer digits?

I mostly use the app to get into the lounges now anyway (which I highly recommend for anyone who isn't, btw; one less card to carry and dig out of a wallet or bag while running around the airport) and if my formulation above is correct, it appears I am using my Amex PP card in the app, so I guess I'll have to figure out how to set that up for the Chase PP card instead.

That is, unless Chase follows suit and renders the whole thing moot.

Only a single data point, but I labeled my PP cards when I got them.

Amex PP card has 11 digits, formatted as 3 digits, space, 7 digits, space, 1 digit). Mine starts with a 1.
CSR PP card has 16 digits all run together, no spaces. Mine starts with a 7.

I always get these confused with the changing rules. Am I correct now that:
- Amex Plat-supplied PP gets you+2 into the lounge, but as of August no non-lounge stuff?
- CSR-supplied PP gets you+2 into lounge, and as of right now still valid for non-lounge stuff?

It's not just restaurants that are going away. I use my PP every now and then for a Minute Suite which was a very nice thing to have.