{"id":9351,"date":"2024-03-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=9351"},"modified":"2024-03-11T16:57:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T22:57:40","slug":"that-whole-free-point-me-amex-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/that-whole-free-point-me-amex-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"That Whole Free Point.me AmEx Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes there&#8217;s a news story that sends travel bloggers to the word vomit factory to write pages and pages when there&#8217;s really just one thing to say, and this week&#8217;s factory tour is courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/en-us\/newsroom\/articles\/products-and-services\/american-express-membership-rewards-and-pointme-partnership.htm\" class=\"ek-link\">American Express and that they&#8217;re now offering a free, limited-partner Point.me search<\/a> for cardholders by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/amex.point.me\/\" class=\"ek-link\">amex.point.me<\/a>. And yes, I&#8217;m writing about it too so I&#8217;m no better, welcome to the word vomit factory my friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, there are a few reasons you probably shouldn&#8217;t care much about this new development, and I say this as a paid Point.me user with full access (not just a normie with specific access to Membership Rewards transfer partners):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/point.me\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Point.me<\/a> is really slow and inflexible, and the AmEx version has poor coverage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pointsyeah.com\/\" class=\"ek-link\">PointsYeah<\/a> is a free alternative that&#8217;s more flexible and much, much faster<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/seats.aero\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Seats.aero<\/a> will cache award results for quick lookup and is a great compliment to PointsYeah<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s always more to the story, so let&#8217;s visit caveat city:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>American Express&#8217;s point.me version has no coverage beyond Membership Rewards partners<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PointsYeah has better coverage than the AmEx point.me<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Point.me with a paid subscription has the best coverage, notably including Aeroplan and Southwest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neither Point.me nor PointsYeah will show you Delta 15% off award discounts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neither Point.me, Seats.aero, nor PointsYeah will show United XN expanded access and discounts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>None of the tools will show you cheaper FlyingBlue awards found by searching different partners<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PointsYeah easily lets you filter for things like maximum fuel surcharge or maximum trip duration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Award alerts in PointsYeah and Seats.aero are top notch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Award alerts in point.me are, <em>uhh<\/em>, non-existent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So yes, we have another tool to use courtesy of AmEx, but also it&#8217;s like having a Fisher Price hammer when you&#8217;re building a cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9352\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-5.png 600w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-5-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-5-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">American Express tools to help with award searches: present and future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes there&#8217;s a news story that sends travel bloggers to the word vomit factory to write pages and pages when there&#8217;s really just one thing<\/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":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miles","category-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351","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=9351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9355,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions\/9355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}