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News and notes from around the interweb:
- Qatar Airways Is Basically Just Trolling The Electronics Ban Now. No — while the electronics ban is poorly thought through Qatar is offering a laptop loaner service to minimize the loss of traffic from the ban and one-up Etihad which is offering loaner iPads. Qatar’s CEO even says Mideast carriers aren’t being singled out by the ban.
- The Platinum Card by American Express is now metal. But people wanting to replace their current plastic cards with new metal ones are facing delays. American Express is low on new metal cards, they clearly should have planned better, remember that Chase ran out of metal for Sapphire Reserve cards as well.
If you say your card was lost or stolen though they’ll still send you a metal one right away it seems.
I requested my metal card on Thursday morning, they told me I would receive it on Friday. It turns out that they Fedexed it to me on Saturday for Monday delivery — delayed, but I should still receive it, getting in under the wire before they started running low.
- 1000 bonus miles from MileagePlus shopping
- Why Bargain Travel Sites May No Longer Be Bargains. Mixes up online travel agency and metasearch sites at times, and is too sympathetic to the claim that a brand’s own hotel website offers the best pricing (which can be total bunk).
- Last year a passenger on a flight in India was charged with intent to outrage a woman’s modesty when they refused to stop videotaping a flight attendant. Once again that law has been called upon to charge to men who made lewd remarks to an Air India flight attendant on a London – Delhi flight.
- Will United order new jets from Embraer or Bombardier?
Received my metal card on Saturday, ordered on Friday.
i requested a metal card immediately and i received a card in the mail- and it was plastic. A lil frustrating…
That headline….
Practically speaking, more Credit cards should be made from metal. I have had brand new cards get warped in the car due to direct sunlight and heat. Using the chip reader is an adventure, as well as gas station pumps.
I have had numbers get rubbed off to the point of unreadable. Usually, this happens long before the expiration, so I am stuck with a constant reminder to treat it with fragility. Or just switch to a metallic Sapphire Reserve, which is not always the best choice, particularly at the pump.
For high volume users, I would think banks would prefer to give their customers a metal option.
Don’t the metal cards trip up the tea metal detectors?
Amex told me my metal card would could not arrive until April 11.
Well, just got a shipping email that it’s on a FedEx truck today (April 4).
Metal or plastic. Who cares? They both do the same, just not the same for the cardholder’s ego. I’ll keep my plastic AMEX Plat.
Albeit, the metal one looks beautiful.
I didn’t even request a metal AMEX card, but impressively FEDEX delivered my replacement card within 18 hours! American Express may have decided to provide me with this new card because of a recent fraudulent charge to my account.