Amex to BA new ratio effective 10/1/15 250:200 (Worse than current)

[tzifanya54]

Seems you are correct

Let's hope they go back to the old schedule at least one last time. I knew I should've done more last time.

[mgarfin]

I have recently seen big changes on amex side.

They wouldn't go for a 0% processing fee for Costco.
There impending huge changes to there processing fees for merchants, eliminating the esa and one point program to opt blue.
The current miles deval

Maybe someone wants to make more money?

[ilherman]

Maybe this happened to make up for the heavy losses from the Amex MR targeted promo...

[clear thinker]

I have recently seen big changes on amex side.

They wouldn't go for a 0% processing fee for Costco.
There impending huge changes to there processing fees for merchants, eliminating the esa and one point program to opt blue.
The current miles deval

Maybe someone wants to make more money?

Someone told me on a local (car) rental company that he pushes his renters not to give him Amex because he claims that lately Amex became a PITA.

[@Yehuda]

When these things happen is it an AMEX devaluation or BA devaluation? Meaning who initiates these things?

The bloggers are hypothesizing that Chase initiated it - they recently announced the extended relationship with and could have required BA to lower their value with Amex.

Your right, now that I think about it, it wasn't an aa devaluation, rather the market value went down due to all the account closures...

AA lost value not because of shut downs but because the market was flooded. When everyone is trying to sell something that everyone else has, the value of that item goes down.

[clear thinker]

AA lost value not because of shut downs but because the market was flooded. When everyone is trying to sell something that everyone else has, the value of that item goes down.

Just like Amex.
Hence:

Maybe this happened to make up for the heavy losses from the Amex MR targeted promo...

[tzifanya54]

AA lost value not because of shut downs but because the market was flooded. When everyone is trying to sell something that everyone else has, the value of that item goes down.

Partially perhaps, but deffinetly in a large part due to to the difficulty in redeeming to other names, and the shut downs. Hence the lower value a full year latter, and the difficulty in finding buyers.

[LoLo]

I have recently seen big changes on amex side.

They wouldn't go for a 0% processing fee for Costco.
There impending huge changes to there processing fees for merchants, eliminating the esa and one point program to opt blue.
The current miles deval

Maybe someone wants to make more money?

But they did add $100 annual travel credit, and no foreign transaction fees on PRG.

[Yaalili]

Multiple blogs on BA are posting that Amex 250:250 is back, at least for now. Didn't have chance to check.