Must-have Amex Cards | Ep224 | 10-14-23
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
American Express has a the largest stable of rewards credit cards on the market, but which Amex cards are must-have cornerstones of your wallet? The answers aren't universal, so this week we discuss the Amex cards that could make the cut and who should keep them.
01:23 Giant Mailbag
05:05 What crazy thing . . . did JetBlue do this week?
https://frequentmiler.com/jetblues-mosaic-founderscard-benefit-is-this-a-joke/
13:52 25% transfer bonus from Amex to JetBlue
https://frequentmiler.com/amex-membership-rewards-25-transfer-bonus-to-jetblue-250250/
16:42 Award Talk
16:52 JetBlue is enhancing their elite program for 2024 and beyond
17:45 New JetBlue Signature Perks
19:37 Mosaic 4 members will be able to give Mosaic 1 to another member
20:27 Booking the BLADE helicopter transfers for Mosaic 4
23:21 JetBlue credit card approvals
24:28 AAdvantage Aviator card approvals
https://frequentmiler.com/barclays-aviator-red-now-up-to-75000-miles-with-two-purchases/
26:34 Main Event: Must-have Amex cards
27:40 Transferable points cards
27:44 Blue Business Plus card
https://frequentmiler.com/amxbbp/
30:16 Amex Gold Card
https://frequentmiler.com/amxgoldcard/
32:34 Platinum card
https://frequentmiler.com/amxplat
36:18 Amex Everyday card
https://frequentmiler.com/amxed/
38:50 Amex Green card
https://frequentmiler.com/amxgreen/
40:45 Pick one Membership Rewards card
43:21 Amex Hotel cards
43:27 Amex Hilton Aspire card
https://frequentmiler.com/amxhiltonaspire/
45:51 Amex Marriott Bonvoy Business card
https://frequentmiler.com/spgbiz/
47:23 Amex Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant card
https://frequentmiler.com/spglux/
52:33 Hilton Surpass card
https://frequentmiler.com/hilton-honors-american-express-surpass-card/
55:20 Which is the one Amex hotel card for you?
56:33 Airline cards
57:00 Delta Gold cards
https://frequentmiler.com/dlgold/
https://frequentmiler.com/dlgoldbiz/
57:32 Delta Platinum cards
https://frequentmiler.com/dlplat/
https://frequentmiler.com/dlplatbiz/
59:18 Delta Reserve cards
https://frequentmiler.com/dlrsv/
https://frequentmiler.com/dlrsvbiz/
1:02:22 Which Delta credit card
1:04:27 Question of the Week #1: Is credit card cell phone insurance worth it if you have Apple Care?
1:06:07 Question of the Week #2: For American Airlines partner award bookings, which airlines are not shown on the AA.com website. Can you search Aeroplan's website? Can you call to book more than 331 days in advance?
Music credit: Annie Yoder
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's main event must have Amex cards. |
| 0:30.6 | American Express has a huge selection of rewards credit cards they offer, and some of them are great to have for just about everybody. |
| 0:39.2 | A lot of them are really good to have for people who could really use the particular perks |
| 0:44.6 | and things that they offer. We'll dig into some of our favorites for today's main event. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah, I mean, some of the MX cards are my favorite cards, period. So I'm excited about this |
| 0:54.0 | because I'm definitely a big MX fan. So we'll talk all about that ecosystem today. But first, if you haven't yet done it, please don't forget to like this video, subscribe, enable notifications. I should say like the video if you like the video. But if you know you're going to like it, feel free to like it right now. If not, like it in advance. |
| 1:11.6 | You know, |
| 1:11.8 | at the end, |
| 1:12.7 | just don't forget to go back and like it. And I say video and I know some of you're listening in podcast form. Wherever you're listening to this, we always appreciate reviews, comments, you know, and a little bit of fan participation, so to speak, audience participation. So please let us know what you think. All right. That brings us to this week's |
| 1:30.4 | giant mailback. so to speak, audience participation. So please let us know what you think. All right, that brings us to |
| 1:29.4 | this week's giant mailbag. Greg, drag out the giant mailbag. Yeah, today's giant mail comes from Matt, |
| 1:36.2 | from Kansas City. Matt says, T-Mobile recently changed their auto-paid discount to only include debit cards and |
| 1:43.4 | bank accounts. However, when I expressed |
| 1:46.0 | my frustration and disappointment to a T-Mobile rep, she told me that I could set up |
| 1:50.9 | auto pay with a debit card, but then go in and manually pay with a credit card before my due |
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