Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points

Amex Platinum is letting you order a metal card immediately – and a quick benefits reminder

Links on Head for Points may support the site by paying a commission.  See here for all partner links.

The new American Express Platinum fee and benefits package kicked in yesterday.  You are now looking at a £575 annual fee, with the carrot of a £10 monthly Addison Lee credit and a metal card.

When we originally wrote about the launch of a metal card, I joked that American Express would be facing a large number of claims from existing holders of The Platinum Card who had ‘lost’ or ‘damaged’ their old plastic one.

As it happens, this isn’t necessary 🙂

New American Express Platinum card

If you log in to your American Express account, click on Account Management and then Order A Replacement Card.

Select Replace Metal Card and a new card will be sent out to you ASAP.

Don’t forget to register for onefinestay

There is one other thing to note.

The Addison Lee benefit of £10 credit per month is automatic.  Remember to use code RIDE8 on your first trip, which gives you an £8 saving as long as you spend over £15.

However, the 2nd new offer – $200 cashback on every onefinestay home rental you book – requires registration.

The registration link is on the same page as registration for all of the hotel and car rental status upgrades.  You need to log in and go Benefits & Help (top menu) and then Platinum Benefits.

Scroll down to where it offers onefinestay enrollment.

Want to earn more points from credit cards? – April 2024 update

If you are looking to apply for a new credit card, here are our top recommendations based on the current sign-up bonuses.

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

Barclaycard Avios Plus card

Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard

Get 25,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £10,000 Read our full review

Barclaycard Avios card

Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

5,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £20,000 Read our full review

You can see our full directory of all UK cards which earn airline or hotel points here. Here are the best of the other deals currently available.

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard

18,000 bonus points and 1.5 points for every £1 you spend Read our full review

Earning miles and points from small business cards

If you are a sole trader or run a small company, you may also want to check out these offers:

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 12th May 2024, the Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa card is offering a bonus of 30,000 points, convertible into 30,000 Avios. You must have a Limited Company to apply. Click here to learn more and click here to apply.

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year Read our full review

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

Huge 30,000 points bonus until 12th May 2024 Read our full review

For a non-American Express option, we also recommend the Barclaycard Select Cashback card for sole traders and small businesses. It is FREE and you receive 1% cashback on your spending.

Barclaycard Select Cashback Business Credit Card

1% cashback uncapped* on all your business spending (T&C apply) Read our full review

Category

American Express Platinum card

Comments (177)

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.

  • sayling says:
    12 Jun12 June 07:47

    Previously, when a card reached end of life, the advice has been to cut it in half/ pieces – I guess this will be a bit difficult with metal.

    Mind you, I assume it is also more environmentally friendly than plastic

    • Alex M says:
      12 Jun12 June 07:52

      I imagine how much more energy it required to mine that metal and produce the card. I am also pretty sure it will not be recycled and will just go to wasteland eventually. I don’t think it is more environmentally friendly.

    • mradey says:
      12 Jun12 June 07:57

      Centurion cards can be sent back to Amex for recycling – they will send out an envelope with prepaid postage.

      I keep my cards, building a rather nice collection of Titanium.

      mradey

    • PaulC says:
      12 Jun12 June 08:03

      I’ve always said I don’t know how people manage without a good vice and decent hand tools.
      Household essentials now to include a hacksaw and vice for destroying old Credit Cards. HaHa

      • Pierre says:
        12 Jun12 June 10:09

        So many uses for a metal card with a little bit of DIY:
        Ice scraper
        Cheese or butter knife
        Cellphone stand (might require more than one metal card though)
        Multitool business card
        make-up mirror

        Any other ideas? 🙂

        • Spurs Debs says:
          12 Jun12 June 15:32

          Chopping a line of coke … maybe ask Certain MP’s the best way to go about that.

        • xcalx says:
          12 Jun12 June 15:46

          “So many uses for a metal card with a little bit of DIY:
          Ice scraper”

          Not the greatest idea metal on glass, as I found to my cost when one frosty morning I had the light bulb idea to use a wallpaper scraper on windscreen.

  • Ian says:
    12 Jun12 June 08:24

    Am I covered?

    Applied to upgrade from Green to platinum last week. Was approved and my green card disappeared from my online account and was replaced by a platinum, even though I still as of this morning have not received my platinum card.

    However, I was still able to use my green card and transactions I made showed up on my platinum card online.

    Yesterday I paid for a holiday to Spain next week on the green and like other transactions it has shown up on the platinum card account online.

    I’m assuming my physical platinum card will arrive before I go.

    So even though I have used the green card the holiday looks like it’s been bought by the platinum card I haven’t received yet.

    As such, an I covered by all the travel insurance benefits of platinum for this trip?

    • Genghis says:
      12 Jun12 June 11:36

      Yes – you’ve used a “card” which is part of your “account”.

  • Steve says:
    12 Jun12 June 08:44

    I didn’t see this mentioned in the original article but the Amex Plat Business membership fee is still £450 and the card is still plastic.

    • Rob says:
      12 Jun12 June 08:46

      It is. Will do a separate piece on this at some point.

    • LUKE says:
      12 Jun12 June 09:52

      Does anyone know if they plan to change the business card to metal? I see the one fine stay benefit is available to register for and have added this to my account.

      • Rob says:
        12 Jun12 June 10:23

        It would be weird for a fee difference so big to exist – although Bus Plat benefits are weaker, except for the insurance. No Hilton, Melia, Shangri-La etc.

        • Go says:
          12 Jun12 June 18:19

          Do the priority pass cards one the business card allow a free guest? They used to but I’m sure I read that this is no longer the case. For me that’s quite a decent benefit

          • LUKE says:
            13 Jun13 June 09:38

            Yes you get 1 free guest – tested multiple times this year

          • LUKE says:
            15 Jun15 June 22:11

            I genuinely lost my card last night. Called up to my surprise she said your new business card will be issued in metal. I’ll see Tuesday

  • The Streets says:
    12 Jun12 June 09:11

    I love how they are still advertising 18,000 points to refer a friend in the Benefits section of the Platinum Card…. if only this was true!

  • BS says:
    12 Jun12 June 10:00

    anyone got their metal card yet? I’m not sure whether to trust amex’s timeframes.

  • Doug says:
    12 Jun12 June 10:27

    Enrolment has only one l …

    Ha, all this talk of changed benefits and all I can point out is a spelling slip; I must get a life.

  • JS says:
    12 Jun12 June 10:29

    Just been playing around with onefinestay:
    Very expensive, min 3 night stay, but prices inflated on the shorter stays so you pay the equivalent of a week’s rent for a 3 night stay. Price per week will still be a min of $300/night and more likely $5-600/night. $200 credit is basically insignificant.

    • Rob says:
      12 Jun12 June 10:31

      Yes, I realised that when it was first announced which is why I’ve not been overegging it. Even in ‘cheap’ countries they do not have cheap properties.

      • meta says:
        12 Jun12 June 11:55

        It depends on the time of the year as well. I looked at Thailand towards the end of March and was getting $180-220 per night for 5+ nights, so almost getting 5 for 4 which is not too bad. I also looked at Christmas and it was double that.

  • ashic says:
    12 Jun12 June 10:29

    Does the £10 of Addison Lee credit work across transactions, or is it for one ride only? e.g. If I take a £16 trip with Ride8, and my bill is £8, do the £2 of remaining credit roll over to the next ride?

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.

New to Head for Points?

Welcome!  We’re the UK’s most-read source of business travel, Avios, frequent flyer and hotel loyalty news. Let us improve how you travel. Got any questions? Ask them in our forums.

NEW: Sign-up bonuses boosted to 3,000 and 18,000 points

Latest Forum Posts

Get 40,000 bonus points (worth 40,000 Avios) and £300 dining credit with The Platinum Card

Check reward flight availability instantly for free!

See a whole year of reward seat availability on one page at SeatSpy.com

Get £10 when you spend £150 on your free Currensea card

Booking a luxury hotel?

Our luxury hotel booking service offers you GUARANTEED extra benefits over booking direct. Works with Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, The Ritz Carlton, St Regis and more. We've booked £1.7 million of rooms to date. Click for details.

SME? SPECIAL OFFER TO 12TH MAY EARN POINTS WORTH 30,000 AVIOS WITH CAPITAL ON TAP

Get 20,000 bonus points, four airport lounge passes and your first year free with American Express Gold

The UK's biggest frequent flyer website uses cookies, which you can block via your browser settings. Continuing implies your consent to this policy. Our privacy policy is here.

Got it!