[yankeedame]

First-class seats on some airlines are also part of the deal. If the flight is to Europe, they'll even throw in a loaner cell phone....

Heck, if I could qualify for AMEX Titanium I'd have a cell phone. (Cheeze...sort of like getting a free toaster when you open a bank account with $10,000. )

[Vision Thing]

I think that some cellphones don't operate correctly everywhere. In other words, if a cellphone works in the US, it may not work in Europe. So to help alleviate such an inconvenience, AMEX offered a loaner phone to their pampered black-card clientelle.