AMEX Travel - Spend 200£ or more, get £50 back
Jan 6, 2020, 5:23 am
#16
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: BRS
Programs: BA Gold, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 4,993
Agreed.. there are some useful offers sometimes but that £200 off £600 or whatever it was that appeared nearly every year justified the annual payment for the Plat card. If it doesn't show up it might be time to bin the card.
Jan 6, 2020, 5:25 am
#18
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Cambridgeshire
Programs: Varies
Posts: 1,296
Jan 6, 2020, 5:33 am
#19
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: BRS
Programs: BA Gold, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 4,993
Jan 6, 2020, 5:54 am
#20
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 89
For those in the thread having difficulty with higher fares on AmEx travel: sometimes there is a (pretty well hidden) ability to select different fares for the same flight (such as a HBO fare). Alternatively, in the past I have booked flights by phone where the booking was not possible online and received a manual credit.
Jan 6, 2020, 6:24 am
#22
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: LHR/ATH
Programs: Amex Platinum, LH SEN (Gold), BA Bronze
Posts: 4,489
Yeah agreed. I find the 50 GBP off offer good, I also used the Lufthansa 15 pound off offer earlier in the year and of course the famous shop small where I got like 35 GBP back. Looks like they are cutting back on the good stuff.
Mar 5, 2020, 1:02 am
#27
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA GGL, A3 Gold, M&M SEN, FlyingBlue Gold, AS MVP Gold, Hilton Diamond, IHG Spire Amb
Posts: 902
So we’re in March already and there’s no sign of 200 off 600 spend on amex travel. Is the general consensus that that’s gone and not coming back? 😢
Mar 5, 2020, 3:15 am
#28
Ambassador: Emirates Airlines
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manchester, UK
Posts: 18,611
Yeah, I'm thinking this will be my last year of Amex Plat. £575 was already getting expensive, and if there's no £200 cashback...
Mar 5, 2020, 3:24 am
#29
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: London
Programs: BA CCR/GGL, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 3,483
I had the spend £200, get £50 off offer on Platinum x 2, but the flights I wanted to book were more than £50 more expensive than on BA.com, so didn't bother. The hotels I wanted to book were closer to the same price, but then I won't get Hilton Diamond perks, which are normally worth something to me...