2025 Amex Membership Rewards Devaluation

[Luciana Lanza]

I’m going mad! Can someone please help? I have a individual business platinum charge card and I’ve read on this thread that we are immune from the changes because we have the ascent points in a business card. I checked on Amex and that was confirmed. However, I tried to confirm with Amex by calling. They have insisted there will be a devaluation. Can someone please clarify?? Thank you

 

[Haplo]

I’m going mad! Can someone please help? I have a individual business platinum charge card and I’ve read on this thread that we are immune from the changes because we have the ascent points in a business card. I checked on Amex and that was confirmed. However, I tried to confirm with Amex by calling. They have insisted there will be a devaluation. Can someone please clarify?? Thank you

It depends which program are your points pooling into. Ascent, gateway and ascent plus are the affected program. Platinum personal goes into ascent plus.

 

[andye]

I’m going mad! Can someone please help? I have a individual business platinum charge card and I’ve read on this thread that we are immune from the changes because we have the ascent points in a business card. I checked on Amex and that was confirmed. However, I tried to confirm with Amex by calling. They have insisted there will be a devaluation. Can someone please clarify?? Thank you

May not be a great help in clarifying, but I think the difference is the initial info said Business Ascent is not affected. I seem to remember that upthread that most Platinum Business still earns into Ascent rather than Business Ascent. Not 100% sure who gets Business Ascent but may be corporate cards

 

[JohnnyA]

I can’t say with 100% confidence but since both my personal and business platinum cards have the same transfer partners, this tells me they are both ascent plus which will be affected. The corporate cards I see have far fewer transfer partners hence the different programs.

 

[Luciana Lanza]

It depends which program are your points pooling into. Ascent, gateway and ascent plus are the affected program. Platinum personal goes into ascent plus.

May not be a great help in clarifying, but I think the difference is the initial info said Business Ascent is not affected. I seem to remember that upthread that most Platinum Business still earns into Ascent rather than Business Ascent. Not 100% sure who gets Business Ascent but may be corporate cards

The card seems to earn ascent premier points just to add to the confusion.....I was so hoping I wouldn't be affected but .....

This is what the website says on the matter......** Airline redemption rate changes are not applicable for Card Members enrolled in the following Membership Rewards Tiers: Business Ascent, Corporate Choices, Corporate Membership Rewards, Spirit and Corporate Spirit