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Swift and safe as birds in flight, the giant planes of American airways are setting the new pace

of man's progress. In 1934, American Airlines introduced the first air travel card. Before then,

department stores and gas stations offered shopper plates. These were discs two and a half inches

by one and a half inches, containing the

customer's names and billing addresses. And if you use the plates at the stores, you could

earn purchases. These were the Stone Age version of points, credit card points. What is the

point of points? Well, to hear the credit card companies tell you, it's that you can travel anywhere on their dime or their points.

A lot of people have points, sometimes a lot of points, but don't know how to spend them.

And these days, if you're not maximizing, you're losing.

So there is the nagging anxiety of having this resource and possibly wasting it.

Maybe you're in this position.

Maybe you'd like to learn how to manage your credit card points.

My name is Al, and I have over a million amex points, and I don't know how to spend them.

Al, give me a lay of the land.

What kind of travel do you do?

Well, my family likes to go do a lot of international travel, going to places that we've

never been before.

If we're going to splurge, you know, we like to splurge on hotels so that we have a nice stay. Those are some of the

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