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Use Amex Travel And Earn An Extra Membership Reward Per $1

          If you use Amex Travel to book certain travel purchases and pay with your Membership Rewards program-enrolled American Express Card, you will earn one additional Membership Rewards point per $1 spent.  These travel purchases include air, prepaid hotels, vacation packages (flight + hotel packages), American Express Vacations packages or cruise reservations. […]

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Earn Extra Membership Rewards Points With The Amex OPEN Savings Benefit

                American Express OPEN offers various cards for small businesses such as the American Express Business Platinum card and the American Express Business Gold Rewards card.  Built-in to these business cards is an OPEN Savings benefit.  This benefit provides either a 5% discount or 2 additional Membership Rewards points […]

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New American Express Business Platinum Benefit As Of July 1, 30% Membership Rewards Points Back When You Use Pay With Points

  Right now, when you use Membership Rewards Pay with Points to pay for all or part of your flight, hotel, vacation or cruise booking on the American Express Travel site, you can get 20% of the points back as a credit to your Membership Rewards account. Then American Express made a change and effective […]

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If You Have An Amex Platinum or Gold, Don’t Forget To Bring It To Pay For Baggage Fees

Recall that every year, American Express Platinum and Business Platinum card members receive up to $200 a year in statement credits when incidental fees, such as baggage fees, flight-change fees, in-flight food and beverage purchases, and airport lounge day passes, are charged by the airline to your Platinum card account.  In addition, with the American […]

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I have 10 complimentary American Express Internet Passes Waiting In My Gogo Account

  Recall that a new benefit for American Express Business Platinum Card Members is access to the Gogo Preferred Program exclusively from American Express.  This means that Business Platinum Card Members will be able to access 10 complimentary Gogo inflight internet passes each calendar year. I just signed up for mine.  I got an email from American […]

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American Express Business Gold Rewards Gave Us 8,000 Membership Rewards Points For The Trouble Of My 2 Minute Phone Call

  Recall that as of January 23, 2015, you can choose one of the five categories to earn 3x Membership Rewards points per $1.  (You earn 2x Membership Rewards points in the remaining four categories and 1x points on all other purchases).    These categories are… Airfare purchased directly from airlines Advertising Gas Stations Shipping […]

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