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Amex Cardholders: Get National Car Rental Emerald Club Executive Status Expired

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National Car Rental has for American Express Cardholders: Emerald Club Executive Status valid for New Members for Free when you Enroll in National's Emerald Club Between 9/16/18 – 1/31/19. Thanks ManiM1366

Note, after enrolling, pay for your first rental with any American Express Card and earn six Emerald Club Credits toward a future rental day. Rental day offer is valid at participating worldwide locations. Terms and conditions apply, refer to the promotion page for complete details.

Executive status means access to the following benefits:
  • Reserve a mid-size to get access to the Emerald Aisle.
  • Guaranteed upgrades: reserve and pay for a mid-size, and drive away in a vehicle in a higher class
  • Faster rentals by bypassing the counter.
  • Choose your own car. Don't waste time looking for your assigned car.
  • Faster returns with Drop & Go. With e-receipts, there is no need to wait for an agent to give you a receipt.
  • No second-driver fees
  • Reward choices. Select from Free Rental Days, frequent-flyer miles or hotel rewards.
  • Special offers. Receive members-only discounts and offers through our periodic emails

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  • To maintain Executive status, member must meet the standard qualifications of 12–24 rentals or 40–84 rental days during the full calendar year 2019.
  • Refer to the forum thread for additional details and discussion.

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National and amex are offering free executive membership to new user only. More details below. Executive membership with National is one of the best in the industry! Nowhere did it ask for an amex membership while signing up though, I guess it might be open to all (YMMV)

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/fr...w-members/

https://legacy.nationalcar.com/en...ecEMC.html

Eligibility:
1) National car rental is offering free executive status until 2/28/20 for American Express cardholders that aren't currently National members.
2) After completing your first rental using any American Express card you will also earn six Emerald Club credits towards a future rental day (this is enough for a free rental day)

The Fine Print
Offer valid for new members only enrolled via this promotion between 9/16/18-1/31/19. Get six Emerald Club Credits you can use toward a future rental day after you enroll in the Emerald Club at nationalcar.com/axec between 9/16/18-1/31/19, rent one time from National and pay with any American Express Card.
Offer is subject to and requires enrollment in the Emerald Club program. Rules and Conditions and Master Rental Agreement found at www.emeraldclub.com. Rental day offer is valid at participating National Car Rental locations in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Latin America, Caribbean, and in Europe, for National Car Rental brand reservations serviced by Enterprise.
The six Emerald Club Credits you can use for a rental day are applicable toward the base rate but do not include taxes, government charges, surcharges, concession recoupment fees, fuel and other optional items, which are the responsibility of the renter.
Emerald Club points will be credited 24-72 hours after a paid rental. For Executive members, the rental can be used for up to a full-size car.
The rental day expires 12/31 of the calendar year following the year in which the credits were earned.
Executive status is valid through 2/28/20
. To maintain Executive status, member must meet the standard qualifications of 12–24 rentals or 40–84 rental days during the full calendar year 2019.
This offer is made exclusively to and is only valid for American Express Card Members.
Fulfillment of the offer is the sole responsibility of the participating American Express merchant.
Please note that National does not accept Prepaid Cards for charges authorized in advance, although Prepaid Cards may be used to settle the final bill.
Check to make sure Prepaid Cards are accepted before attempting to use your Prepaid Card to take advantage of offers for this merchant.
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Just FYI, if you have a corporate discount, this replaces that contract ID. When attempting to make a reservation, I clicked on remove the AMEX contract ID and it reverted back to my corp ID which has a much lower rate.
get a Free rental day = 6 credits

you normally earn
1 credit for a rental 7days or less
earn 2 credits 11days or less
earn 3 credits at 12+
As an individual on vacation? Not really. The value comes as a frequent business traveler where your company has a contract for deep discount rates at National and then you benefit from their ease of renting. Other car companies are streamlining their processes as well now, but when we were renting National (stopped 3 years ago bc corporate got cheap) they had by far the fastest access to cars, the best customer service, and the nicest "midsize" cars of any mainstream carrier.

They don't do walk arounds like Enterprise, or ask for a gas receipt for short rentals like Budget, and the one time I dinged up a car they said "eh, don't worry about it, we'll fix it up" and that was it.

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Hayom
09-19-2018 at 08:59 PM.
09-19-2018 at 08:59 PM.
After enrolling, pay for your first rental with any American Express® Card and earn six Emerald Club Credits toward a future rental day.

That's where you need the Amex card.
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rkibbe
09-19-2018 at 09:16 PM.
09-19-2018 at 09:16 PM.
I was already a National Member and it worked anyway despite the rules saying it would not. Decent deal and free, what's not to like
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black06c230
09-19-2018 at 10:28 PM.
09-19-2018 at 10:28 PM.
Current user and notified few days ago of the upgrade. So not limited to new users.
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DanZero
09-20-2018 at 12:20 AM.
09-20-2018 at 12:20 AM.
Seems upgrade worked for me as well (hard to tell because I may have had it already) I simply clicked through the sign in portion after the offer page on the site and it granted the update and confirmed via email.
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supermanlives
09-20-2018 at 12:50 AM.
09-20-2018 at 12:50 AM.
Existing emerald club member and clicked through. Now a ec executive. Thx.
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VioletFeather292
09-20-2018 at 01:15 AM.
09-20-2018 at 01:15 AM.
How long does your status last after enrolling? I don't rent cars very often
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ObviousDeals
09-20-2018 at 01:20 AM.
09-20-2018 at 01:20 AM.
What is the value of 6 Emerald club credits ?
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atyahoodotcom
09-20-2018 at 01:21 AM.
09-20-2018 at 01:21 AM.
Worked for me despite having a Visa associated with my account. Added Amex card afterwards, just in case.
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lafskso4
09-20-2018 at 01:57 AM.
09-20-2018 at 01:57 AM.
We only rent a few times a yr., hence will revert back to base status at end of 2019😩
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importunerdj
09-20-2018 at 02:08 AM.
09-20-2018 at 02:08 AM.
What is this crap? What's the point of having platinum. I don't think I'm going to renew my card this year
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GusO3076
09-20-2018 at 02:11 AM.
09-20-2018 at 02:11 AM.
Like someone already asked, what's the advantage of 6 Emerald club credits?
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Patrick20
09-20-2018 at 02:43 AM.
09-20-2018 at 02:43 AM.
get a Free rental day = 6 credits

you normally earn
1 credit for a rental 7days or less
earn 2 credits 11days or less
earn 3 credits at 12+
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Last edited by Patrick20 September 20, 2018 at 02:45 AM.
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