The Platinum Card® From American Express

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The Platinum Card® From American Express

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  • Product Details
  • Additional Information
  • Before Applying
  • After Applying
  • Enjoy your Card
  • Enjoy your benefits
  • Enjoy your Points

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Welcome Bonus:

Earn 100,000 points after spending $8,000 in the first 6 months

Rewards:

-5 points on the first $500,000 spent each calendar year on flights. -5 points on prepaid hotels booked via Amextravel.com

Intro APR:

N/A

Annual Fee:

$695

Before Applying

- You can not get the welcome bonus on this card if you had already this card once as the Amex welcome offers are once in a lifetime
- You can apply and see if you will get the welcome bonus before Amex will pull your credit. After hitting apply if you are not eligible a popup will come up and tell you if you are not eligible and then you have a chance to proceed or just cancel the application before any credit pull at all
- You can not get more then 2 Amex cards in 90 days - You can have a total of 10 open charge cards from Amex

Enjoy your Card

  • 5 points on the first $500,000 spent each calendar year on flights
  • 5 points on hotels booked via Amextravel.com
  • 1 point on all other purchases

Enjoy your benefits

Lounge access

Priority Pass
Priority Pass

Access to 1,200+ airport lounges, with a complimentary Priority Pass Select membership

Centurion Lounges
Centurion Lounges

Unlimited complimentary access to all locations of Amex Branded 'Centurion Lounge'

Escape Lounges
Escape Lounges

Complimentary access to all US locations of the Escape Lounges

Airspace Lounge
Airspace Lounge

Access to all locations of the Airspace Lounges

Plaza Premium
Plaza Premium

Unlimited, complimentary access to Plaza Premium lounges around the world. 

Delta Sky Club
Delta Sky Club

Access to the Delta Sky Club (when traveling on a same-day Delta-operated flight)

Lufthansa Lounge
Lufthansa Lounge

Access to select Lufthansa Business Lounges (when traveling on a same-day Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian airlines flight)

Elite status

Hilton Honors Gold Status
Hilton Honors Gold Status

Enjoy complimentary Gold status with no minimum stay requirements

Marriott Bonvoy Gold Elite Status
Marriott Bonvoy Gold Elite Status

As a Platinum Card member, you are invited to enroll in complimentary Marriott Bonvoy Gold Elite status

Hertz President's Circle status
Hertz President's Circle status

Enjoy complementary enrollment into Hertz President's Circle status

Avis Preferred Plus Membership
Avis Preferred Plus Membership

Avis Preferred Plus Membership

National Emerald Club Executive status
National Emerald Club Executive status
Uber VIP status
Uber VIP status

Credits

$200 Annual Airline Fee Credit
$200 Annual Airline Fee Credit

Get a $200 Annual Airline Fee Credit

$200 Annual Hotel Credit
$200 Annual Hotel Credit

Earn up to $200 back in a statement credits on eligible prepaid hotel bookings with American Express Travel's curated collections of hotels: Fine Hotels + Resorts® and The Hotel Collection

$300 Equinox Credit
$300 Equinox Credit

Get up to $300 in Equinox statement credits each year

$189 Annual Clear Credit
$189 Annual Clear Credit

Earn up to $189 in Clear statement credits per calendar year

$100 annual Saks Fifth Avenue Credit
$100 annual Saks Fifth Avenue Credit

$50 in statement credits on a semi-annual basis from January through June and up to $50 in statement credits from July through December

$12.95 Monthly Walmart+ Credit
$12.95 Monthly Walmart+ Credit

Use your Platinum Card to pay for a monthly Walmart+ membership and get the full cost back each month.

$15 Monthly Uber Credit
$15 Monthly Uber Credit

Get a $15 credit each month, plus a $20 bonus in December (for $35 total in December)

$20 Monthly Digital entertainment credit
$20 Monthly Digital entertainment credit

Get up to $20 in statement credits each month at Disney+, a Disney Bundle, ESPN+, Hulu, The New York Times, Peacock, SiriusXM, and The Wall Street Journal

$100 Global Entry / TSA Pre credit
$100 Global Entry / TSA Pre credit

Receive either a statement credit every 4 years after you apply for Global Entry ($100) or a statement credit every 4.5 years after you apply for a five-year membership for TSA PreCheck

Additional benefits

Enjoy your Points

Cashback: Get 0.6 cent per point in the form of a statement credit (Not the best option at all) If you have a Amex Business Platinum you can get 1 cent per point transferred to your Amex business checking account
Amex Travel: You can book travel at Amex travel for flights 1 cent per point and for hotels, cars, etc. 0.7 cent a point If you have a Amex Business Platinum you will get back 35% of the points when booking flights thru Amex Travel If you have a Amex Business Gold you will get back 25% of the points when booking flights thru Amex Travel In order to get the points rebates it needs to be or a business or first class ticket or an economy ticket booked with your previously chosen favorite airline
Transfer to Airlines / Hotels You can also transfer your points to these airlines and hotels at a
1:1 Ratio: Airlines Aer Lingus
– AerClub Aero Mexico
– Club Premier (1:1.6) Air Canada
– Aeroplan Air France/KLM – FlyingBlue ANA – MileageClub Avianca – LifeMiles British Airways – Avios Cathay Pacific – AsiaMiles Delta Airlines – SkyMiles Emirates – SkyRewards Etihad – Guest Hawaiian – Miles Iberia – Avios JetBlue – TrueBlue (1:0.8) Qantas – Frequent Flyer Singapore – KrisFlyer Virgin Atlantic – FlyingClub Hotels Choice Hotels – ChoicePrivileges Hilton – Honors (1:2) Marriott – Bonvoy