Ive seen Bus Centurion approval posts on Reddit this year.

Why are you using the prune card? It offers no benefits aside from the 1.5% early pay discount. If you are spending 12 million a year and still not getting what you want, start moving your spending to another bank and inform your rep. You may start to get some movement. Then again, I have no idea why you want to spend 10k for a black card. You'd get more value from the JP Morgan Reserve card. And yes, I was invited twice for the business card a few years ago. I just couldn't justify the annual fee.

i am sorry i am new on flyertalk and only read things in this specific forum.

I am not sure if it is complete BS, because i was told the same thing in 2020. I was even told by a centurion rep that i am in the "list" of people but they are not inviting any new members to join centurion card. Now, i have the personal version, so bus might be different.

i think if your luxury travel is on the personal card, that might not be considered for your business card centurion invite. I am not sure if you feel comfortable but maybe spend more money on bus plat and use it for luxury travel, exotic resorts, and buy some watches.

Discussion of this idea has been broken out into a separate thread: Amex (USA) Centurion vs JPM Reserve comparison

I just received the business centurion invite in July 2021. I spent roughly 9M through all of my business cards and 35M through FXIP wiring program for business in a 12 month period. I don�t think my card spend alone would have qualified me for centurion card but the FXIP spend definitely got me on their radar. The spending requirements have become astronomical these days to get a business centurion invite.

did you do this only in one year or multiple years? can you please tell us how much was it in 2021? and how much in 2019 and 2020?

Thanks and congratulations I have the personal version.

and how did you get the invitation? was that a call or in email or in mail?

thanks

It was quite interesting that we did a one year evaluation from June 1st 2020 to May 2021. My local Amex business rep told me that there was 2 ways to get a business centurion. You could get an invite via total card spend or fxip spend. She told me I didn�t have a shot in hell to get it through my card spend as it was under 10M in a 12 month period. Instead, she said I had a much better chance with FXIP so we started using that service in June 2020 and once I hit my 1 year anniversary with that, the centurion committee sent my rep a notice that I got the invite and she forwarded me the email and I followed up with a phone call.
just curious, why do you want a business centurion when you already have a personal centurion?

Business Centurion has an important benefit Personal does not. You can effectively buy air travel a 2 cents/point using AMEX Travel. If you accumulate a lot of points, this is a good benefit. There used to be other distinctions (Business Centurion used to have unlimited GoGo Internet on flights, but, sadly, this was discontinued).

Got ya. What other differences are there between the personal and business centurion?

Thanks for sharing your DP and congrats on the invite.

For clarification, how long were you a cardmember, and what was your average prior spending? Did you start to use FXIP as a way to get an invite?

Just got a biz cent offer, and I'm pretty sure that me switching from Amex to the new Spark Business cash plus triggered it. I've had a normal "business" spark for years with 2% cash back across the board, but it was pretty much worthless to me with a $100,000 limit because my PO's are usually above that. Spark plus came in at a starting CL of "no pre-set spending" and I've called in twice for $550k purchases and I was approved for both.

With $8m spend a year, I'll take that $160,000 cash back and not even think about accepting a cent invite. Hell, I have a lifetime of MR points banked.

Anyway, move your spending somewhere else, and see what happens.

Thank you!
I have been a business card member since 2015 and a personal card member since 2011. My spend was very minimal with my personal card. For my business card in 2015 my spend was probably around 1M.
2016: 2M
2017: 3M
2018: 3.5M
2019: 4M
2020: 9M
My representative told me that using FXIP would potentially help me get the business centurion card, but could no way guarantee me getting the invite. Once the FXIP program really started to take off, it became clear by Q1 of 2021, we had a good indication that maybe I had a really great chance because my spend was so high with FXIP. Ultimately, I have to believe it was the FXIP that got me the invite. Without it, I would not have received it.

Thanks for the additional DP.

My guess is that you got your invite because of spend. I do think Amex has a $10M spend but I believe they expanded the 12 month time frame as several people reported getting a Bus invite without the 10M/12 month spend.

I'm curious if anyone has any current guidance on spend thresholds for US Centurion personal eligibility? I'm debating whether to move some spend around.