About a month ago, American Airlines enhanced the value of their Citi® / AAdvantage® Card with additional added benefits. In the past, I personally did not think the card was worth it after earning the initial bonus for new applicants. It really added no value at all when compared to all the other credit cards… Read full article

Welcome to Round 2 of the credit card showdown. This series is due to a session that was presented at the Frequent Traveler University conference this past weekend (which you can read more about here). I posted the first debate a few days back, which was between the United Explorer card and the British Airways… Read full article

Hot off the press – between now and May 31, you can transfer your American Express Membership Reward points to British Airways Avios and receive a 50% bonus. Typically, for every 1,000 Membership Reward points you transfer over, you’ll receive 1,000 BA Avios points, but with this promotion, you’ll instead receive 1,500 Avios points. There… Read full article

Twitter + Amex are still going strong and continuing to add new partners ever since their promotion launch last week (original blog post). Through March 31, tweet “@AmericanExpress #AmexBestBuy10″ and you will receive a one time $10 statement credit for a single purchase of $10 or more. Essentially, if you make a $10 purchase, it ends up… Read full article

Twitter just launched a new promotion where you can synch your AMEX card and receive some decent credit statements for your everyday spending! I am personally loving American Express right now (see prior blog post) as I’ve received a boatload of statement credits (close to $1,000!) with them recently and this is just one more… Read full article

Currently, there is NO bonus offer with the American Express Business Gold Rewards Card, however, TODAY ONLY (Wednesday February 29th), this card comes with a 75,000 bonus point offer! This is the 2nd time I’ve seen this one day only special – the last time was in November and Mr. Deals jumped on this opportunity…. Read full article

American Express is currently running an awesome promotion for using your Amex cards at participating NYC merchants. I’ve written about this promo in detail here and have fully taken advantage myself. Unfortunately, the number of registrants was limited and the maximum number of Cardmembers have already registered. For those of you who have already registered… Read full article

Yesterday, the public offer for the American Express Premier Rewards Gold credit card was officially bumped up from 15,000 points to 25,000 points! While the initial spend increased from $1,000 to $2,000 in the first 3 months, I am glad to see this offer finally be somewhat acceptable compared to the other cards out there…. Read full article

I’ve received many emails and comments regarding American Express’s mix-n-match promotion, so figured I’d answer them all here for everyone to view. You can read this prior post to learn more about this promotion, but as a quick recap – use your Amex at 2 participating NYC merchants and get $50 statement credit if you… Read full article

Over this past year, I’ve actually made money just by having an American Express credit card – well four of them! American Express has run some amazing promotions where in total I’ve received $822.50 back in statement credits and gift cards. This has paid for the yearly fee of all four cards, while also putting… Read full article