So the american express wish list now guys, i will say first and foremost, this video and how well it does, can really depend on how good we do together. What i'm saying about this is you never know if we share this video, like the video comment thumbs up and also give our opinions down below on this video? This could actually get in front of some people who can actually make a change with this stuff. So i truly encourage you all to not just share comments on your opinions. Respectfully comment: your own opinions, the more traction this video gets.

It could possibly get into the right hands and actually make some changes that we really really want to see for this card. I also want to make it clear that this travel charge card credit card to me. Still, though these are some imperfections are still. This card is still the best travel card right now for me and how i travel in 2022.

So without further ado, let's get into this video, i'm gon na give you five things that i think should be changed on this car to make it better for almost everybody and then i'm gon na give you a bonus one as well. Let's get right into the video, so the first thing - and this has been a thing for a very long time - it is flexibility and when we say flexibility we mean flexibility on the credits, the 200 airline credit. We will love some type of flexibility when it comes to being able to use it for flight purchases, seat upgrades or whatever else we really want to use it, for it shouldn't really be for certain things to compare it against the chase. Sapphire credits, they let you for example, the 300 annual travel credit use it for a wide range of things when it comes to american expression, their credits, whether it's the uber credit, where you lose it.

If you don't use it that month, it doesn't roll over or the airline credits or the saks of avenue credits or the travel credit. If you it's a lot of restrictions, we're really on a rope, a really really tight rope on what we can and cannot do. If this car was a lo was a lot more, not a little bit a lot more flexible with how we can use our credits, it would be awesome even if it was like okay, we're not going to change the airline credit on which you can use it. For but for the uber credit, the saks of avenue credit, if you don't use it one month, it just rolls over to the next month, and it just adds on that - just makes it so much better or if somebody wanted to just spend 200 one time for The uber credit that one month let them do that or they want to wait until december and use a hundred dollars at saks fifth avenue.

Let them do that. I think that would be a great benefit to this card. It would take that bad stain away. A lot of people say american express, is very strict.

Now they can be again they're still a very great company, but they are strict as well when it comes to what we can and cannot do. Number two is a personal favorite of mine. I value status. American express does a phenomenal job, giving you status for hilton, marriott and without even realistically having anything to do with it.

They give you a status to caesars windham and that in turn, gives your status to a lot of casinos and hotels and even gives me a free trip to atlantis every year, which i just did again for 2022. So make sure you watch this video for that. But back to the focus of this video, the wish list status, airline status would be amazing, now, obviously, american express and delta. They just signed another contract.

I think in 2019, right before everything started happening for another 10 or 11 years of a contract where american express is going to be delta's person, delta's delta's credit card company. All right, i would love to see at least delta silver status. Now i know delta silver status is the lower status for flying with delta, but i will tell you right now: i have delta silver status right now and i get around a lot and the benefits are impeccable now i know, obviously at that point the annual fee Would have to change and obviously be more expensive, but in my opinion, giving me just delta silver status or gold status, for whatever the cost is, would be worth it just on delta silver status. I get upgrades to either comfort plus or first class out of the last 15 flights.

I've taken i'd say maybe once or twice that i'm not making on an upgrade list because of non-rebs, which are people who obviously work for the company or work for other airlines or because of people who are diamond medallions or delta 360s. Or something like that. And they kind of kick you off of the upgrade list, but i'm telling you having silver status is amazing. You get access to sky priority lines in certain airports.

Amazing. I would love for american express to be the first normal charge card credit card to offer an airline status. That would be a huge jump in the right direction. The next thing i would like to see is more points per dollar on non-travel purchases.

This card is great to use for travel, but if using it for anything else, besides the accelerated categories for 5x on you know, travel book through amex travel or the airlines, or through fine hotels and resorts or amex travel dot. Com, you're really not going to get the best bang for your buck. That's why i have cards like the american express green card which, if i'm booking things through like booking.com or priceline, so it may not be exactly through americanexpresstravel.com, but at least i'm going to get three membership reward points per dollar or i'll even go out of the Amex ecosystem to go to another ecosystem because they're, giving you better points per dollar on everyday purchases, i'm looking for is just at least 2x on all other purchases. I think that's very fair to do.

I know i can't give you everything. This is really a travel dominant card kind of transitioning into a lifestyle as well, but it's really more travel dominance. I know they can't give you 5x on everyday purchases. I'm not asking for that.

That's that's crazy, but i am asking for at least just 2x per dollar on all the purchases to make people want to use this card if they need to and not cringe, because they are only going to get 1x membership reward points on any other purchase. I would also say if they could please remove the equinox equinox. However, you pronounce it the boozy gym credit. I know it is hefty, it's 300 credit and if you really use equinox, you can really benefit from the credit.

Here's the issue - i don't know the percentage, but i say maybe 70 or maybe even higher again, i'm just throwing out out there. Don't people in the us do not live near that gym, and i know they have the virtual thing online, where you can sign up for some classes and things of that nature. It still doesn't equal out to the monthly credit. Again, it's very strict.

So it's not 300 all at once. It's 300 divided into monthly increments. So again that goes back to the first point of being more flexible, but on top of that you're giving us a membership to a gym that a lot of us don't use. So there's two things we could do.

We could either eliminate that 300 equinox credit indefinitely and give us something else of 300 value, or let us pick our own gym memberships for 300 divide that into a monthly increment, to get a specific amount of money and use it for our own gyms. I live nowhere near an equinox gym and a lot of people do not. I think this was a bad move. Uh honestly, in my opinion, especially for someone like me, i just don't live near one.

So, even if i wanted to try it out, i have no way to give it a shot. I'm not driving two hours to go to the gym just out of out of place for me so yeah. That is the number thing just either eliminated indefinitely, or let us pick and choose gyms and again they have to be coded as a gym to actually qualify to give us that credit, because i know this, you know it's going into that lifestyle transition. So, if you're going to continue to keep this credit, be more flexible with that la fitness planet, fitness, you got giant fitness, you got lifetime fitness, which is probably one of my favorite ones.

Let us have that flexibility as well number. Five, i would say, would be a better redemption rate when you're booking through amextravel.com, with the chase sapphire reserve card. You get 1.5 x when you're redeeming on the chase portal, so, for example, with american express it's gon na, be one per one per one. So one dollar, for one point, so let's say a flight - is three hundred dollars: you're going to spend 30 000 amx membership reward points with this being the top tier travel card for your you know.

Obviously, the centaurian is the better one, but this is your top card for everyday people such as myself, give us a better redemption rate when we're redeeming our amx points through the portal. One expert dollar is pretty standard. If you want to be premium, want to kind of stay in that competition, like with chase 1.5, will solve a lot of problems now. Number six is a bonus now.

I know this is probably unlikely because one delta and amx have a really really really great relationship and they just signed another extension to be together for another 10 or 11 years. We all know you get access to the delta sky club lounges when flying on delta. It would be very nice if you can get a day membership or something like that again when it comes to if you're flying on united or if you're flying on america, airlines or something like that. Just to give people a well-rounded type of travel card where they don't have to have the american express platinum card at seven hundred dollars at least seven hundred dollars, not including authorized user fees or anything like that and then having to pay for an american airlines.

Credit card because they want a you, know, admiral's membership, or they want to get into the united lounges, where they want to get into this lounge that lounge giving us some type of access. Obviously, this is one that's probably way out of way out of the line. Probably not going to happen, but i figured number six would be a good bonus. Give us some kind of way to get into these other lounges when we're flying on other airlines too, so guys.

This is my wish list from american express. I know everyone out here watching this video has a specific wish list on things they like. You may have not liked what i've said you may have liked some things, not others or you may have liked everything. This is the time to again share your feedback down below make sure you share this video thumbs up this video and write respective feedback down below, and maybe this could get into the right face the right desk, the right at anything.

So we can actually see some of these improvements happen, because at the end of the day they want to be the best travel card out there. I truly believe that um i can tell they want to, and i think, there's just some tweaks that they got to do so guys. What's your wishlist, give me your five things down below. What do you like to see from american express hope you guys enjoyed the video, be safe and i'll talk to you soon? You.