As part of the Marriott/SPG acquisition Chase & American Express made a number of changes to their credit card line ups. Despite adding a Marriott Premier Plus personal card, it looked like the Business card was largely staying the same. It looks like that won’t be the case for long with a document showing details of a Premier Plus Business card that looks like will start from August 26th, 2018 onwards (and presumably existing Premier cardholders will be converted?). The new card will earn at the following rates:
- Six Marriott rewards points per dollar spent at participating hotels
- Four Marriott rewards points per dollar spent on the following categories: restaurants, gas stations, shipping, internet, cable and phone services
- Two points per dollar spent on all other purchases
It isn’t clear what other benefits the card will come with. The full program agreement can be found here. There is also some confusion in the comments as Chase is supposed to lose the ability to issue business cards as part of the Marriott/SPG acquisition. There are two things that could be at play here:
- This won’t be issued as a new card and will only be offered as an upgrade
- Chase will continue to be able to issue a business cards until the programs formally merge (as American Express seems to be able to do with the mass market consumer cards).
Readers will also wonder if this new card is subjected to the Chase 5/24 rule or not (as currently the Marriott business card isn’t). This is impossible to know at this stage.
Any DP’s on the new premier plus business not subject to 5/24?
I received a mail today saying that my Marriott Business will be converted to Premier Plus Business, beginning August 26.
The second card statement for my Marriott Premier Business applied for in June (approval delayed for verification) is clearly marked Premier “Plus” Business now, so the upgrade is automatic.
Can someone refresh my memory – tomorrow is the 2 year anniversary of application approval for one of my cards – when it drops off (I’m assuming I need to wait a month for it to fully drop), I’ll be 4/24. However, since the Marriott Biz isn’t bound by 5/24 rules and won’t increase my 5/24 count, I can get that card NOW and still be 4/24 in a month or so…? Not sure if I’m going to go this route – just trying to make sure I still remember 5/24 nuances.
Your assessment appears to be correct.
I know it’s hard to say, but at this point how likely is it that Chase will offer the 100,000 point business bonus again before this change?
No idea
Chase still issues the 75K first year fee waived business card – from the personal 75K offer sent out in April and expired in May, one can go to the biz card version which is still active.
If we are getting leaks for cards in late August, leaks on the new/updated Ritz card should be any day now, right? 😀
Points earning on the Ritz card will be updated to match the SPG Luxury card in August. No details on other aspects yet.
The Ritz card agreement has also been updated. The earning structure will match the SPG Luxury Card effective August 26, 1984.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/29863656-post1855.html
Do you have a link to the earnings structure from these Orwellian times?
The Ritz card agreement has also been updated.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/29863656-post1855.html
“as Chase is supposed to lose the ability to issue business cards as part of the Marriott/SPG acquisition”…I’ve always thought this was misinterpreted on the web. I read the same documents everyone else did but I didn’t make the same assumptions. It sounded to me like the document was focused on new products and just didn’t say much about the old ones.
Not sure I understand what your saying. The documents clearly stated they wouldn’t be able to issue new cards, they can continue to service existing cardholders though.
My annual fee for the Chase Marriott Biz comes up on August 1. Hopefully the annual fee becomes $95 like all the other versions. Also, hopefully the annual anniversary night also goes up to properties costing up to 35k like the other versions.
I suspect this is what we will see, but will hit up some Chase contacts to confirm.
My anniversary date on the business premier was June, so I got the 25k night before they bumped it to 35k. Has anyone had luck getting a bump?
MRCC SBO Premier VISA 1 Free Night up to 25,000 Points
I haven’t seen anybody try, worth a call IMO.
Secure message dude says no because the card product was not yet “premier plus” at anniversary. I followed up asking about it since Marriott increased price of many hotels before you can be expected to use the night.