- Amex now offers a new kind of sign-up bonus: earn points for adding an authorized user! by US Credit Card Guide. Not a surprise to see this at all, American Express has obviously been testing it for awhile now and the targeted authorized user bonuses have becoming more common.
- Seems like some people have been enrolled in Pay Over Time with American Express even if they didn’t sign up. This is an issue as American Express sometimes offers 10,000 point bonuses. It looks like what has happened is that some (all?) cardholders that checked for the 10,000 point offer were auto enrolled even if the 10,000 point offer didn’t show. Would love some more data points on this.
- US considers cabin laptop ban on flights from UK airports by The Guardian. File this away as developing.
- Why pay more? Here’s why paying 25K points is sometimes better than 15K by Frequent Miler. Most people will already know/do this, but worth keeping in mind. Biggest take away is: “always use the most restrictive currency that delivers the closest to the maximum potential value for each redemption”.Â
