Potential Amex Gold Card Fee Increase, Hilton's Cool New Partner, Aer Lingus Adds New US Route & New Virgin Red Credit Card

May 25, 2024
Mark Ostermann

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May 25, 2024
Mark Ostermann

Travel on Point(s) is an independent, advertising-supported website. This site is part of an affiliate sales network and receives compensation for sending traffic to partner sites like Cardratings.com. This compensation does not impact how or where products appear on this site. Travel on Point(s) has not reviewed all available credit card offers on this site. Reviews, analyses & recommendations are the author’s alone and have not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by any partner entities.

ToP Roundup

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HAVE YOU HEARD AER LINGUS IS STARTING DUBLIN TO LAS VEGAS? – Travel Update

This is great news for West Coast people, or for Europeans trying to get to Vegas.

Amex Gold Card Annual Fee Going Up to $325? – Danny the Deal Guru

We don't cover rumors at ToP, but this one has an Amex landing page with the price on it. That doesn't mean it is 100% sure, since it hasn't been announced yet, but it is at least being considered by American Express. Throw in the fact that they said they were going to raise fees in their recent quarterly call, plus the recent increase on the Amex Business Gold, and this change seems to be pretty likely. We'll let you know for sure if / when it goes live.

Virgin Red Announces New Multi-Year Partnership with Synchrony and Mastercard to Launch U.S. Credit Card Program – Synchrony

Interesting to see this and them not going with Bank of America, who issued the Virgin Atlantic cards for US residents for years. I am not very hopeful it is going to be compelling coming from Synchrony.