Category: Air Travel
Posted by Nathan Hurst (The Detroit News) on Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:16 AMAMEX wants your business ... bad
And the credit card issuer is offering a ton of Delta SkyMiles to get it.
American Express is now giving away hundreds of thousands of frequent flier miles to customers who use their Delta SkyMiles-branded credit cards at thousands of shops in the Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul and Memphis areas.
Those cities are all former Northwest Airlines hubs, and AMEX is vying hard to switch all of the former WorldPerks Visa cardholders who used US Bank to switch to American Express.
The new promotion, running through Nov. 23, enters customers into a contest to win 100,000 miles for paying for transactions with their AMEX card at any of a few thousand participating merchants in each of the three cities. Detroiters can find a list of local ones here.
There'll be one winner each week.
And for an idea of where you could go with all those miles, check here.
