The $895 Platinum Card: Shockingly Compelling | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep324 | 9-19-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we'll talk about the secret to a happy points & miles marriage, chasing "The Infatuation" credits, Hilton's 250K devaluation, and everything you need to know about the refreshed $895 Platinum cards: (Including The Platinum Card® from American Express and The Business Platinum Card® from American Express). We thought this annual fee might be all bad news, but these cards are shockingly compelling!
Giant Mailbag
(01:30) -"I was wondering if you would be so kind and encourage my wife “Lindsey” to try and use the correct card for purchases on the next podcast."
Card News
(06:23) - Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card fights back
(12:36) - Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
(15:37) - Southwest® Rapid Rewards® Performance Business Credit Card
(19:48) - Chase Ink Business Cash® Credit Card and Chase Ink Business Unlimited® Credit Card
Learn more about signing up for Chase Ink cards here.
The Bonvoyed Collection®™
(21:54) - MaxOut Deals
(24:32) - Hilton standard award nights now cost up to 250K points
(26:38) - Citi locking accounts for many Strata Elite customers, requesting tax transcripts
Awards, Points, and More
(30:35) - Hilton for Business offering Diamond status fast track after 10 nights through Dec 15
(31:22) - Now filter to Marriott properties with a club lounge
Main Event: $895 Platinum Card: Shockingly Compelling
(32:54) - Big Picture (all Platinum cards)
See our posts on the consumer cards here and the business card here
(38:15) - Consumer Platinum cards (includes The Platinum Card® from American Express, The Platinum Card® from American Express for Schwab, and The Platinum Card® from American Express Exclusively for Morgan Stanley)
(56:52) - The Business Platinum Card® from American Express
(1:08:58) - What we predicted in March
Question of the Week
(1:16:44) - This reader earned less through their Chase Travel℠booking than they expected when using the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card. We'll explain why the way these points are posted can be confusing and misleading.
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by 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 | On today's episode, we'll divulge the secret to a happy points in Miles marriage. |
| 0:16.3 | We'll go chasing after the infatuation credits. |
| 0:20.5 | We'll talk about Hilton's 250,000 point devaluation. |
| 0:25.3 | And, of course, we'll cover everything you need to know about the new $895 |
| 0:30.0 | platinum cards. |
| 0:32.1 | Frequent Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:35.9 | Today's main event, the $895 platinum card. |
| 0:40.7 | Shockingly compelling. |
| 0:43.0 | So as has been long threatened, American Express has refreshed their platinum cards |
| 0:48.2 | with new bigger annual fees and new and change coupons. |
| 0:53.5 | And shockingly, I'm kind of a fan, at least on the consumer |
| 0:57.8 | side. That's what we're going to cover in today's main event. Yeah, I mean, it's really surprising |
| 1:03.2 | because I just didn't anticipate that creating a $900 card would increase interest in the card. I thought for sure that that would |
| 1:12.5 | thin the herd. And it's interesting to see if maybe this might actually increase interest in the |
| 1:18.6 | platinum card, which is pretty wild to consider. But we'll come back to that later on. Remember, |
| 1:23.0 | if you want to jump ahead to that or you want to come back to something later on, you'll always find |
| 1:26.1 | the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand the show description to find that wherever you're watching or listening. Don't forget to like this. Give us a thumbs up. Let us know that you liked it. Leave us a comment if you didn't and let us know what you didn't like about it or share your opinion in the comments. We appreciate that. Okay, let's drag out this week's giant mailbag. |
| 1:44.7 | All right. Giant mailbag time. This week's Giant Mail comes from Ivan. Ivan says, |
| 1:50.7 | I was wondering if you'd be so kind and encourage my wife, Lindsay, to try and use the correct |
| 1:57.3 | card for purchases on the next podcast. All right, Ivan, turn up your radio so she can hear. |
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