{"id":3544,"date":"2022-01-10T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:00:50","slug":"american-expresss-co-brand-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/american-expresss-co-brand-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"American Express\u2019s Co-Brand Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because American Express is still on its New Year\u2019s bender, it\u2019s given us a couple of tidbits related to the <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/wednesday-triple-3\/\">crazy offer for up to 1.9 million Membership Rewards points<\/a> that surfaced in fall 2021 for Business Platinum cards. (Refresher: $4,000 spend on an employee card gives 20,000 bonus points, and you can have up to 99 employee cards per Business Platinum card):<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> According to multiple AmEx call center representatives, the offer on Business Platinum cards is scheduled to be available through late April. Of course that could change at any time so don\u2019t treat it that as your reason to procrastinate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> An anonymous friend let me know that there\u2019s a similarly structured offer on his Delta Gold Business card offer for 5,000 SkyMiles for $1,000 in spend, per employee card. Chris let me know that an identical offer was present on his Delta Reserve Business card too, effectively making both of these deals 6x SkyMiles up to $99,000 in spend.<\/p>\n<p>As we learned in the <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/31\/2021-travel-hacking-as-told-by-gifs\/\">2021 recap<\/a>, this offer doesn\u2019t show up online and you have to call and ask about it to enroll, because reasons. So, if you have Delta business cards or any other American Express business cards, when you\u2019ve got a moment give the number on the back of your card a call and say \u201cAre there any offers for adding employees to this card?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still not sure who\u2019s actually running the show over at AmEx, but wow guys, keep it coming.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3545\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/amexchicken-1024x576.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/amexchicken-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/amexchicken-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/amexchicken-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/amexchicken-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/amexchicken.jpeg 1600w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>American Express\u2019s CEO <s>barking<\/s> clucking out orders for new card member promotions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because American Express is still on its New Year\u2019s bender, it\u2019s given us a couple of tidbits related to the crazy offer for up to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-points","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7123,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions\/7123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}