American Express has announced that Beginning March 22, 2014, Platinum cardholders will no longer have complimentary access to the American Admirals Club or US Airways Club lounges.

This applies to  all American Express Platinum cards (Consumer, Business and Corporate Platinum and Centurion Cards)

Complimentary lounge access to The Delta Sky Clubs will still be offered with a Platinum card and a same-day Delta ticket as well as The Airspace Lounges and Centurion Lounges, and you will still get complimentary membership in Priority Pass Select.

Amex has been sending out targeted emails to some of it’s cardmembers, offering between $200 – $500 of statement credits for incidentals fees from either of those airlines between March 22, 2014 to December 31, 2014.

Those statement credits can be used for;

• Membership fees in the Admirals Club program and US Airways Club
• One-day passes to Admirals Club lounges and US Airways Clubs
• Other American Airlines and US Airways incidental fees like baggage fees or flight change fees – (Airline Gift cards anyone? 😉 )

This $200-$500 targeted credit is in addition to the $200 annual airline credit, which is pretty nice, being that it cancels out the annual fee of $450 for nearly two years!

Now the only card that will offer “complimentary” AA lounge access is the American Airlines Executive AAdvantage card. Though with it’s hefty $450 annual fee + not nearly anywhere as many benefits as the Amex Platinum offers, you would need a pretty good reason to get one.