HUGE Updates to Chase IHG Credit Cards: Better or Worse?

IHG just did a major refresh of their cards and there's some interesting decisions. This ranges from elite status drops to new credits and vouchers to annual fee increases. For this video, we're going to focus on the non-leacy personal cards. If you are a business traveler, then there are a lot of metading changes, but a bit of a rabbit

hole. Think of this as a first impressions and I'll deep dive into those on a future video. Big favor before we dive into everything is to give this a thumbs up to help with the algorithm. Surprisingly does help. And if you know someone affected by this, then share this with them. Okay, let's

start off naming. We are seeing some name changes. For the basic level, it's now called the new IXG1 rewards credit card. I actually like the Traveler name, but maybe that's just me. The mid-level is arguably the same, the new IGG1 rewards premier credit card. That makes sense. The business is now the new IHG1

rewards business credit card. So, dropping the premiere. A bit less of a mouthful, so that works. The new flagship card is the brand new IHG1 Rewards Premier Select credit card. a little bit confusing even for someone that has a lot of cards. I get the idea of having modifiers and kind of a tiered

naming system which does work for science, but I feel like it's a bit weird for marketing purposes and for human discussion purposes. If anything, I wish they kind of did tell tiers so deluxe executive and club. That would make a bit more sense to me. As much flack as Bonvoy gets, at least it's easy

to parse what cards you're talking about. With that said, for this video, I'm probably going to go with no annual fee, mid-level, and flagship just to keep things easy and more straightforward. Let's run through the updates. For the no annual fee card, it's a bit of a mixed bag. It's either slightly good or very, very bad. It's