The American Express Platinum card comes with Starwood Preferred Guest Gold status (late checkout is the key benefit) and National Car Rental Executive status (choose a better car from the Executive Aisle rather than the Emerald Aisle). They advertise Avis and Hertz benefits as well, but for US cardmembers those are not meaningfully better than what someone gets from those providers on their own. Head for Points reports on a new Hertz benefit — their first ‘elite tier’ “Five Star” for Platinum cardholders. This benefit is only for Platinum card members resident outside the United States. The benefit page for this offer (which has a “GB” at the end of the website URL, presumably for ‘Great Britain’) allows signup of new accounts at the Five Star level. That the terms and conditions say cancelling a…
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Bits ‘n Pieces for October 1, 2013
News and notes from around the interweb: The Department of Justice is asking for a stay in the American-US Airways merger anti-trust trial in light of the government shutdown. We do not know how long the shutdown will last. The Department of Justice wanted to push things off into the future anyway and this gives them probably their most persuasive reason to do so. I’ll be interested to see the airlines’ response and how the judge rules. (Update: The judge denied the request to stay the trial schedule.) There are some travel concerns that, as a man, never even occur to me. TAM will leave the Star Alliance March 30th and join oneworld on March 31. Getting premium cabin awards between the US and South America on TAM is nearly impossible, and intra-South America space…
Diners Club 30% Transfer Bonus to British Airways
Reader John S. points me to a posting by the much-respected ‘mia‘ who writes that the US Diners Club Club Rewards program has brought back a 30% transfer bonus to British Airways through November 30. When I first got my Diners Club card a decade ago there were regular summer transfer bonuses of 100% from the Club Rewards program to British Airways. That bonus was cut in half to 50% around the time that the benefits of the Diners Club card were cut as well (e.g. elimination of two billing cycles to pay, increased foreign currency conversion fees, elimination even of the Diners Club dining program). British Airways has long been the partner they run the most promotions with and now 30% seems to be the new level at which they run promotions even as…
20% Off JetBlue Tickets Purchased Today
JetBlue is offering 20% off the base fare of roundtrip domestic tickets and 15% off the base fare of roundtrip international tickets that are purchased today for travel October 15 through November 20. The discount code is OCTOBER1 and the itinerary cannot include any Friday or Sunday flights. (HT: Stephen M.) You can join the 30,000+ people who see these deals and analysis every day — sign up to receive posts by email (just one e-mail per day) or subscribe to the RSS feed. It’s free. Don’t miss out!
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