 Hello everyone, this is Ahmeddan of Ahmeddan.com. If this is your first time here on this channel I do non-affiliated reviews of great cars and other products, and I have lots of travel videos and today I'll talk about American Express discontinuing its Priority Pass restaurant benefits. For those who are not familiar with the Priority Pass program, so this is a program which keeps you airport lounge access and you can purchase Priority Pass membership by going to Priority Pass website directly or you can have the Priority Pass membership plus free lounge access via different credit cards. So American Express high-end credit cards offer Priority Pass membership and free lounge access. For example, American Express Platinum card which has $700 annual fee, American Express airplane plus platinum card which has $500 annual fee and there are some other American Express cards and starting August 1st, American Express will discontinue offering restaurant benefits at various airports via its Priority Pass membership. However, you'll still be able to access a lounge via Priority Pass but it's just the restaurant benefits that are being discontinued. Now we haven't heard from other credit cars which are offering Priority Pass membership that they will be discontinuing restaurant benefits. So this is my understanding at this point that if you have a Priority Pass free lounge access through other credit cards, you will still be able to access restaurants at different airports. There is no word on that other credit cards are being are discontinuing Priority Pass restaurant benefits. American Express credit cards are in general they're good to get points. However, American Express is notoriously cheap providing benefits. For example, if you want concierge service for an American Express credit card then you have to pay $699 which is the American Express Platinum credit card but there are many Canadian credit cards which you can have concierge service just paying $120 annual fee. Another example is that if you'd like full travel insurance benefits for example trip cancellation or trip interruption plus other travel insurances then you can get that from other credit cards just paying $120 annually but if you want the same full travel benefits from American Express cards the least annual fee credit card which provides this insurance is the American Express airplane plus platinum credit card which has $499 annual fee but the many Canadian credit cards starting at $120 will give you the same benefits. So let's say you want full insurance coverage and you want Priority Pass annual fee plus free lounge passes then if you're looking at any non-American credit cards then you can have these benefits paying from $120 to $150. For example, AMO, AirMiles, World Elite MasterCard, the annual fee is only $120 but you get the free lounge access and free Priority Pass membership and then you get full insurance coverage. Another credit card you can take a look at is the Escocia Passport Visa Infinite credit card which has $139 annual fee and this card gives you full insurance coverage, trip cancellation, trip interruption and plus much more and you get six lounge passes plus the Priority Pass free membership. So the free membership and the free lounge access they're two separate entity what it means that let's say if a credit card is giving you a free annual membership that doesn't mean that you can enter the lounge for free. It's just you're having the annual membership and each time you want to enter a lounge you would have to pay an interest fee which is usually about it could be $28 to $30 but if a credit card is giving you Priority Pass free membership plus free lounge accesses which can be for some cards let's say four lounge passes or some cards can be six like Escocia Passport Infinite then you don't have to pay to enter lounges let's say for four times or six times until you finish your free passes and then once you finish them then you can still access the lounges by paying each time at the entrance. So American Express Credit cards some of them had unlimited lounge accesses and some of them had fixed lounge accesses but with the Priority Pass lounge accesses they would they were offering or they still offer restaurants at some airports because you know some airports the Priority Pass may not have any lounges or some of them they have lounges but you know it might be too crowded so they had a deal with they have a deal with the restaurants where you can enter the restaurant and you can eat for which you'll get free crates up to it would be about $28 to $30 and then that entrance or each time you eat this still would be considered one lounge access so let's say if you have a credit card a Escocia Passport Visa Infinite that gives you free six free lounge passes then you can actually eat six times at airport restaurants instead of going to lounges which are in partner with the Priority Pass program and you can still eat six times and until or up to $38 I'm sorry $28 to $30 you'll not be able to you don't have to pay anything because that amount will be provided by Priority Pass so this is the benefits which American Express carding now so if you have American Express credit cards that offer lounge accesses then you'll still be able to use lounges but you'll not be able to use restaurants starting August 1st but as I mentioned that some other credit cards non-American Express credit cards they haven't mentioned anything so at this point it looks like you know they're still offering these benefits so for a lot of people this is going to be a good reason to cut American Express or cancel American Express credit cards because as I mentioned that you know American Express credit cards they are good for point rewers but they're not good for benefits so they don't give lots of benefits which you can easily get from other non-American Express credit cards just paying very little but to get let's say full travel coverages the least American Express NOV credit card would be the American Express airplane plus platinum card $499 NOV and even paying $499 you'll just get the full travel coverage insurance coverage but you're not going to get any concierge services so if you want a concierge service from an American Express credit card plus full travel insurance benefits then you're going to have to pay $699 which is like $700 and that's the American Express Platinum credit card this is the time you can look at other credit cards for example their BMO world elite air miles card or BMO world elite rewards cards which offer full travel insurance benefits plus four and two lounge passes plus the free membership and then there's the escotia passport visa infinite credit card which has annual priority pass annual membership and six lounge accesses and then there are many other credit cards which offer free lounge passes and lounge accesses and then they cover full travel insurance benefits so if you're interested about other Canadian credit cards and you wanna you know you want to get rid of your American Express credit card just check my travel check my credit card videos on this channel and all my videos are non-affiliated that means what it means that I do not take money or from any credit card companies and I do not provide affiliated links because most of the sites are videos you're watching online actually they're working for the credit card companies and they're just you know working as a credit card company sells people to sell you credit cards so to make some money off you but if you're looking for someone or some channel or website that is not affiliated then you have got amitdon.com and my youtube channel and I would say probably 99% of the other websites or videos you're looking at they're all affiliated so you're not gonna get honest or an unbased opinion for them forget about subscribing this channel forget about liking this video thank you for watching and I'll see you shortly