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While this is hardly surprising thanks to the merger with United and strong ties that both companies have with Chase, it still stings. The partnership between American Express and Continental will officially be ending on September 30, 2011 (yes, that s over a year from now).
What does that mean? As an American Express Platinum card holder, cheap hotels singapore you ll no longer have access to Presidents Clubs. And equally bad, Continental OnePass cheap hotels singapore will no longer be a transfer partner cheap hotels singapore with Membership Rewards. While there are other excellent Star Alliance frequent flyer programs linked to Membership Rewards, most notably Air Canada s Aeroplan program, there are some regions where Continental was best. While Aeroplan is great to Europe, South America, Australia, and most of Asia, they have insane award rates to the Middle East and India, cheap hotels singapore for example, where Continental was the way to go. So for travelers traveling to those regions, this is a big blow. And Continental is also a partner with Emirates, so that was the most practical way to get an Emirates flight with Membership Rewards points.
$200 Airline Fee Credit Cardmembers can check a bag or enjoy an in-flight meal on American Express. Every year American Express will cover up to $200 of incidental airline fees that are charged on the Cardmember's enrolled Card on a selected airline. The $200 Airline cheap hotels singapore Fee Credit can apply to fees such as baggage fees, flight change fees, in-flight food and airport lounge day passes.
20% Travel Bonus When Cardmembers use Membership Rewards Pay with Points to pay for part or all of their travel including airlines, cheap hotels singapore hotels, cruises and vacation packages, they will get 20% of those points credited back to their account. For example, if a Cardmember cheap hotels singapore redeems 30,000 points cheap hotels singapore to pay for an airline cheap hotels singapore ticket, American Express will credit 6,000 point to the Membership Rewards Cardmember's account.
cheap hotels singapore I m not surprised. With UA not having the AMEX contract in place, I m not surprised that they decided to can the contract that CO has.. I was looking forward to transferring my amex points to CO and using them on UA once the merger occurs, but
BOOOOOO Seeing as most of my miles earned are on Continental, I loved being able to use my AMEX points to top off my earned points for free tickets. That said, I have pretty much switched entirely to Aeroplan for domestic redemptions if I am using AMEX points. The 5,000 miles on Economy and 10,000 miles on Business/First redemptions cheap hotels singapore that you save do kind of add up.
What really makes me sad, however, is the confirmation that Amex will no longer get us into President s Clubs. I was hoping that the merger would have the opposite effect, cheap hotels singapore and give us access to RCC s too, but apparently we just lost PC access
Doesn t bother me at all. I have been trying to redeem my rewards on Continental for 2 years now. NEVER anything available. The flights i used to get now cost twice as many miles as they used to. Continental s miles are a sham now anyway. Good riddance!
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