The smartest travelers use different cards for flights, lounges, and points

9 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video by Dan Novaes recommending travel credit-card strategies: he highlights two cards he uses—Amex City (lounge access on American Airlines) and Amex Platinum (points multiplier via Amex Travel). He emphasizes lounge benefits (food, drinks, Wi‑Fi, time savings) and claims that Amex Travel can yield a 10–20x points multiplier, giving examples such as 50,000 points equaling $300–$500 in some uses or up to a $5,000 first-class ticket if redeemed optimally. Ends with a call-to-action to follow for more hacks.

Questions this video answers

Amex Platinum and Amex City.

Access to any lounge on American Airlines.

10–20× multiplier on points.

He says 50,000 points could be worth as little as $300–$500, or could be used for a ~ $5,000 first-class ticket if redeemed optimally.

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The two best cards that I personally use for flights have been the Amex Platinum card and the Amex City card. So amex has a city card. It is a card that basically gets you access to any lounge on American Airlines. I happen to travel a lot on American Airlines. Every airline kind of has one of these, so you can essentially find the right one for you. But I find this card very, very valuable. If you're in the air a lot, you have lounge access, there's drinks, there's food. It's a nice place to stay, free WI fi and generally will save you a lot of time and hassle in between airports. So this is also kind of a lounge card as well. And then the Amex Platinum part. The reason that we have put this card here is that not only do you get a lot of great benefits with amex, but one of the benefits is that they have the Amex travel hub, where you can get up to a 10-20x multiplier on the points, meaning that the value that you get for any point, you know, it could be 50,000 points, could equal as little as 300 to $500 for you, but it could also equal a $5,000 ticket in first class if you use it correctly through the airlines. If you want to get more of this, follow us and get all of our hacks for free.