Amex Platinum vs an Airline Club membership
Apr 23, 2021, 8:45 am
#16
Join Date: Feb 2006
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The AmEx lounge product is great, but lacks the coverage of whatever your main airline offers. Unless you are primarily a WN customer, makes sense to use the $200 travel credit to offset the cost of a lounge from your home airline.
Also n.b. An Alaska lounge membership for the next couple months makes way more sense than an Admirals Club membership.
Also n.b. An Alaska lounge membership for the next couple months makes way more sense than an Admirals Club membership.
Apr 23, 2021, 4:11 pm
#17
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Arizona
Posts: 5,688
YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BUY A DAY PASS WHEN THE EXCREMENT HITS THE FAN! I actually have guilt as while I was being accommodated the Admirals club lady kicked out a military member who normally would get free entrance and I am ashamed I did not grab him and tell her he was with with me and to take care of him since he took care of our country.
Apr 23, 2021, 10:24 pm
#18
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: middle of nowhere, formerly TYO/EWR
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YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BUY A DAY PASS WHEN THE EXCREMENT HITS THE FAN! I actually have guilt as while I was being accommodated the Admirals club lady kicked out a military member who normally would get free entrance and I am ashamed I did not grab him and tell her he was with with me and to take care of him since he took care of our country.
I would probably side with the AMEX Platinum for the greater lounge access plus still having Delta lounge access. The AMEX centurion lounges are so much better than any standard domestic lounge...
Apr 24, 2021, 9:47 am
#19
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Mass
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The problem is that, for the year before the pandemic anyways, the few times I did use the AA concierge s4ervices, there was not much more they could do to help anyways. Airlines so overbook their flights that there just was not anything that could be done. How things are going to be post pandemic, we will have to see.
I probably won't be back to full schedule flying for a few months anyways, until things get better (I am higher risk). So I may wait and see how things shape up - which airlines it turns out I fly; what the new fee and rules are with the upcoming AMEX Plat changes; what the new lounge access rules are, etc.
I probably won't be back to full schedule flying for a few months anyways, until things get better (I am higher risk). So I may wait and see how things shape up - which airlines it turns out I fly; what the new fee and rules are with the upcoming AMEX Plat changes; what the new lounge access rules are, etc.
Apr 24, 2021, 12:31 pm
#20
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: YYZ
Programs: All Accor Plat, 1865 Voyager, AE E35K, HH Gold,Hyatt, Hrtz Gold, Marriott Gold, NEXUS
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And the Plat can also help in a pinch when there are IPROPS. I was flying on Delta and connecting in Atlanta when a big storm that came in literally minutes after we landed and knocked out most of the departing flights. It was chaos and line-ups for Delta customer service were huge. I used my Plat to get into the Delta lounge and was looked after right away. No line up.
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Apr 24, 2021, 12:56 pm
#21
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