I am planning a trip next year to Hawaii and wanted a card that would give me the biggest rewards to use towards my airline tickets. After researching a little I decided on the AAdvantage Red Aviator MasterCard which has a 60,000 points sign up bonus. No minimum spend to receive the SUB and 0% APR on balance transfers for 15 months that’s initiated in the first 45 days of opening the account. While the CITI Bank version has a $3k spend in first 3 months to collect the SUB.
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Irish80
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So I applied last week June 25th. I received a message that the card was under review and would get a decision in 7-10 days. I wasn’t really worried about a denial because I remember the discussion from a few years ago he and I had about Barclays and a possible manual review when you force a EX pull. I decided I wasn’t in a hurry so I’d let them do their thing and sit back and wait on a decision. Yesterday I started to get a little antsy and went online to myFICO to get the backdoor number to call and move the process along but got busy with something else.
Well this morning I woke up to this beautiful email. The email didn’t give me a limit so I decided to go online to the check my status site and I must say I’m pleased with the SL. I guess I’m finished applying for new credit until early next year. Time to let these new flowers 🌺 grow.
Congrats on that very nice SL 
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CONGRATS on your AAdvantage Red Aviator WEMC approval, the AWESOME SL, and Enjoy your SUB!!!
Congrats!!!