One of the benefits they advertise is that you can use airport lounges, but what they dont tell you is that most airport lounges have a pretty low cap for people who use their credit card to enter airport lounges. So you can literally look into the lounge and see most seats empty but the receptionist will tell you that "the lounge is too full, the cap for people that use this entry method was reached". Aside from this they rip everyone off. Do not use it for traveling. If you go to any small business that you like and pay with amex you are in fact punishing them, because amex charges them huge fees. Aside from that, they will do stuff like block your card randomly for no good reason at the most inconvenient times, like when you are in some restaurant in a foreign country. They don't even block earlier before using it and then warn you that you can't use it - no, they block it right when you are attempting to use it, to maximize inconvenience. Amex is utter trash and they rip off everybody.
