Two weeks ago I contacted Amex with the intention of cancelling my Platinum credit card, and more so with the intention of using this 'threat' of cancellation as a means of having the $395 annual fee waived and/or reduced. Even though I spend over $50K per annum they would not even consider waiving/reducing the fee, and was told this is the same situation with the Platinum charge card. The only thing they did do was offer me 2x$100 Harvey Norman vouchers, which I accepted as I need to buy some electrical goods anyway, so in essence this reduced the card to $195 and I still get the free flight. So the $30K spend would work having the fee waived, however, if anyone has been successful I would be very interested for next year.