Is Amex Platinum worth the annual fee?

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Each person can have up to four AMEX-issued credit cards as a primary cardholder (this includes regular personal cards, business cards, David Jones cards and Westpac cards), and an unlimited number of charge cards and supplementary cards, subject to meeting AMEX’s usual credit assessment requirements etc. The limit was two cards a while back but it changed last year I believe.

I tend to agree. If you wouldn't normally pay for the benefits then they aren't going to be much value. Particularly if you already have airline status or fly business class and wouldn't use priority pass. The biggest benefit for me personally is a hotel programme which gives you lounge access and/or breakfast. Accor is great unless you are like me and you travel mostly to the USA where they don't have any Accor hotels😥

Last year i was charged $5000 as an annual fee.

You are spot on, there is now a smaller gap between both cards and the Centurion apart from being made from titanium really is losing appeal. The benefits need to increase, id like to see more free nights or at least 1 comp upgrade on an airline per year.

Amex has discontinued its tie with Chartered Accountant and CPA. Don't know the others.

It still offers $250 annual fee discount for the existing card holders.

That's very unfortunate. I just checked and I can confirm that it's still available to my association for $1200.

I actually find Priority Pass quite useful even though I often have access to airline lounges too - having Priority Pass (whether through AMEX or a standalone membership) gives you a better choice of lounges at the airport, so if the regular airline lounge is busy, noisy or simply not too great, you have better alternatives. It also opens the door to some arrivals lounges, such as at London Heathrow, which even some premium airline passengers don't get access to - you can fly Singapore Airlines Suites Class into London and get no arrivals lounge from your ticket, but if you have a Priority Pass card, boom, you're into an arrivals lounge to revive after your flight. In Australia it's also useful for the pre-flight dining benefits at a range of airports, and can come in handy if you have to fly with a different airline that day than you otherwise would (particularly regional airlines from Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide where PP members can access the Rex Lounges, while status wouldn't get you much unless you were flying QantasLink or VARA). Everybody's travel is different, of course, but I used to think the same thing - "I already have lounge access so I don't need this" - but now, with the PP card coming in handy so many times, I think it's definitely a handy thing for even business class flyers to have.

Not sure where this info comes from - it's still available on the CPA Australia website as a benefit & the link takes you to an CPA branded Amex page to apply....$1,200 annual fee after the $250 discount.

I believe it was the agreement with Engineers Australia that ended, not CPA etc. Correct though that from November 1, the annual fee for all these existing ‘affinity’ cards will rise from $950 to $1200 when next-billed (while at the same time, the public card increases from $1200 to $1450 for existing customers).

Is there an Amex yearly fee for the Reserve card as well as the Platinum charge card?

No - the literature that comes with the card explains that the Reserve annual fee is perpetually waived as long as the primary cardholder continues to hold a Platinum Charge or Centurion card. If the Plat Charge or Centurion card is ever cancelled, a $395 annual fee will be charged on the Reserve at its next anniversary, although with the card having its own $400/year Travel Credit, it's one of those things that would still pay for itself: but much better being a 'free' add-on, of course!