$900 Platinum card. Worth it? | Coffee Break Ep67 | 8-19-25
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Another day, another premium credit card is making changes - this time, we've heard rumors that the Amex Platinum and Amex Business Platinum cards are both getting increased annual fees and other changes.
$900 Platinum card. Worth it?
(00:24) - Expensive changes are coming for Amex Platinum and Amex Business Platinum cards
(01:47) - Some changes on the coupon side of things have leaked...
(03:55) - Perks that appear on both cards (business and personal)
Read our post on what works for your airline incidental fee reimbursements here.
(05:31) - Perks on the (Consumer) Amex Platinum card
(06:23) - Perks on the Amex Business Platinum
(07:43) - Do these perks sound worth it for the new, higher annual fee?
(18:58) - Learn more about MaxFHR here.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.1 | $900 platinum card. |
| 0:13.9 | Is it worth it? |
| 0:15.0 | What's going on, Nick? |
| 0:16.0 | $900 platinum card? |
| 0:18.0 | You know, 2025 is going to go down as the year of the ultra |
| 0:21.5 | premium credit card because we have just seen so many changes, enhancements, detractions. |
| 0:27.3 | I mean, a big mixed bag, but I don't think we've ever seen quite so much news in the |
| 0:31.8 | ultra premium card space in a single year. And now the latest is that, yes, the platinum cards are going to go up to $895 a year. |
| 0:41.7 | That's the rumor anyway. We don't yet have that confirmed, but we're pretty confident about |
| 0:47.6 | the rumors at this point. They've been around for a while. So it sounds like both the consumer |
| 0:52.0 | and the business versions of the platinum card are about to increase the annual fee from $695 as we record this to $895. |
| 1:00.6 | We expect this is probably going to happen on September 18th. |
| 1:03.8 | That's the day when we do know for sure that the business platinum card is going to lose, or I shouldn't say that, the business platinum card is |
| 1:12.4 | going to change the 35% rebate when you're booking various airlines. So right now, you can book any airline |
| 1:20.8 | in business or first class. And if you use your MX membership rewards points from a business |
| 1:25.1 | platinum card, you get 35% of the points back, and then, of course, |
| 1:29.4 | also on your chosen airline, whichever airline you've chosen for your airline incidental fee credit, |
| 1:34.6 | same thing, get 35% back in any cap and on your chosen airline. Moving forward, it's only going to |
| 1:39.9 | work on your chosen airline, so it's going to have to be a U.S.-based airline, and it will be in any |
| 1:44.0 | cab, an economy business, whatever, but it won't work on other airlines in business and first |
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