Barclay’s is sending out emails on their business Mastercards that they are being upgraded to become World Elite Mastercards. It might not be all Barclays business Mastercards, but most people are getting an email about this change on cards like American Airlines, JetBlue, Hawaiian, etc. This change is only on business cards.
With this change, you’ll get Mastercard World Elite benefits including cell phone protection and more. We detailed updated info on Mastercard World Elite benefits in this post.
As part of the change, you’ll lose some benefits as well: Extended Warranty, Mastercard VAT Reclaim Service, Purchase Assurance, and MasterAssist benefits will be removed as of September 30, 2020; however, claims can be submitted for eligible purchases made through September 30, 2020.
Your Benefits Are Changing
Congratulations! Your AAdvantage® Aviator® Business Mastercard® has been upgraded to a World Elite Business Mastercard®. Your new Mastercard® benefits will be effective October 1, 2020. You’ll continue earning miles with every purchase, and there’s no additional cost to you. The terms of your new AAdvantage® Aviator® World Elite Business Mastercard® are the same as your current card. Your Easy Savings® Program and Identity Theft benefits will be enhanced. For example, you will now have access to an online monitoring dashboard and resolution features that scour the Internet and Dark Web for compromised credentials and financial account takeover. You’ll also be receiving Cell Phone Protection, the Receipt Management Program, ShopRunner program, Mastercard Travel and Lifestyle Services, and Mastercard Business Assistant! Terms, restrictions, limitations and exclusions apply.Also effective October 1, 2020, you will receive unique discounts and offers from Intuit QuickBooks® and TurboTax®, Salesforce Essentials and Microsoft 365, which will help improve the ease of doing business for Mastercard World Elite Business cardmembers.
Your Extended Warranty, Mastercard VAT Reclaim Service, Purchase Assurance, and MasterAssist benefits will be removed as of September 30, 2020; however, claims can be submitted for eligible purchases made through September 30, 2020, in accordance with applicable terms and conditions.Your updated Guide to Benefits will be available by logging in to your account as of September 15, 2020, and it includes a full explanation of your updated coverages as well as details about specific limits, eligibility and documentation requirements.
Hat tip to reader Daniel
i just closed my AAdvantage Aviator Business Mastercard a few days ago, but still received this email notification, strange..
I’d love it if they upgraded the usability of the website. You can’t set up auto pay online, which is ridiculous. The whole site is antiquated and hard to use.
@Dan:
Odd, I’ve got both my Jetblue Business and Business AAdvantage setup on auto-pay. I did it online. Although I will admit the website is funky/wonky to use. But BofA has them beat in terms of suckiness (if you have a BofA checking account, you cannot pay your credit cards online with an external bank account any longer).–at least I’ve not found a way to do that.
For the Barclay auto pay:
Login with the Corporate account userid.
On the left-hand side is a menu pulldown. Select Payments.
On the next menu (right-hand side) select: Repeat Payments (because I have mine setup, I only have the option to Modify or Stop repeat payments)
In there, you can select the checking account and how much you want to pay (minimum, statement balance, other)
Thanks. You are right. I wasn’t on the “corporate account”, but now that I switched to that account I see I can do it. Still really clunky, but glad this can be done.
When I saw the email subject line…
“Congratulations! Your AAdvantage Aviator Business Mastercard has been upgraded!” I worried about what was being taken away or wrecked.
Exactly. I got an email from Thrifty about their Blue Chip rewards program, the subject of which was something like “We’re Enhancing your Rewards Program” but the truth was that they were ending the program altogether.
Most card these day is either Signature/World/World Elite/Infinite Banks issue them while some don’t even meet the min CL requirement. Gotta get those higher interchange fees of course… while not actually providing benefits for those elite cards.
Its also a good reminder to cancel the card before the annual fee hits…
Do they not refund after the fee has posted if you decide to cancel the card?
I am keeping the email in my inbox, flagged, for that exact reason.
Exchanging extended warranty for cell phone protection is an interesting breakeven.
I’d rather have the extended warranty and purchase assurance.
Yawn…