The Platinum Card® From American Express
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Earn 100,000 points after spending $8,000 in the first 6 months
-5 points on the first $500,000 spent each calendar year on flights. -5 points on prepaid hotels booked via Amextravel.com
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$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
Access to 1,200+ airport lounges, with a complimentary Priority Pass Select membership
Unlimited complimentary access to all locations of Amex Branded 'Centurion Lounge'
Complimentary access to all US locations of the Escape Lounges
Access to all locations of the Airspace Lounges
Unlimited, complimentary access to Plaza Premium lounges around the world.
Access to the Delta Sky Club (when traveling on a same-day Delta-operated flight)
Access to select Lufthansa Business Lounges (when traveling on a same-day Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian airlines flight)
Elite status
Enjoy complimentary Gold status with no minimum stay requirements
As a Platinum Card member, you are invited to enroll in complimentary Marriott Bonvoy Gold Elite status
Enjoy complementary enrollment into Hertz President's Circle status
Avis Preferred Plus Membership
Credits
Get a $200 Annual Airline Fee 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
Get up to $300 in Equinox statement credits each year
Earn up to $189 in Clear statement credits per calendar year
$50 in statement credits on a semi-annual basis from January through June and up to $50 in statement credits from July through December
Use your Platinum Card to pay for a monthly Walmart+ membership and get the full cost back each month.
Get a $15 credit each month, plus a $20 bonus in December (for $35 total in December)
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
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