Bits: Amex Platinum USA goes metallic, £19 Monarch deal, Uber hits Chichester

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• Physci says:

  3 Mar3 March 03:48

  Certainly not the first metals amex in the U.K. – the Centurion card has been metal for many years.

  • guesswho2000 says:

    3 Mar3 March 04:01

    Centurion card isn’t exactly mainstream though, is it!

• The_real_a says:

  3 Mar3 March 05:34

  ok i admit it. Im a hit of a plastic snob. A metal card would be quite cool actually.

• Nick says:

  3 Mar3 March 05:49

  So, presumably, you’ll need to remember to take it out of your wallet at airport security and put it in a bin for the scanner?

  • Waribai says:

    3 Mar3 March 06:12

    That’s what you are supposed to do anyway!

• David says:

  3 Mar3 March 06:29

  The Centurion Card won’t set airport scanners off, but I guess a stainless steel platinum card will.

  I don’t think the card will be in the UK for a while, Centurion took 2 years after the US, they will have to test if they can add a contactless chip etc.

  But I agree it would be nice, I have Centurion already, but my Supps would like a metal platinum I’m sure.

• tony says:

  3 Mar3 March 06:42

  Note that Monarch black out period doesn’t cover the Easter weekend.

  • @mkcol says:

    3 Mar3 March 09:02

    Also note that Monarch cancelled their Dreamliner order ages ago 😉

    • Rob says:

      3 Mar3 March 09:07

      I know, but I like the picture!

• Ian says:

  3 Mar3 March 07:09

  I sure hope they don’t make the same change here. I’m not willing to spend an extra £100 just for a metal card. Uber credits mean nothing to me because I boycott the company. We don’t have the MR point multipliers for spending categories on the UK card, so if they were to bring that in then it could offset the fee, maybe.

  • David says:

    3 Mar3 March 07:11

    I agree, they removed all multipliers from Centurion, so to be honest, I can’t see them putting them on Platinum

  • Oh! Matron! says:

    3 Mar3 March 09:21

    If there’s a price increase, I’ll be voting with my feet.

    The £100 increase we had a couple of years ago was bad enough but the Uber credit is not enough to offset this.

    US users also get $200 of credits towards airline charges, like seat selection and stuff as well.

    And $200 towards their trusted traveller schemes

    What do we get in blighty? Jack all.

• Paul says:

  3 Mar3 March 07:28

  What my card is made of is of little concern and I am certainly not paying more than I do now for the privilidge. There was a mail shot earlier this week telling me how much I saved by having the card so perhaps a price hike is just around the corner.

• Alan says:

  3 Mar3 March 07:46

  5x MR points for Amex Travel spend on the US card now too – sadly nothing anywhere near that good for us!

  Lifetime Diamond is the other way to get a metal card (I don’t have one myself, but have seen one) – a bit of an effort given the number of stays required though!

  I really wish they’d offer a better MR earnings rate on this card. As it is I almost never use it to pay for things anyway, so the metal card would hardly ever be getting an outing!

  • Sundar says:

    3 Mar3 March 08:28

    In a Digital age, I would rather have a Virtual card than a metallic one…why waste a bit more of the earthly metal if we will cut it down in a few months/year….

    • Arun T says:

      3 Mar3 March 10:53

      Good point – cutting up a metal card when you’re done with it can’t be fun!!

    • the real harry1 says:

      3 Mar3 March 21:01

      metal doesn’t disappear & can be recycled

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