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AA Citi Advantage email offer

elbori357 — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:23:38 GMT

Got this on my email today.

Change the way you travel with the Citi® / AAdvantage® card!*
Apply now, get the card and earn 50,000 AAdvantage® bonus miles after making $3,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of cardmembership1.
Enjoy these amazing benefits:

First checked bag free for you and up to four traveling companions†
Group 1 boarding2
10% of your redeemed AAdvantage® miles back — up to 10,000 AAdvantage® miles each calendar year3
Earn two AAdvantage® miles per $1 spent on eligible American Airlines purchases including US Airways codeshare flights booked on aa.com4

What's more, the annual card fee of $95 is waived for the first year**!

I am a AA Frequent Flyer member but do not have their card. Due to their increase of price over the last few years and my frequent destinations change I am not flying as I used to on AA. I have around 120k miles left with them. is this card worth getting in my situation or am I better off applying to the Barclay arrival world MC?

Any thoughts are welcome.

Thanks

Re: AA Citi Advantage email offer

B335is — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:10:27 GMT

You might want to look at Executive AAdvantage. 100k miles after $10k spend. I have both cards and after American devalued the award tickets both cards are in sock drawer. I also have Arrival and points post fast but it limits you to travel purchases for best redemption.

Re: AA Citi Advantage email offer

yudeology101 — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:30:24 GMT

@B335is wrote:
You might want to look at Executive AAdvantage. 100k miles after $10k spend. I have both cards and after American devalued the award tickets both cards are in sock drawer. I also have Arrival and points post fast but it limits you to travel purchases for best redemption.

Is the offer still there? I thought it was over at the end of March....Anyways, I think Barclays USAir 40k miles after first purchase sounds much better now that USAir miles can be converted into AA miles...Although i was denied for the AA Executive, I have no clue how i could've spend $10k in 3months even if i was approved.

B335, did you meet your min. spend for the 100k bonus?

Re: AA Citi Advantage email offer

sexy_kitten7 — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:39:24 GMT

I would definitely do the 50k (WFY) or 100k ($450 AF) or both.

Both offers are publicly available for those of you not in the garden

Re: AA Citi Advantage email offer

B335is — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 23:32:03 GMT

@yudeology101 wrote:
@B335is wrote:
You might want to look at Executive AAdvantage. 100k miles after $10k spend. I have both cards and after American devalued the award tickets both cards are in sock drawer. I also have Arrival and points post fast but it limits you to travel purchases for best redemption.
Is the offer still there? I thought it was over at the end of March....Anyways, I think Barclays USAir 40k miles after first purchase sounds much better now that USAir miles can be converted into AA miles...Although i was denied for the AA Executive, I have no clue how i could've spend $10k in 3months even if i was approved.

B335, did you meet your min. spend for the 100k bonus?

The landing is still active, some folks on flyertalk are now on their 3rd Executive AAdvantage card:

Citi Executive Advantage Landing

I only went for the 75k ($7.5 spend) deal. $10k was pushing it for 90 days worth of spend even with my insurance, car registration, rent and anything else I could think of. Yes I met the spend and miles posted within a few days of the statement cut, account is back up around 200k miles

Re: AA Citi Advantage email offer

elbori357 — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:03:24 GMT

B335,
How can you Pay your cars and home with a cc? If I can manage to do it 10k in 3 months wont be to hard to achieve.

Re: AA Citi Advantage email offer

B335is — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:08:23 GMT

Well my car insurance I pre-paid 1 year and got a nice discount, but haven't found a very low cost way to actually make the car payment itself. Registration was a few hundred dollars too. I rent and we have a rent payment online option. It's $10 service fee but they said I can pre pay it (for only 1 service fee!).