My wife gets her Cathay Pacific Marco Polo Gold card renewed via Amex Platinum

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• Paul says:

  15 Mar15 March 07:30

  I had mine renewed but understand that Amex did this following hike in fee and it is for 1 year from that point. I paid the new fee from aug 12 so ineed to wait till aug 13 to know if it will be renewed for a 3 rd year.
  Thanks for bump on Amex platin sign up bonus. Got my wife signed up on last day. Had the card in 6 days, paid for holiday and have 77. 000 points credited between accounts already. Now applying for credit card to all a cancellation with a month.

• Kavajo says:

  15 Mar15 March 07:35

  …all the benefits of BA Silver – does that include the 100% mileage bonus on paid BA flights?

  • Rob says:

    15 Mar15 March 07:44

    Not if you credit your flight to BA in the end. You would presumably get the bonus in your Cathay account though if you credited it to that.

    For completeness, I should also say that Cathay Gold does not get you a higher baggage allowance on BA above and beyond what your ticket allows. A BA Silver card would do this. For some reason, this is not a standard oneworld partner benefit.

    • Mike says:

      15 Mar15 March 08:06

      No Cathay does not give tier bonuses.

    • GCab says:

      15 Mar15 March 14:31

      I asked about this on Flyertalk and someone kindly pointed me at a BA page on baggage allowance, which states that OneWorld Sapphires do get an extra item of baggage in all cabins.

      The relevant section is here:
      http://www.britishairways.com/travel/bagchk/public/en_gb
      (if you open the ‘Size and weight of free baggage allowances’ tab)

      Information for frequent flyers
      The following frequent flyer members can check, free of charge, an additional bag regardless of their class of travel (except hand baggage only fares). This applies to all customers travelling on the same booking.

      •British Airways Executive Club Gold
      •oneworld Emerald
      The following frequent flyer members can check in two bags in all cabins, on all routes, unless the cabin allowance is greater (except hand baggage only fares). This applies to all customers travelling on the same booking.

      •British Airways Executive Club Silver
      •oneworld Sapphire
      The following frequent flyer members can take the maximum weight of 32kg per bag without paying the heavy bag charge. This applies to all customers travelling on the same booking.

      •British Airways Executive Club Gold and Silver members
      •oneworld Emerald and Sapphire

      • GCab says:

        15 Mar15 March 14:33

        Oops, I meant OW Sapphires can check in two bags in all cabins (not one extra to each category)

        The paragraph divisions have come out unclearly above, so the key section is:

        The following frequent flyer members can check in two bags in all cabins, on all routes, unless the cabin allowance is greater (except hand baggage only fares). This applies to all customers travelling on the same booking.

        •British Airways Executive Club Silver
        •oneworld Sapphire

• xcalx says:

  15 Mar15 March 08:17

  I had the Plat card which I cancelled in Oct 2012 after refering mrs xcalx for the plat. At the time mrs xcalx along with son and DIL had supplementary cards which were also cancelled.. We all applied for and received CX Gold cards in Feb 2012 .
  I am the only supplementary card holder now. 2 days ago 3 of us received the “Welcome to a new year of Gold ” letter . DIL received a Green card complete with luggage tags. The letter started ” We hope you enjoyed your year of Gold ” .

• Hingeless says:

  15 Mar15 March 08:21

  Ms hingeless got a cx gold card on her supp plat last year. An envelope arrived yesterday with a horrible green card. Interesting thing is that she now has her own plat card so lets see if we can turn it gold again.

  • Rob says:

    15 Mar15 March 09:11

    My wife got her card as the supp on my account, she does not have her own Plat

    • Roger says:

      15 Mar15 March 09:53

      Then you are twice (thrice?) blessed! 😀

      I’m now plat-less. Had AmEx been upfront about continuing CX renewal, I may have retained my plat. AmEx told me three times in writing and also verbally that renewal was up to CX, not AmEx, as AmEx paid CX only for the first year.

      Oh, well. I’ve just requalified for BA Silver until 2015 so the need is hardly pressing.

• Geoggy says:

  15 Mar15 March 08:32

  My first year is up in June. It’s the only thing keeping me Plat really, so if no renewal I’m off

• andy21 says:

  15 Mar15 March 10:33

  The card from my first year of CX gold expires at the end of this month, so I hope mine is renewed too! When was your wife’s card due to expire?

  I’ve found having this card very useful, primarily to pre-allocated seats on BA flights, something I do find ridiculous to pay for (especially at £60 each way for Club World!). Exec Club call centre have been very helpful on every occasion I’ve asked them to do this, they will happily take out your BA number (if you’ve booked on your BA account on-line, using Avios etc), apply your CX number which opens up the seat map on-line for you to book seats for free, and then they re-apply your BA number to ensure you earn your BA miles for the flight.

  So I think whilst it might seem anti-BA for Amex to be offering this benefit, I actually think it can drive custom to BA, I’ve certainly flown with BA more than I might have done with the benefit of having a more enjoyable experience through lounges, seat allocations and priority boarding that this card brings.

  I’d love to see this as an ongoing benefit like the hotel and car-hire ones are.

• tangey says:

  15 Mar15 March 10:38

  This is a theory that they are allowing CX gold renewal if this is the first year you paid £450. I don’t think we are at the point yet were someone is in their 2nd year of £450 membership and has gotten the CX card. the rise in fee came in summer last year ?

  • Rob says:

    15 Mar15 March 12:01

    Yes, it kicked in from June I think

• andy21 says:

  15 Mar15 March 12:20

  Interesting thought – this is my first year of £450, my first card was during my last £300 year so fingers crossed. That said my card is due to expire in 15 days and not had anything from them yet.

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