A few of my friends back in college had the standard blue card. That was about 10 years ago though but I know they had some very limited credit back then as well. Amex's credit guidelines may have changed over the last 10 years but back then it was the Blue card for sure.
Starting Score: 609
@Anonymous wrote:With a 649 score from TransUnion I applied for Amex Delta Gold and Amex Jet Blue. Got approved for both. Jet Blue is a better card, with much higher credit limit and lower interest rates.
Just so you know Amex pulls EX not TU so your Ex is probably higher
@Closingracer99 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:With a 649 score from TransUnion I applied for Amex Delta Gold and Amex Jet Blue. Got approved for both. Jet Blue is a better card, with much higher credit limit and lower interest rates.
Just so you know Amex pulls EX not TU so your Ex is probably higher
sadly for me my ex is the lowest of my three by far :-(
@mongstradamus wrote:
@Closingracer99 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:With a 649 score from TransUnion I applied for Amex Delta Gold and Amex Jet Blue. Got approved for both. Jet Blue is a better card, with much higher credit limit and lower interest rates.
Just so you know Amex pulls EX not TU so your Ex is probably higher
sadly for me my ex is the lowest of my three by far :-(
EQ is my lowest and nobody pulls it lol except for Citi
@Closingracer99 wrote:
@mongstradamus wrote:
@Closingracer99 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:With a 649 score from TransUnion I applied for Amex Delta Gold and Amex Jet Blue. Got approved for both. Jet Blue is a better card, with much higher credit limit and lower interest rates.
Just so you know Amex pulls EX not TU so your Ex is probably higher
sadly for me my ex is the lowest of my three by far :-(
EQ is my lowest and nobody pulls it lol except for Citi
oh really thats interesting i thought they pulled ex for citi AA cards. I have least amount of hp on my eq report by far, only 2 or 3 i think.
@mongstradamus wrote:
@Closingracer99 wrote:
@mongstradamus wrote:
@Closingracer99 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:With a 649 score from TransUnion I applied for Amex Delta Gold and Amex Jet Blue. Got approved for both. Jet Blue is a better card, with much higher credit limit and lower interest rates.
Just so you know Amex pulls EX not TU so your Ex is probably higher
sadly for me my ex is the lowest of my three by far :-(
EQ is my lowest and nobody pulls it lol except for Citi
oh really thats interesting i thought they pulled ex for citi AA cards. I have least amount of hp on my eq report by far, only 2 or 3 i think.
Citi Pulled EQ for my CLI and Approvals for Thank you and Simplicity. I only have like 8-10 inq's from Citi i think
@Johnny_Favorite wrote:
I just got approved for delta gold. My aaoa is 1.2 years with multiple accts opened in the past 60 days as well as 10 inquiries. They started me off with 1000 limit.
Similar situation here. My scores were 687 (or something close) with many accounts opened in the past year (in fact all my revolving accounts were opened less than a year ago). AAoA is 1.1 years when I applied for the Amex card. Approved for my Amex Delta Skymiles with a 2800 limit. (recently denied the 3x CLI though).
But seems like the SkyMiles is not that hard to get. I still have a repo left on my report.
I dont know the whole fuss about how difficult it is to get into AMEX but mine has been a very easier journey. But even though I got it easy I love them as they were the ones to extend me credit when Chase and Barclay didnt try to make business. I dont blame Chase and Barclay as I didnt have any credit history. My journey started in Jan when i opened my first secured CC. I waited till May starting when I applied for AMEX Blue Sky and got the 7 day message. They requested for my payslips and once provided they approved my application. I was so happy to get into AMEX. Then on Aug 1 I apped for AMEX PRG and was approved instantly 
. I dont see myself getting approved for Chase/Barclay in the near future and that is why AMEX is going to get my swipes wherever possible and I might not even consider switching to Chase/Barclay when I have a credit history of more than a year or so.
