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…
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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 🙁
Regarding #1, I think thats a really nice benefit. See my comments on Gary's blog. It will be interesting to see what ***'s there are regarding the policy.
Well, you might get lucky with Amex Centurion Card's free membership into Priority Club Black...it has many of the CO clubs listed in there. All hope may not be lost for some Amex Cardmembers.
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 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, 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!