#496

Amex Green Corporate Card

Keep

A corporate card whose points are the same points a personal Amex earns.

Not valued

no published fee to price it against

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What it's worth to you, after the fee

Welcome: Not published — Amex advertises no joining bonus on the Green Corporate page, and the corporate book has no public offer schedule

Not valued. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes a fee — every net-value number here would be wrong by exactly the fee we can't find. Everything we can source — the earn rate, the transfer routes, the lounge doors — is above and stands on its own; this card is simply not on the board, not in the calculator, and cannot win a best-of call until American Express publishes a fee schedule we can cite.

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3 notes on the card itself: how it is issued · the network variants · why it ranks #496

American Express · Amex · entry

Amex

Why #496 The entry rung of Amex India's corporate book, and the only one of the three with no lounge benefit at all. Carried, not ranked: what makes it worth a page is that its Membership Rewards points are the SAME points a personal Amex earns, transferable to the same airline and hotel programmes — a corporate card whose rewards reach a seat is unusual in India.

Not published
Annual fee — no issuer document states one
None
Fee waiver

These are ordinary Membership Rewards points, housed at ₹0.50 on this desk, and Amex says so in the same sentence that describes them: enrolment is into "the individual Membership Rewards program", and redemption includes "Points transfer to leading airline and hotel loyalty program". One programme, one rate, no corporate-only catalogue — which is why the earn is priced straight off the count Amex posts.

Best real exit: Virgin Atlantic Flying Club at ₹0.80/pt (5:4 transfer, above house value).

The take

Most Indian corporate cards pay in a walled catalogue: points that buy a coffee machine from a procurement portal and reach no airline. This one does not. Amex enrols the Green Corporate Card into "the individual Membership Rewards program" — the same programme a personal Amex Platinum Travel or Gold Charge feeds — and lists "Points transfer to leading airline and hotel loyalty program" among the redemption options, with no enrolment fee, no points expiry and no redemption charge. At the ₹0.50 this desk houses an MR point at, one point per ₹50 on air travel, hotels, dining and office supplies is 1%, which is exactly what the personal Membership Rewards Card pays. The carve-outs are the usual corporate ones and they are honest about it: fuel earns nothing at all, and telecom, insurance, utilities and wholesale spend drop to one point per ₹100 with a hard ceiling of a thousand points a month across the whole group — which is ₹1,00,000 of qualifying spend and then silence. Against that you get up to 51 days of interest-free credit, no pre-set spending limit, ₹30,00,000 of complimentary personal accident and licensed transport cover underwritten by ICICI Lombard on return trips paid with the card, the Global Assist hotline, and @Work for the finance team. What there is not is a lounge. The Gold Corporate above it carries Priority Pass and the domestic programme; the Green carries neither, and Amex's own comparison grid says so by omission — the "Travel More Comfortably" block that both other tiers have is simply absent from this one. And the price is whatever your company negotiated: Amex publishes a fee schedule for all six of its Indian personal cards and none whatsoever for the corporate book.

Your renewal — keep, downgrade or cancel

There is no renewal arithmetic to run on this card yet — and a break-even we cannot source is not one we will print.

the whole desk — what changed, the downgrade, and what we cannot price →

Keep, downgrade or cancel

what we can and cannot price

Not valued. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes a fee — every net-value number here would be wrong by exactly the fee we can't find. A break-even is the spend at which value crosses a fee, and we are short one side of that sentence — so this desk prints no ladder, no crossing and no ₹0 standing in for either. What we can source about this card is under Sources.

The downgrade

American Express publishes no document naming a card you can step down to, so we name none — an invented product change is a phone call you would waste. That leaves keep or cancel, and we cannot price either side of it.

What has changed under this card

  • 30 Sep 2026 Amex India discontinues Reward Multiplier — the whole 5X/3X/2X ladder issuer-wide
  • 23 Sep 2026 Axis EDGE brings Accor back, drops ITC, and adds Cathay, Miles & More and Hilton a program these points reach
  • 28 Aug 2026 Amex India pauses new card applications across the entire portfolio issuer-wide

We price what is in force today — a change that has not happened yet is not in these numbers. the full archive for this card →

If you call to cancel

What the bank offers to keep you is the one fact this desk cannot compute. We are collecting those reports — dated, and only in aggregate — before publishing any: an offer one reader was made is not one you are owed. Called about this card? Tell us what they offered →

The desk publishes subscribable .ics feeds for the dates it knows — offer deadlines, devaluations, expiry audits. Your renewal date is not one of them: only your statement knows it.

What's good

  • 1 Membership Rewards point per ₹50 on air travel, hotels, dining, office supplies and general business spend
  • Points land in the individual Membership Rewards programme and transfer to airline and hotel partners — no enrolment fee, no expiry, no redemption charge
  • Up to 51 days of interest-free credit and no pre-set spending limit
  • ₹30,00,000 of complimentary personal accident and licensed transport accident cover on return trips paid with the card

Watch out

  • Amex publishes no fee for its corporate book at all — the page's own close is 'Talk to a specialist for a customised Corporate Card', so the price is a negotiation
  • Fuel earns nothing, and telecom, insurance, utilities and wholesale spend drop to one point per ₹100 with a 1,000-point monthly ceiling
  • No airport lounge benefit of any kind: Amex's own comparison grid gives the Travel More Comfortably block to the Gold and Platinum Corporate tiers and not to this one
  • Enrolment into Membership Rewards is subject to your company joining the programme — the points are not automatic
  • Amex acceptance in India is materially narrower than Visa or Mastercard, which matters more on a card meant for employee expenses than on a personal card
  • Express Cash at ATMs requires written authorisation from your company

What these points actually fly

These points feed 23 programmes that publish an award chart. Cheapest verified seat per cabin, priced in YOUR points with this card's own ratio already applied:

  1. Bengaluru → Colombo Economy 13,000 Amex Membership Rewards via Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) at 2:1 the play
  2. Chennai → Colombo Business 28,000 Amex Membership Rewards via Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) at 2:1 the play
  3. Mumbai → Delhi First 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards via Air Canada Aeroplan at 2.4:1 (through Marriott Bonvoy) the play

every corridor these points reach — 2,431 priced →

Where the miles go

9 programs · 8 live

Ratios read card points : partner miles — 2:1 means 2 points become 1 mile. Never the other way round.

Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer
2:1 1–3 days (SLA 5 working days)
The best home for Indian MR — saver business to SIN/Europe. 2 MR → 1 mile.
The British Airways Club (Avios)
2:1 1–3 days (SLA 5 working days)
Short-haul distance-band Avios; cross-program to Qatar Qsuite. 2 MR → 1 Avios.
Qatar Airways Privilege Club (Avios)
2:1 1–3 days (SLA 5 working days)
Qsuite to Doha and onward; Avios move freely across BA/Qatar. 2 MR → 1 Avios.
Cathay Asia Miles
2:1 1–3 days (SLA 5 working days)
Cathay business to Hong Kong; oneworld sweet spots. 2 MR → 1 mile.
Emirates Skywards
2:1 1–3 days (SLA 5 working days)
Emirates premium cabins ex-India; watch heavy surcharges. 2 MR → 1 mile.
Virgin Atlantic Flying Club
5:4 usually immediate (allow 48 h; up to 7 days in exceptional cases)
Sweet spots on partners (ANA, Delta) more than Virgin metal. 5 MR → 4 points since 18 Aug 2026 — the best MR airline ratio outside KrisFlyer.
Marriott Bonvoy
1:1 24–48 hours (SLA 5 working days)
The one 1:1 route; dynamic pricing means free-night awards are the play.
Hilton Honors
2:3 usually immediate (up to 7 days)
2 MR → 3 Hilton since 18 Aug 2026. Hilton points are still cheap individually, but the ratio finally does the arithmetic for you.
Etihad Guest
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Withdrawn 30 Jun 2026 as the global Amex–Etihad tie-up ended. Gone from Indian MR.
removed

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Lounge access

0 of 793 tracked doors

No lounge access. This card opens exactly 0 of 793 tracked lounge doors — board with the crowd, or find a card that doesn't →

Can you get it?

the route in — no cutoffs published

The cutoffs and the actual route in — not the "apply now" button, the door that opens.

Route Direct application
Income · salaried not published
Income · self-employed not published
Age band not published

Direct application — no invite list, no banking relationship required.

American Express publishes no income or age cutoffs for this card. Blank means blank — we don't invent numbers to fill a grid.

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What's changed for this card

8 dated changes

Full tracker →

Devaluations and buffs that touch this card directly, its issuer, or the points and programs it earns and transfers to. Every one is dated here; the tracker carries each one's before → after and the write-up.

  • 1 Oct 2026
    not yet in force Lounge moderate American Express
    Amex Platinum loses Lufthansa Lounge access with no replacement
    Complimentary access to participating Lufthansa Lounges for eligible Platinum Card Members, through 30 Sep 2026 → From 1 Oct 2026 Platinum Card Members have no access to any Lufthansa Lounge; no substitute benefit announced

    Announced in July 2026, effective 1 October: eligible Platinum Card Members lose access to every Lufthansa Lounge, and Amex has named nothing to put in its place. Access runs through 30 September, so there's a two-month window to use it. For Indian Platinum holders the Lufthansa rooms were the good half of a Frankfurt or Munich connection — Priority Pass and the Global Lounge Collection still cover the airports, but not with a Senator-grade product. It's the third clip to the same card's lounge stack in one quarter, after Mumbai's Centurion closed on 1 July and Centurion guest access halved on 8 July. Amex India's ₹66,000 metal card is being asked to justify itself on Fine Hotels + Resorts and hotel status, not on doors.

  • 1 Oct 2026
    not yet in force Lounge moderate American Express
    Amex bolts a ₹1 lakh spend gate onto Platinum Travel's domestic lounge access
  • 1 Oct 2026
    not yet in force Lounge major American Express
    Platinum Travel's domestic lounge access gets a ₹1 lakh prior-quarter spend gate
    8 complimentary domestic lounge visits a year, capped at two per quarter, with no spend condition anywhere. → Up to two complimentary domestic visits in a calendar quarter, EARNED by spending ₹1 lakh or more in eligible transactions in the preceding calendar quarter.

    Same notice, three weeks later, and it lands on the other half of what this card is for. "From October 1, 2026, complimentary domestic airport lounge access will be linked to quarterly spending on the card. To receive up to two complimentary domestic airport lounge visits in a calendar quarter, a cardmember will need to have spent INR 1 lakh or more in eligible transactions in the preceding calendar quarter." The visit COUNT does not change — two a quarter, eight a year, exactly as before. What changes is that they stop being something you hold and start being something you earn, and ₹4 lakh a year of spend is now the price of a benefit that used to come with the ₹5,000 fee. On a card sold to travellers rather than to heavy spenders, that is a real withdrawal: the ₹1.9 lakh milestone deleted in September was the rung a moderate spender actually reached, and now the lounges want ₹4 lakh a year too. CARRY THE TRANSITIONAL RUNG, because it applies to exactly one quarter and then vanishes. CardInsider's report of the same notice adds what the first report did not: "As a one-time exception, for the October–December 2026 quarter, cardholders will need to have spent ₹70,000 or more between July and September 2026 to qualify for lounge access." So the gate for the first affected quarter is ₹70,000, not ₹1 lakh — and July and August of that window are already spent by the time most readers learn this, which is what a one-time exception announced seven weeks ahead really means.

  • 30 Sept 2026
    Devaluation major American Express
    Amex India discontinues Reward Multiplier — the whole 5X/3X/2X ladder
  • 23 Sept 2026
    Partner major Axis Bank
    Axis EDGE brings Accor back, drops ITC, and adds Cathay, Miles & More and Hilton
  • 10 Sept 2026
    Devaluation major American Express
    Amex guts Platinum Travel's milestone ladder — 30,000 MR out, the Taj voucher doubled
  • 10 Sept 2026
    Devaluation major American Express
    Amex deletes the ₹1.9 lakh milestone on Platinum Travel and swaps the ₹7 lakh points for a voucher
  • 28 Aug 2026
    Devaluation major American Express
    Amex India pauses new card applications across the entire portfolio

Every American Express change we've dated → 28 events since 1993, 21 of them nerfs — worst year 2026.