Amex may come out with new cards or some decent changes

[Ricky_D]

Just received email today regarding my Delta Reserve, I am eligible to receive a $100 one-time statement credit after card renewal (just renewed last week).

Also, from now until 7/31/20 earn an extra 3X miles at U.S. supermarkets adding to the 1X for a total of 4X the miles for each dollar spent.

Part of the  changes from Amex?

[Anonymous]

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@Ricky_D wrote:

Just received email today regarding my Delta Reserve, I am eligible to receive a $100 one-time statement credit after card renewal (just renewed last week).

Also, from now until 7/31/20 earn an extra 3X miles at U.S. supermarkets adding to the 1X for a total of 4X the miles for each dollar spent.

Part of the  changes from Amex?

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Yes, part of the temporary Covid-19 benefits!

[Citylights18]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@KJinNC wrote:

The Delta cards get 4x miles at grocery stores. I think they should have done something more than that. Say, statement credit for GrubHub or one of those services. 4x miles at grocery stores would be pretty good most of the time, but right now with people worried about redeeming miles, it's a bit underwhelming IMO.

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Ha, totally off topic but when I recently had to cancel my flight thye reimbursed the "cash" portion to miles. Which IMO was a ripoff, as I paid $180 and 12K miles. They returned 22,000 miles to my account, which means that $180 is only worth 10K miles. Yet to buy that many costs $350! lol I suppose the 3X points I earned charging it to Gold will have to comfort me. 

Yeah non travel cards are not liely to get any of the added perks to keep you. But in reality these small point modifiers are nothing if you can't redeem any points for travel in the next year or two. I'd rather maximise my CB that can be redeemed at a ny time per normal rules, as opposed to putting grocery spend on a travel card with an unknown redemption time frame.

Especially if we see a devaluation post Airline bail lout.

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The devaluation happens when the prices go down but the required points stay the same.

I see that with Hyatt. Hotels that were going for $300 a night requiring a 12,000 point redempiton are now going for $125 a night. 

In this environment something like US Bank Altitude Rewards then might be a better deal because when the $200 dollar Hilton drops to $100 dollars all of the sudden you can get twice as much hotel for your reedemed points.

[credit_is_crack]

Hi All, 

Just got an email from Amex with some temp changes to the Bonvoy Brilliant. 

• 6x groceries
• 3x dining
• dining purchases will count towards the $300 Bonvoy credit from 06/01 - 08/31. It says take-out and delivery, but not sure if that would cover things like Doordash, bitesquad, seamless, etc.. I know bitesquad for me codes as Dining on my BCP so I suspect its the same, but not 100% sure

Free $300 in food  It works 

[NRB525]

Nice! I just got my Hilton and Marriott AMEX emails today. So starting June 1, I get full on dining credit on both Aspire and Bonvoy Brilliant. The Marriott Dining credit is newer. Makes it easy to get through the benefits of the AF.

Edit: Just checked on line, and I got two Corporate Advantage Credits on my Platinum. The AF just hit in March, so I don't get the $200 AMEX Travel Portal credit, which applies to Platinum card AF beginning April 1. The Streaming credit also started to hit two days after my Disney+ bill. We'll see if the CAP credits stick or the figure out the duplicate.

I'm really becoming a fan of AMEX.