On Thursday, it was announced that the American Express Gold Card would be refreshed. At Amex, that pretty much always means a higher annual fee, and this refresh is no exception. The Amex Gold Card sits between the Amex Platinum Card and the Amex Green Card. And it’s fully distinct from the Delta Gold CardContinue reading “American Express Gold Card Refresh – 2024”
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American Express Delta Gold Card
Going down another step in annual fee from the Delta Reserve and Delta Platinum cards, it’s time to check out the Delta Gold cards. Like with the Reserve and Platinum, Amex offers both a personal and a business version of this card, and like before, I’m going to cover both flavors of the card here.Continue reading “American Express Delta Gold Card”
American Express Delta Platinum Cards
Having now talked about the Delta Reserve cards, I decided to be a bit more methodical about my airline co-branded card discussions and cover the Delta Platinum cards. Like with the Reserve, Amex offers both a personal and a business version of this card, and like before, I’m going to cover both flavors of theContinue reading “American Express Delta Platinum Cards”
American Express Delta Reserve Cards
Following up on the series of comparisons of the major US airlines’ credit cards, we’re jumping to one of the top-tier cards: The Delta Amex Reserve. The Delta Amex cards are interesting because they offer both business and personal versions of most of them. Since they’re so similar, I’m going to cover both flavors ofContinue reading “American Express Delta Reserve Cards”
Airline Credit Cards Updated Comparison: mid annual-fee versions (2024 edition)
The next step up from the entry-level cards is the mid-tier cards. These cards have fees that range from $199 to $350. Amex just revamped the Delta Platinum Card and raised its fee to $350, which is noticeably higher than the competitors’ cards. The main competitors card is United’s Quest card from Chase ($250). AmericanContinue reading “Airline Credit Cards Updated Comparison: mid annual-fee versions (2024 edition)”
Airline Credit Cards Updated Comparison: low annual-fee versions
Now that we’ve gone through the free airline cards again, it’s time for the mid-level cards, those with an annual fee of around $100. Like last time, I’m going to ignore one American Airlines card, which is the Aviator Blue card. This card has a reduced $49 annual fee, and so doesn’t quite match theseContinue reading “Airline Credit Cards Updated Comparison: low annual-fee versions”
Airline Credit Cards Updated Comparison: free versions
It’s been a while since I did a credit card post, so I decided to go through and update the rankings for the US legacy carriers’ cards. I did the club card edition when American completely revamped its club card, and in that update, I also changed how the scoring system worked, so I’m goingContinue reading “Airline Credit Cards Updated Comparison: free versions”
The Bilt Card (Old version; outdated!)
I have a fun credit card to talk about today! It’s been blowing up the points and travel world since it first came out, and that is the Bilt Card. It’s issued by Wells Fargo and it’s the first Wells Fargo card to be featured on this blog. This card’s claim to fame is that itContinue reading “The Bilt Card (Old version; outdated!)”
American Airlines Aviator Red Card
A while ago, I posted a series of comparisons of the major US airlines’ credit cards. The “entry-level” ($95 annual fee) comparison had two offerings from American Airlines: one from Citi and one from Barclays, which is the topic of this post. I figured I’d start with the Aviator Red Card because that’s the card that IContinue reading “American Airlines Aviator Red Card”
Airline co-branded cards: top-tier club cards: updated!
This post is an update on a post from a year ago covering top-tier airline credit cards. All three airlines have changed how these cards earn status qualification metrics since that post in 2022, but specifically, Citi/American has thoroughly updated its AAdvantage Executive card, so I wanted to redo this comparison before doing deep divesContinue reading “Airline co-branded cards: top-tier club cards: updated!”
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